Shopping Shopping in Prague is entertainment in the full sense of the word. Those who are familiar with local shops know that they need to set aside money for this business and allocate time. You won’t get off with a magnet on duty even in a souvenir kiosk – the counters look so fabulous. And…
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Travel to Ukraine
Hospitable Ukraine means rest at resorts and treatment in Truskavets, ski resorts of the Carpathians, sightseeing tours to Poltava, Zaporozhye and luxurious Kyiv. Classy hotels and inexpensive boarding houses, delicious cuisine and the best wines – all about Ukraine: news, map, tours. See other countries beginning with U. Ukraine is close, sunny and inexpensive. The climate,…
Shopping and Eating in Turkey
Shopping in Turkey Shopping in Turkey is not idle walks through fashionable malls, but gambling in the markets, treasure hunts in souvenir shops, fashion experiments in the boutiques of local designers. The most popular among tourists are unique Turkish handmade carpets, jewelry and all kinds of leather goods: sheepskin coats, raincoats and jackets. A nice…
Shopping and Eating in Spain
Shopping and stores Provisions are usually brought from Spain (cheeses, wine, jamon ham) and souvenirs with the symbols of the country (fans, skirts, flamenco shoes). Other popular crafts are wooden caps (hair bands, if anyone doesn’t know) and other wood carvings, as well as clay products – from whistles to sets. Spanish craftswomen weave amazing…
Adler, Russia
Adler is the southernmost resort in Russia, the younger brother of Sochi and a good neighbor of Krasnaya Polyana. Technically, Adler (like the entire Adler district, by which, in fact, Adler is meant) is part of the resort city of Sochi, but let’s consider them as a self-sufficient point on the map, especially since there…
Shopping and Eating in Poland
Shopping and stores The most beautiful souvenirs are sold in Krakow’s Cloth Rows (“Sukennice”) or at the St. Dominica, which takes place in Gdansk every August. At the latter, you can buy gold and silver jewelry with coral and amber, antiques, paintings, carved sculptures, ceramics, original fabrics and clothes, book and musical rarities, and household…
Shopping and Eating in Netherlands
Shopping in Netherlands The main Dutch souvenir are, of course, tulip bulbs. They can be easily found in every city in the country, but they are found in abundance at the flower market in Amsterdam. A bag of 10 bulbs will cost 2-3 EUR, for a wholesale purchase of 5-10 packs – discounts (for example,…
Shopping and Eating in Latvia
Latvia is the heart of the Baltic States: all the best is concentrated here, which this amazing land is rightly proud of. A small country, taken in a dense semicircle by Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and Russia, for a long time remained for Soviet holidaymakers something like “their own abroad”, and today it is still full…
Shopping and Eating in Hungary
Shopping and stores From Hungary it is possible (and even necessary) to bring Tokay wine, “Unicum” – a bitter tonic tincture with herbs, crystal products, embroidery, glazed dishes. Traditional souvenirs are handicrafts, ceramics, dolls in national clothes, hand-painted porcelain from the Herend factory and Zsolnai, halash lace, antiques, Hungarian paprika, goose liver, Pick salami, sweet…
Shopping and Eating in Germany
Shopping in Germany In Germany, it makes sense to buy goods from local manufacturers of clothing, footwear, kitchen utensils, textiles and household items: all this is traditionally of high quality and at an affordable price. Shopaholics will be pleasantly surprised by the abundance of factory outlets – there are more than a thousand of them…
Shopping and Eating in France
Shopping and shops in France France usually brings wine, cheeses, high fashion, perfumes, cosmetics and souvenirs of all kinds, shapes, varieties and sizes. The list is quite obvious, the only question is how to buy all this and, if possible, not go broke? Here are some tips: If you have more money than time, luxury…
Shopping and Eating in Denmark
Shopping in Denmark Shopping in Denmark is a test for the wallet: prices here are an order of magnitude higher than, say, in neighboring Germany. See other countries beginning with D. It makes no sense to buy clothes of world brands: even things of democratic brands like H&M or Vero Moda are expensive, let alone…
Food and Entertainment in Croatia
Croatian cuisine and restaurants In addition to standard European cuisine, many national dishes are prepared in Croatia. These are Dalmatian or Istra “prshut” (dried meat), Pash or Lich cheese, sheep cheese, Slavonian “kulen” (a kind of sausages), the famous Samobor or Zagorsk “cheshnovki” (also sausages). In Dalmatia, on the islands and in Istria, the main…
Entertainment and Holidays in Bulgaria
Entertainment and attractions in Bulgaria Multifaceted Bulgaria is ready to surprise even the most inveterate traveler with its sights – natural resources will reveal to you the incredible beauty of mountains, lakes, vineyards and pink valleys, national parks and forests, architectural monuments will tell you about different eras – from the Byzantines and Romans to…
Shopping and Eating in Austria
Shopping and shops in Austria As souvenirs, Swarovski crystal products, porcelain things, music boxes, miniature figurines of horses and characteristic Austrian bears, bells on ribbons are brought from Austria. And, of course, the famous Viennese sweets. Popular symbols depicting crowned persons (who are very fond of in Austria) and souvenirs with portraits of famous Austrians…
Denmark Fast Facts
Denmark is located in northern Europe and is also the southernmost Scandinavian country. Lying between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, Denmark borders directly on Germany and, separated by water, also on Sweden. As a travel destination, Denmark is perfect for slowing down and offers wonderful nature experiences with its great coastal landscape. See andyeducation.com…
Germany Attractions
Worms South of Mainz in Wonnegau is the old imperial and episcopal city of Worms with the cathedral and numerous other Romanesque buildings. The synagogue in Worms’ Jewish Quarter is the oldest Jewish sacred building in Germany. The legendary treasure of the Nibelungen is said to lie near Worms at the bottom of the Rhine….
