Barcelona Destination Guide

Major Cities Destination Guide

Rembrandt House The 17th century house in which Rembrandt lived and worked from 1639 till 1658 is today still to be found in the Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam. The house in which his son titus was born and his wife Saskia prematurely died is also the place where he painted and made

Plaça de Sant Just : Barcelona

Plaça de Sant Just Excellent example (with its Gothic fountain and Palau Moixó) of the old character of Barcelona. address: End of C Hercules

Musée de l'Orangerie

Musée de l'Orangerie This museum in the Tuilleries Gardens has some important collections but its principal claim to fame is possession of four huge paintings of water lilies by Claude Monet. The history is explained on http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/orangerie/musee.html Hours [closed Tuesday] 09.45-15.15 url: www.paris.org address: Place de la

Allard Pierson Museum : Amsterdam

Allard Pierson Museum Good museum of Antiquities, collections of Egyptina, Etruskan, and Near Eastern artefacts. An important part of the collection was donated from the private collection of the Royal family. The museum is located in an old Bank Building dating from the mid 19th century. Jerome: It's a great museum

Noorderkerk : Amsterdam

Noorderkerk At the northernmost end of the Jordaan, the Noorderkerk is an impressive building, overlooking the Noordermarkt. In 1620 an important decision was made. The northern part of the Jordaan area was to have a church of its own. The Westerkerk, proved too far away in more sense than one. Hendrick de

Musikinstrumentenmuseum (Museum of musical instruments) : Berlin

Museum of Musical Instruments A museum of musical instruments is a museum in that music instruments to be issued. Here mostly distinctive between collections with non-European exhibits and such, which are concerned with the history of the classical-European instruments. In addition, many institutes accommodate exhibitions of both areas. However sometimes many

St. Nicolaaskerk : Amsterdam

St. Nicolaaskerk The new church of St. Nicholas is among the better known of the new Amsterdam churches. The tall and spacious building occupies a prominent place in the city centre, opposite the Central Station and is a rare example of the neo-Baroque style. Most new Roman Catholic Churches, in Holland

Museumsinsel (Museum Island) : Berlin

Museum Island (or, in German, Museumsinsel) in Berlin, Germany, is the name of the northern half of an island in the Spree river, in the center of the city. The island received its name for several internationally renowned museums that are now occupying all of the island's northern half (originally a

Ghirardelli Square

Ghirardelli Square An old red brick building, a city-block large, was the site of the Ghirardelli chocolate factory in the late 1890s. The company flourished in that location (having done well earlier at their Jackson Square location - still standing since the 1850s surviving the 1906 earthquake). In the 1960s the

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