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Madurodam - Den Hague
Madurodam The world famous miniature city Madurodam, which is located within a stone's throw of Amsterdam and the bulb fields, is an excellent place to familiarise with all the surprising features the Netherlands has to offer. The Alkmaar cheese market, the Peace Palace of The Hague, the Royal Palace on the Amsterdam Dam Square, the Cathedral Tower of Utrecht, the canal houses of Amsterdam, and parts of the Delta works, everything Holland is famous for can be found replicated to the smallest detail on a scale of 1:25. All of this is set in beautiful flower gardens.
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Madurodam - Den Hague
Madurodam The world famous miniature city Madurodam, which is located within a stone's throw of Amsterdam and the bulb fields, is an excellent place to familiarise with all the surprising features the Netherlands has to offer. The Alkmaar cheese market, the Peace Palace of The Hague, the Royal Palace on the Amsterdam Dam Square, the Cathedral Tower of Utrecht, the canal houses of Amsterdam, and parts of the Delta works, everything Holland is famous for can be found replicated to the smallest detail on a scale of 1:25. All of this is set in beautiful flower gardens.
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Marie Theresa Platz - Vienna - Austria
Like the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Natural History, the architects Semper and Hasenauer created the New Palace. The original conception was to combine all three buildings plus additional wings and connecting buildings, thus creating an ""Imperial Forum."" This plan was never fully realized. The Museum of Fine Arts ranks among the richest and most important art collections in the world. At the core of the museum's unique Picture Gallery are paintings by Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, D?rer, Raphael, Titian and Velazquez, as well as the most comprehensive collection of Bruegel's paintings in the world.
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Mattias Church - Budapest - Hungary
The church bears the name of its biggest Maecenas, King Matthias, who married twice in this shrine. The cathedral is almost as old as the Royal Palace and has been the venue of several coronation ceremonies. Every king and ?poque left its mark on the building until the Turks occupied Buda in 1541 and converted the temple into a mosque, whitewashing - and thus preserving - its medieval frescos. Matthias Church gained its current form at the turn of the century when a lot of smaller buildings attached to it earlier were pulled down and the church was reconstructed in characteristic neo-Gothic style. In addition to the usual biblical scenes, its frescos tell of the most important events in Hungary's history. The magnificent acoustics make it a popular concert venue.
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Old Town Square - Prague - Czech
The Spanish Synagogue was built in 1868 on the site of the oldest Prague Jewish house of prayer (""the Old School"") in a Moorish style to a design by Vojtech Ignßtz Ullmann. The synagogue has a square ground-plan with a copula above the central area. The gallery is buil on an iron structure. The stucco arabesque and stylised oriental motifs of the interior are also applied on the walls and in the adornment of the doors, balustrades and gallery. The coloured window panes and interior decoration were designed by architects A. Baum and B. Munzberg and completed in 1893. FrantiÜek èkroup, the composer of the Czech national anthem, was the organist here in the years 1836 - 45. The most significant square of historical Prague. It originated in the 12th century and since then witnessed many events. Beside the Old Town Hall and the Church of Our Lady before Tyn the square has several other dominants, the baroque St. Nicholas church (K. I. Dienzenhofer, 1732 - 1735), the rococo Kinsky palace housing the National Gallery graphic collection, the Stone Bell house - a gothic city palace from the 14th century - now the Municipal Gallery concert and exhibition rooms, and the Memorial to Master Jan Hus sculptured by Ladislav Saloun (1915). The very place where the 27 Czech gentlemen were executed on 21 June, 1621, is marked in the square pavement. The Prague merdidian can be seen not far from there.
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Opera House - Stockholm - Sweden
The art of opera first made its appearance in Sweden at the beginning of the 18th century. The first performances were given by visiting theatre companies from abroad, and not until the early 1770s did any truly Swedish opera emerge. In 1771 King Gustaf III dismissed the French opera group that had for some decades been performing at the Bollhuset on the hill by the Royal Castle in Stockholm and founded a Swedish opera company instead. All opera was to be sung in Swedish. By ""importing"" Italian and German composers like Francesco Uttini, Joseph Martin Kraus, Johann Gottlieb Naumann and Abb? Vogler and getting them to compose operas to texts by Swedish poets, the King laid the foundations for a Swedish opera art. Gustavian opera stands out as a concept all of its own in the musical history of Sweden. During Gustaf's reign many great works were written, such as Naumann's Gustaf Wasa to a libretto by Johan Henrik Kellgren (following a concept by Gustaf III himself) and Kraus's Aeneas in Carthage, also to a text by Kellgren.
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Palais Royale - Paris
Palais Royale. Commissioned in 1632 by Cardinal Richelieu as his Palais Cardinal, the Palais Royal, across Rue de Rivoli from the Louvre, became royal when the Cardinal gave it to Louis XIII, a few years before both of them died. In 1784 the buildings enclosing the palace's formal garden became the prototype of a shopping mall; the Revolutions of 1789, 1830, and 1848 all began in that same garden.
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Palais Royale - Paris
Palais Royale. Commissioned in 1632 by Cardinal Richelieu as his Palais Cardinal, the Palais Royal, across Rue de Rivoli from the Louvre, became royal when the Cardinal gave it to Louis XIII, a few years before both of them died. In 1784 the buildings enclosing the palace's formal garden became the prototype of a shopping mall; the Revolutions of 1789, 1830, and 1848 all began in that same garden.
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Penha Chapel - Macau - China
Penha ChapelThe first chapel was founded in 1622 by the crew and passengers of a ship which had narrowly escaped capture by the Dutch. The chapel served as a point of pilgrimage for sailors embarking on a hazardous voyage. The chapel was completely rebuilt, along with the Bishop's Palace in 1837. It is open daily from 9 am to 5:30 pm.
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