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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
[ Albert Einstein ]
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This is the one I won for my weather pictures, it's on my kitchen windowsill catching the sunrise beyond.
It's just under the groups size limit.
Modèle : Céline
Lieux : Le Clos des Roses
Le Clos des Roses est un véritable havre de verdure situé entre Cannes et Saint-Tropez, à seulement 40 minutes de l’aéroport de Nice.
Lieu d'exception, il s’inscrit parfaitement dans la nouvelle ère de l’oenotourisme. Autour de l’activité centrale du vignoble qui s'inscrit dans la riche palette des Côtes de Provence, le Clos des Roses abrite également un petit hôtel et restaurant de charme et propose de la location de salles de réception et séminaires pour l’événementiel.
The coat of arms of the Visconti Family on the wall of the Filarete Tower. In the middle the statue of St. Ambrogio, Patron of the Town.
Prince Edward Island is one of eastern Canada's maritime provinces, off New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The large island is marked by red-sand beaches, lighthouses, and fertile farmland, and is renowned for seafood like lobster and mussels.
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State Rail of Thailand has been investing in train tourism in a big way. On the left is a refurbished KiHa-183 train built in the 1980s for Japan Rail Hokkaido. Seventeen of these were donated to SRT by JR Hokkaido in 2021 (SRT only had to cover shipping cost) and now offer tourist day trips out of Hua Lamphong in Bangkok (thaitrainguide.com).
Next to it is the Royal Blossom, now a luxury tourist train that undertook its first Thai journey in 2024. It comprises refurbished Hamanasu Express cars purchased by SRT from JR Hokkaido in 2017 (thaitrainguide.com).
Laccadives has not really achieved commercial levels in its tourism. One has to be thankful for the policies of the Indian government which prevents consumption of alcohol and presence of too many tourists, lack of fresh water and such. Not necessarily by design but it just happens to work like that.
In the developing world, wherever there are deep waters, obliging children act as divers and showmen to show off their prowess and eagerness and make some money. Laccadives was no different as the kids were having a blast hitting the cool emerald green waters at Agatti from a fishing vessel moored near the jetty.
Unlike other destinations, there was no obligatory solicitation by the participants, just pure fun.
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Sun Voyager Statue on a grey, rainy day. Reykjavik, Iceland. The city is a beautiful place but the rain made things rather chilly. We spent part of the day at Perlan, the Natural History Museum. An exceedingly excellent place with fabulous special exhibitions. An ice Cave at -15 degrees C, Volcano movie and then a new special big screen dive into an erupting volcano. Amazing indeed. The staff were very welcoming, Jack in particular.
Tossa de Mar, La Selva, Girona (Spain).
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I suppose that this one would be the aspect of Tossa when Ava Gardner fell in love with this town and Spain in 1951. The filming of “Pandora and the flying Dutchman” meant the beginning of the tourist boom of the Costa Brava, and then all Spain too.
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Tossa de Mar is a holiday resort located in Catalonia on the Costa Brava, about 95 kilometres north of Barcelona and 100 kilometres south of the French border. It is accessible through Girona airport, some distance north.
There is ample evidence of settlements dating back to the Neolithic period, and it is believed that the area has been continuously populated since that time. Between the 4th century BC and the 1st century BC appeared the first Iberian settlements, followed shortly after by the Romans in the 1st century.
In 966 Tossa is ceded by Count Miró of Barcelona to the Abbey of Ripoll. Some two centuries latter, in 1187 Tossa is granted its charter by the Abbot of Ripoll, coinciding with the building of a church atop Mount Guardí, the remnants of which can still be seen today.
Sometime in the 12th century the mediaeval town was walled off and a castle was built on the highest point of Mt. Guardí, this castle was to be subsequently replaced by a wind mill, and this in turn by a lighthouse which is still operational.
By the year 1500 the first houses were built extra-muros to accommodate population growth. This process was greatly accelerated during the 17th and 18th centuries, shaping an urban configuration which was to remain practically unchanged until the arrival of mass tourism in the 1950s.
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Yo supongo que éste sería el aspecto de Tossa cuando Ava Gardner se enamoró de este pueblo y de España en 1951. El rodaje de la película "Pandora y el Holandés Errante" significó el inicio del boom turístico de la Costa Brava, y del de toda España en consecuencia.
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Tossa de Mar, también llamado Tossa, es un municipio de 5.260 habitantes (INE 2005) perteneciente a la provincia de Gerona, Cataluña (España). Situada en la comarca de La Selva, su ubicación en la Costa Brava hace que sea un destino turístico importante.
En la bahía de Tossa, posee un recinto amurallado románico, la Vila Vella, en un pequeño promontorio en plena playa con siete torres circulares, se estima su origen en el siglo XII para evitar los ataques de piratas. En su interior los restos de una iglesia y el palacio del gobernador del siglo XIV. Cerca del recinto se encuentran los hallazgos arqueológicos de lo que fuera una villa romana del siglo IV, la villa romana de Els Ametllers. Posee un museo municipal dentro del propio recinto con colecciones arqueológicas, de pintura local y extranjera, escultura y vidrio.
En los años 50, Ava Gardner y James Mason llegaron a la pequeña localidad para rodar "Pandora y el holandés errante" y eso le dio cierta fama al pueblo, en cuyo filme se bautizó "Esperanza".
Marc Chagall la bautizó con el nombre de "Paraíso azul" en 1933.
*Copyright © 2012 Lélia Valduga, all rights reserved.
The Cappadocia region is a historical and tourist central Anatolia, Turkey.
The most distinctive features of the region are the unique geological formations, the result of volcanic phenomena and erosion, and its rich historical and cultural heritage, including numerous underground cities and houses and churches carved into the rock, with many of these admirable fresh. In 1985, the Göreme National Park, one of the most famous areas of the region, with 9576 ha, was declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
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