Notre Dame Cathedral Top Paris Tourist Attractions

Notre-Dame is another one of Paris’ top symbols.  Notre-Dame of Paris is with more than 12 million visitors in 2005, the monument of France and perhaps of Europe most visited, before the Eiffel Tower. The construction, started under the reign of Louis VII by the bishop Maurice de Sully, from 1163 to 1345, where Paris was in the archbishop of Sens. 

Cathedrale Notre-Dame was built in 1163 and finally completed in the 14th century. Its gothic style communicates biblical history to on-seeers. The Cathedrale Notre-Dame dominates the history of Paris. The first settlement arose on the Ile de la Cite making it Paris’ birthplace. The cathedrale is located on the tiny Ile de la Cite. The area was chosen because the surrounding waters provided protection from invading armies.  Napoleon crowned himself emperor here and General de Gaulle gave thanks here when the Germans freed Paris.

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Siesta Beach-Attractions in Florida

Siesta Beach is named of the most stunning beaches found anywhere. At the "Great International White Sand Beach Challenge", Siesta Beach was recognized as having the, "whitest and finest sand in the world." Shallow water depth in the near shore areas together with year round lifeguard protection, make this of the safest most popular beaches in the County.

Amenities:

40 acres of land at this beach

2,400 linear feet of gulf beach frontage

Available for rental: group size picnic shelters

13 beach accesses along Beach Road with limited parking

800 space parking lot

Ball field

Beach wheelchairs

Concessions

Grills

Lifeguards are on duty year round

Pavilion

Playground equipment

Rest rooms

Safety building which includes an information area

Small size picnic shelters

Soccer field

Lighted tennis courts

Tree shaded picnicking

Volleyball courts

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Tower Bridge - Of The Most Famous Tourist London Attractions

Tower Bridge - of the most famous London attractions & over a hundred years elderly, the Tower Bridge with its twin drawbridges, or bascules, each weighing about one,000 tons have been raised more then half a million times since it was built. It takes only 90 seconds for the bascules to be raised with electric motors which replaced the elderly steam engines.

Tower Bridge is of the most ingenious examples of Victorian engineering. The lifting bridge was designed in 1884 to permit giant ships to pass unobstructed along the Thames. It is still raised & lowered or times a day & is as awe-inspiring today as it was when it was first built. The bridge also houses an excellent exhibition about the history & mechanics of the bridge & offers fantastic views of the city from its high-level walkways.

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Queen's House Tourist Attractions London

Queen's House is a building of great interest in its own right. A Palladian mansion, designed by Inigo Jones - imitated in plenty of other houses of the period but never equalled - it is a masterpiece of Classical architecture, notable for its symmetrical proportions, harmoniously contrived detail and finely executed marble floors, wrought-iron ballustrades and carved and painted ceilings. With Greenwich Park as its garden Queen's House 

epitomises the whole art type of royal residences.

The house, begun in 1617, was commissioned by James I as a residence for his spouse, Anne of Denmark, but was abandoned after her death. In 1629 Charles I had it done by Inigo Jones for his spouse, Henrietta Maria. The latter, who had fled in the work of Cromwell's domination, returned to the palace in 1660.

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Blue Mosque-Istanbul Attractions

A Mosque or Blue Mosque with its mighty dome (43m/141ft high, 23.5m/77ft in diameter) and five minarets, built by Sultan Ahmet I in 1609-16. The forecourt, with a pretty fountain in the middle, is surrounded by colonnades roofed with a series of small domes. The inside (72m/235ft by 64m/210ft), in its lightness, spatial effect and color, is of the finest creations of Turkish architecture.

Hobbies & Activities section: Islamic site or artifact collection; Standalone sculpture, statue or fountain

This comes from Iznik ceramics, ceramic-producing areas in Turkey first class. Dominated blue pottery, so that the mosque was nicknamed the Blue Mosque. Sultan Ahmed Mosque interior attractive mosque. The mosque is located in Istanbul, Turkey. Interior of the mosque was decorated with over twenty,000 handmade ceramic with over 50 different designs. There's marble pillars and over 200 stained glass windows with various designs that emit light from the outside with the help of chandeliers. The ostrich egg chandeliers placed to prevent the spider made a nest there.

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Cannon Gate Palace istanbul Tourist Attractions

The Topkapi Sarayi is surrounded by 5km of walls. The series of open courtyards are covered with 50,00 white roses in 1593. The second court enclosed flowerbeds and roses with plane trees and cypresses give shade. In the third court is a collection of fine trees such as magnolias, box, Atlas cedar and Lagerstroemia indica, in the coursework of summer there's scented flowers. The fourth courtyard contains pavilions that are surrounded with flowers, trees and shrubs.

(Local Name: Istanbul - Topkapi Sarayi / Eski Saray) From the Soguk  Cesme Gate in Istanbul they bear half right to the Topkapi Sarayi (Cannon Gate Palace) or Eski Saray (Elderly Palace), the elderly palace-city of the Sultans, built on the Seraglio Point hill, of the five hills of New Rome, on the site of the acropolis and the earliest settlement of Byzantion. This great complex of buildings set in gardens (now open to the public) bounded by battlemented walls and towers, consists of various buildings outside the main precincts (the Archeological Museum, the Mint, the church of Hagia Eirene, etc.) and, beyond these, the Inner Seraglio. Mehmet II built a summer palace here in 1468, and this was enlarged by Sulaeiman

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