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ROME MUSEUMS

editor — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 07:35:00 +0000

ROME MUSEUMS VATICAN MUSEUMS. More or less the content of every art book you’ve ever seen. The Vatican Museums constitute one of the world’s greatest collections of art, with ancient, Renaissance, and modem statues, painting, and papal odds and ends. The museum entrance at V. Vaticano leads to the famous bronze double-helix ramp that climbs to the ticket office. A good place to start a tour is the stellar Museo Pio-Clementino, the world’s greatest collection of antique sculpture. Two slobbering Molossian hounds guard the entrance to the Stanza degli Animali. a marble menagerie that highlights Roman brutality. Among other gems

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SPAIN

editor — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 02:48:00 +0000

Spain, a country of 37.5 million people, sees forty million visitors, mostly other Europeans, each year who contribute $6.5 billion to the Spanish economy. There is more than enough to see and do in Spain. There are castles in Spain, a multitude of churches, shopping, a unique cuisine, bullfights, a long coast on the Mediterranean plus islands off the Mediterranean coast and off the northwest coast of Africa. Nowhere is there a wider and more interesting range of lodging offered than in Spain. At the deluxe end of the scale are the Ritz and Palace hotels in Madrid. Each of

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GREECE

editor — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:36:00 +0000

OFFICIAL NAME: HELLENIC REPUBLIC In the past Greece has attracted many visitors who were unwanted. It has been overrun and ruled at various times by the Persians, the Romans, and in modern times by the Turks. Today’s visitors are welcomed by the tens of thousands, welcomed to Athens and to dozens of places that ring of history Marathon, Thebes, Delphi and Sparta. Greece includes fourteen hundred volcanic islands, two hundred of which are inhabited and are searched out each summer by Northern Europeans and Americans for their climate, beauty, and particular lifestyle. In 1982, Greece had about six million visitors,

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