Athens Destination Guide

Major Cities Destination Guide

Tower of the Winds In an old Roman marketplace located in Athens, Greece not far from the famed Parthenon stands a structure known as the “Tower of the Winds.” Constructed around 50 BCE, by the Greek architect and astronomer Andronikos of Kyrrhos, it combined sundials, a complicated internal water clock, and a

Burgtheater

Burgtheater The Burgtheater is the theatre where Thomas Bernhard became the top scandal playwright of the German speaking world in the 80's. They are still playing a lot of his stuff (don't miss Heldenplatz) and many other strange plays. Its certainly not the place to go, when you think theatre should

Pergamon Museum (Vorderasiatische Museum im Pergamonmuseum) : Berlin

The Pergamon Museum (in German, Pergamonmuseum) is one of the museums on the Museum Island in Berlin. It was planned by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann and was built over a period from 1910 to 1930. It houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya : Barcelona

Nacional d'Art de Catalunya This Museum stands right on the top of Mont Juic. They've rescued loads of bits of old Roman/Romanesque country churches which were all painted inside and put them back up. No intellectual Zen simplicity here -astonishing bright colours and uncompromising faces, pain, ecstacy and humour, the immediacy

Venetian Hotel and Casino

Venetian Hotel and Casino No expense was spared creating the Venetian Hotel, in fact $2 billion was spent recreating Venice in the Nevada Desert and the result is fairly spectacular. Guests can travel around the hotel in a gondola – real canals run through the hotel – and a replica of

Bibliotheque Nationale

Bibliotheque Nationale The wealth of its 500 year history has made the Bibliothèque nationale de France one of the best-endowed libraries in the world. Over the centuries, whether as a royal, imperial or national institution - depending on the political regime in force - the library has never once failed in

Clarence House : London

Clarence House at London Clarence House, which stands beside St James's Palace, was built between 1825 and 1827 to the designs of John Nash for Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence, who resided there as King William IV from 1830 until 1837. It was the London home of Her Majesty Queen

Sammlung Berggruen - Picasso and seine Zeit : Berlin

Heinz Berggruen’s art collection of classic modern times was given on loan to Berlin twenty years ago. Works by Picasso (70 works of art) and his contemporaries such as Paul Klee, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. (The Berggruen Collection - Picasso and his Times) SMPK - Heinz Bergruens collection

Reichstagsgebäude (The Reichstag) : Berlin

The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed as the place where the Reichstag, the parliament of the German Empire, would convene. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933. It again became the seat of the German parliament in 1999 after a reconstruction led by master architect

Jesuitenkirche

Jesuitenkirche Built in the 17th century this church is a valuable piece of early Baroque architecture, much of the sumptuous interior is a work of Andrea Pozzo, who was invited to Vienna by Leopold I to spearhead the city's artistic revival with an injection of Italian Jesuit style.