Kiel, located on the shores of the bay of the same name, is the capital of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein. Kiel was badly damaged during the bombings in the Second World War, when almost all the historical monuments of the city were destroyed. Most of the buildings, including the Kiel Castle, were rebuilt after the war. The city is also the birthplace of the famous Kiel Week, one of the most important events in the world of sailing. How…
Wiltz is a small town (4,500 inhabitants) north of Luxembourg. Despite its modest size, Wiltz is the capital of the Luxembourgish Ardennes. All the beauty and attractiveness of the lifestyle of the Duchy of Luxembourg can be appreciated by visiting this place. The locals firmly believe that Wiltz is a favorite meeting place for spies and world-class intelligence officers. But at the same time they are friendly, polite and always come to the aid of tourists. According to populationmonster, Wiltz is…
Despite its small size, Savonlinna has something to offer even to bored tourists. The town looks like the whole of Northern Europe in miniature: there is an old castle, cathedrals, cobbled streets, and wooden town houses. The Dome Cathedral The city Dome Cathedral (Pappilankatu, 8) was badly damaged during the war, in the 90s of the last century it was repaired, restored and equipped with a new, 45-voice organ. From June 6 to August 21, the cathedral is open to…
Croatia is a travel destination that is often underestimated, with beautiful nature and impressive national parks. Croatia borders Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro and Italy. Once part of Yugoslavia, it has rightly become the focus of many travelers in recent years. See ANDYEDUCATION for education in Croatia. Capital City Zagreb Size 56,594 km² Resident 4,190,669 Official Language Croatian Currency kuna Time Zone CET+1 Telephone Area Code +385 Fast facts to know Many Croatians also speak German. Hospitality is very…
Attractions Basket sledding in tropical temperatures One of Madeira’s unique means of transport can be tested in Funchal’s villa suburb of Monte: a ride on a basket sled. A wicker sofa on wooden runners is pulled by the carreiros, wicker sled drivers dressed in white, over narrow and steeply sloping asphalt roads. They skilfully maneuver the vehicle for kilometers downhill between walls and gardens to Funchal. You race towards the capital with considerable speed. It’s an experience like no other….
General information about Denmark The official name is the Kingdom of Denmark (Kongeriget Danmark). Located in Northern Europe. The area is 43 thousand km2, the population is 5.4 million people. (2002). The official language is Danish. The capital is Copenhagen (with suburbs over 1.3 million people, 2002). Public holidays – Queen’s Birthday (April 16, 1940), Constitution Day (since June 5, 1849). The monetary unit is the Danish krone. Denmark includes the Faroe Islands and the island of Greenland, which enjoy…
Belek Belek is one of the best hotels in Turkey that meets the new requirements of the time and provides exceptional conditions for a measured and relaxing holiday. Without a doubt, holidays in Belek with children will always be distinguished by increased comfort and a high level of service. The resort is considered an ideal option for a family vacation, since the hotels have all the conditions for children to stay: there are mini-clubs, where specially trained staff are engaged…
Milan is the most important center of Italian and world culture, which contains unique monuments of art, history and architecture, the main of which are concentrated in the central areas of the city: Castello (Castello) – Castello Square and Castello Sforzesco – the legendary fortress, one of the symbols of Milan, the residence of the Dukes of the Milan Sforza rulers, built in the XIV century. Leonardo de Vinci took part in decorating the castle, but only a pergola and…
LANGUAGES The area of the current China, strongly Latinized at the beginning of the 5th century. AD, it became the site, around 450-80, of a massive migration of Alemannic settlers. Their linguistic affirmation not only subtracted a peripheral portion from the Romània, but also made all direct communication, through the novel territory, between the Alpine area and the Alsatian-Lorraine lands cease. Subsequent infiltrations towards the south by Alemannic settlers also severed, starting from the 9th century, any linguistic contact between…
The rise in oil prices of 1979-80 had caught the Italian economy following the adhesion of the lira to the exchange rate agreements of the EMS and the devaluation that had preceded them, while the effort to consolidate production, especially in the sector of medium and large industrial enterprises. Inflation had rapidly started to rise again, exceeding 20% in the course of 1980; the spread of indexation mechanisms and the sharp slowdown in the development rate of the main industrial…
After the scarce evidence available for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, known from sporadic findings made in northern Greece, in Boeotia and in the Peloponnese, a notable increase in the archaeological documentation allows us to distinguish in the Neolithic, later than the Middle Eastern but more ancient of the Balkan, two aspects: that of Crete and that, more recently, of Greece continental. Already in the most ancient phase, the so-called pre-ceramic or aceramic Neolithic (7th millennium BC), the people settled on…
