Copacabana Beach, Brazil
Filed Under (South America) by admin on 15-11-2008
Tagged Under : beach, brazil, South America

Copacabana is often called the most famous beach. It stretches more than 3 miles (4.5 kilometers) to a residential area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Landscape impressive as the granite rocks around the entrance to the bay. The city offers great opportunities to meet, in shopping malls, cinemas, fashion and jewelry shops, as well as regulating the Horde restaurants and nightclubs. The summer season lasts from December to February in the atmosphere about 77 F (25 C) to 95 F (35 C). Beach also offers a parade of speech is so beautiful bodies and beautiful face and the game of tennis and paddle.

Ponte Vecchio is a medieval bridge over the River Arno. Indeed, it is much more than a bridge - this street markets, as well as a milestone in Florence, Italy.
Ponte Vecchio that we know today, was in 1345 by Taddeo Gaddi after more than age was destroyed in the floods. To finance the bridge, many along the street were rented to traders, especially butchers and tanners to Hok their products.
In 1565, Duke Cosimo I de Medici ordered the architect Giorgio Vasari described the construction of the roof of the corridor. Shortly thereafter, jewelers, silversmiths and traders of luxury prompted butcher of the Ponte Vecchio. Centuries of random additions gave the bridge of the distinctive, irregular appearance today.
During World War II, companies, many of the floods, the bridges facing the most serious threat: German bombers were to blow up a bridge in Florence. There is a direct order from Hitler that spared Ponte Vecchio from certain destruction.
This suggests that the word “bankruptcy” came from Ponte Vecchio. If the trader does not pay its debts, the table (the “Bank”) to sell its product has been broken ( “art”) by soldiers. You do not have images ( “bancorotto”), means that the seller is in bankruptcy.
The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
Filed Under (Middle East) by admin on 11-11-2008
Tagged Under : islamic, jerusalem, Middle East, mosque
Dome of the Rock (Arabic:, translit.: Qubbat As-Sakhrah, translit.: Kipat Hasela, Turkish: Kubbetüs Sahra) is a notable Islamic holy site of pilgrimage for Muslims as the word Masjid al-Aqsa or the Noble Sanctuary (al - Haram Al-Qudsi al-Sharif) - that Jews and Christians call Har ha-Bayit or the Temple Mount - which remains one of the most famous monuments in Jerusalem. It was 687 to 691 of 9 Caliph ‘Abd al-Malik. Very often mistakingly called the Mosque of Omar, the mosque Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab, living in close proximity to the Church of the Holy grave.