Geography of Estonia
General information about Estonia The official name is the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik). Located in the northeast of Europe. The area is 45.2 thousand km2, the population is 1.423 million people. (2001). The official language is Estonian. The capital is Tallinn (500 thousand people, 2001). Public holiday – Independence Day February 24 (1918). The…
Geography of Turkey
Turkey is located between 25°40′ and 44°48′ East longitude and 35°51′ and 42°06′ North latitude. It is washed by the seas – in the north by the Black, in the west by the Aegean, in the south by the Mediterranean. The Black and Aegean Seas are separated from each other by a water system, including…
Yalova, Turkey
History reference. Turkey’s Yalova Thermal Resort (tur. Yalova Kaplıcaları, Eng. Yalova Thermal Resort) is located 2.5 hours drive from Istanbul and has been famous for its hot mineral springs since the times of the Ottoman Empire. The first thermal baths in these parts were built during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Constantine (312-337 AD),…
Sardinia, Italy
Wonderful Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with a special autonomous status within the Italian Republic. An ancient land that keeps the traditions of different civilizations – from the powerful Nuraghes to the Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs and Byzantines. Sardinia delights with its amazing beauty and variety of landscapes, the emerald-crystal sea,…
Serbia Economic Conditions
The Serbian economy has always represented, together with the Croatian and Slovenian ones, an element of strength within the economic structure of the Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. In 1989 the ‘global social product’ of the Serbia represented 36.2% of the federal one; in the same year the per capita income (valued at 2350 dollars),…
Estonia Arts and Architecture
Only from the second half of the 19th century. a native monumental architecture developed in Estonia From the 13th to the 17th century. mainly German influences had been predominant in the country, also thanks to the presence of foreign architects, while from the 18th century. Russian influence was important (Kadriorg palace, designed by N. Michetti…
Switzerland Physical Characteristics
Switzerland (ted. Schweiz; fr. Suisse; Svizra Romansh) State of ‘ Europe Central, extended mainly on the northern slope of the west-central section of the Alpine system. Inland state, landlocked, bordered to the North with Germany, to the East with Austria and Liechtenstein, to the South with Italy and to the West and NW with France. MORPHOLOGY…
The Kingdom of Greece
According to watchtutorials, the London Protocol (1830) gave rise to the Kingdom of Greece, territorially limited between the Gulf of Arta and that of Volos, while Great Britain retained possession of the Ionian islands (ceded to the Greeks only in 1863). The 1832 convention attributed the crown to Otto of Wittelsbach, son of Louis I…
Greece Sculpture Part III
Scopa’s finding of two new copies of the so-called Apollo with the goose, quite fine, in via Cavour in Rome, led to a re-proposal of the problem of attribution to the master of this type, in which the Pothos (personification of desire amoroso) and its critical evaluation. For Leocare we have a new signature found…
Greece Sculpture Part II
A small plastic monument of severe style can also be considered a nice perfume burner with peplophóros found in Delphi. W. Amelung’s reconstruction of the famous Aphrodite Sosandra of Calamioe found interesting confirmation with the discovery in the excavations of Hama on the Orontes of a new copy with the head of the so-called Aspasia type. Of…
Greece Sculpture Part I
For the plastic arts, after the discovery of the small wooden xóana by Palma Montechiaro (see xoanon, XXXV, p. 825), three statuettes of laminated and hammered bronze, one male and two female, came to light in Dreros in Crete. with geometrized and schematized bodies, datable towards the middle of the century. VII a. C., which give a…
Greece Music Part 4
The lira follows the evolution of this system. At first its extension includes two joint tetrachords (lira heptachorde). Each of the strings has its own name deriving from its position on the instrument: ipate (ὑπάτη) means the highest string; paripate (παρυπάτη) closest to highest; licanos (λίχανος) index; month (μέση) mean; trite (τρίτη) third; paranete (παρανήτη)…
Greece Music Part 3
The meeting of a large number of choristers and players in the immense Roman and Alexandrian theaters and amphitheaters does not constitute progress, leading only to an increase in sonority. The only genres that retain any vitality are the hymn, the citarodia, the auletic nómos. But Christianity does not take long to proscribe them, as…