Showing posts with label Unesco World Heritage Site. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unesco World Heritage Site. Show all posts

Monday, October 8, 2012

Sunday in Quedlinburg

Now I stay for 3 weeks in Magdeburg, Germany for study. This saturdy was rainy but then arriver nice sunny sunday, so It was great day for some trip. I decided to visit small but beautiful and famouse antique town Quedlinburg. It's about 70 km (1 hour by train) from Magdeburg and it's UNESCO World heritage site. There are thousands of old houses in the ols town and a castle on the mountain. It's one of the best-preserved medieval and renaissance towns in Europe, having escaped major damage in World War II.

History of Quedlinburg goes back up to the 10th century!  Quitilingaburg is first mentioned in 922 in an official document of Henry I (the Fowler), who was elected German King in 919. 

Enough about history, I want to show you photos! Golden fall and good weather are best ingridients to make good photos!











Monday, May 7, 2012

Reggia di Caserta - Royal Palace of Caserta


Reggia di Caserta is situated near Naples in southern Italy. It is a former royal residence constructed for the Bourbon kings of Naples. It's is Italy's answer to Versailles. 
It was the largest palace and one of the largest buildings erected in Europe during the 18th century and now it’s Unesco World Heritage Site. This massive palace and park was built by the architect  Luigi Vanvitelli.
The real gem of Caserta, though, is the palace's garden. For visit the garden we took this carriage because area of the garden is 120 ha and contain 40 ha of wild forest. 


The Palace is already far away:


The Palace still farther:

Groups of sculptures:



The main axis is over 3 km (2 miles) in length  to end in the Grande Cascata, or Great Waterfall. 



This carriage got us to last cascade and we returned afoot. It was surprise for me seeing so many people making picnic in the glades of the garden. It was because entrance 1 may was 1 euro instead of 9.
Then we gone to visit palace. Palace has 1,200 rooms.


What struck me most - they were soffits.

 

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