Greek belongs to the Indo-European language family (see Indo-Europeans). That it has more intimate relations with the Italic group than with other languages was believed in other times by illustrious glottologists such as A. Schleicher, Greece Curtius, GI Ascoli. Today this doctrine can be said to be definitively outdated, despite the attempts made by some philologists (W. v. Christ, E. Cocchia) to put it back in honor. It could only be proved true by the agreement of the two linguistic…
German Democratic Republic. – The building interventions carried out during the 1980s in Germany Orientale are part of the current debate of critical rethinking of modernity and in particular of the ideological and cultural paradigms on which the construction of the ” socialist city ” in the 1960s was informed -Seventy. During the seventies, in fact, as part of the vast residential building program launched in 1971 by the 8th Congress of the SED (Unified Socialist Party of Germany) which indicated,…
There is so much to see and do on a trip to Estonia. One of our absolute highlights is definitely the Bärenhütte. Because here you have the unique chance to observe bears undisturbed and up close. You can find out how our first night in the bear hut went in this blog post. Coastal strips and mystical forests As we leave the Altmõisa külalistemaja Guesthouse, it starts to rain. There is no trace of the past hot days. Our trip…
Koblenz, Germany: One of the oldest and most diverse cities in Germany The city of Koblenz is impressive for its exposed location at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle rivers in northern Rhineland-Palatinate. Founded over 2,000 years ago, it is one of the oldest cities in Germany. Although 87% of it was destroyed in the Second World War, the rebuilt city and its surroundings offer a wealth of architectural and cultural monuments that are well worth seeing. Many buildings…
Midsummer Festival Midsummer – A great outdoor family celebration For many Swedes, midsummer is one of the most important and beautiful festivals of the year, practically the summery counterpart to Christmas. The light, the warmth and the short summer are celebrated – mostly with friends or family in the country. By far the largest midsummer celebration takes place in the 6000-inhabitant village of Leksand, which is located on the southern foothills of Lake Siljan. Here, minstrels who come across the…
Briksdalsbreen Norway is famous for its breathtaking natural landscapes. If you are traveling in the south of the country, you cannot avoid the large Jostedalsbreen National Park. In the northern part of the largest glacier on mainland Europe is the Briksdalsbreen glacier. An icy star The 1,200 meter high side arm of the Jostedalsbreen attracts more than 300,000 adventurers and holidaymakers from all over the world every year. Most of them discover the Briksdalsbreen glacier tongue, which is one of…
Norway is located between 57 or 57’31 “and 71 or 11’8″ north latitude and between 4 or 30’13 “and 31 or 10’4″ east longitude. It borders to the north with the Barents Sea, to the northeast with Russia and Finland, to the east with Sweden, to the south with the Skagerrak Strait and to the west with the Atlantic Ocean. Norway belongs to the Scandinavian peninsula. Its 386 958 km 2 extend along a mountain range that covers two thirds of the country. Etymology Norway is officially called Kongeriket Norge, according to the regulations written in…
Spain – key data Area: 505,370 km² (of which land: 498,980 km², water: 6,390 km²) Population: 46.8 million (July 2011 estimate, CIA) Population density: 93 people per km² Population growth: 0.574% per year (2011, CIA) Capital: Madrid (3.3 million residents, 2007) Highest point: Pico de Teide on Tenerife (Canary Islands), 3,718 m, highest point on the Spanish mainland: Mulhacén, 3,482 m Lowest point: Atlantic Ocean, 0 m Form of government: Spain has been a parliamentary monarchy since 1978. The Spanish…
The new century opens with a reformer of the poetic language: François de Malherbe (1555-1628), who blames the poets of the Pléiade for the too many Latin neologisms they had used, for the too many Italian and Spanish borrowings, for not having sufficiently cared the form, invoking a drastic purge of the language and the adoption of precise rules in versification. Maynard (1582-1646) and Racan (1589-1670) immediately listened to it, others opposed it and Boileau (1636-1711) perfected it. Guez de…
1976–1990: With Biermann’s expatriation (1976) and the semi-public reactions to it, the regime’s inability to engage in any intellectual debate became evident. The situation worsened again in 1979 after critical works by GDR authors were published by Western publishers (Heym, “5 Tage im Juni”, 1974; Rolf Schneider, “November”, 1979) and SED cultural officials reacted with new defamation campaigns and eight writers (K. Bartsch, Endler, Loest, K. Poche, K. Schlesinger, Jurek Becker, Dieter Schubert [* 1929, † 2008], M. Stade) wrote an open letter to E. Honecker in which they expressed their concern…
1945–1976: From early on, cultural policy was dominated by the ideological and educational mandate of the SED, which also shaped the confrontation with National Socialism. The works of communist literature created before 1945 set standards, v. a. but the works by left-wing writers that were created in exile and have now been published in the GDR: works by Anna Seghers, A. Zweig, L. Renn, G. Weisenborn, F. Wolf, S. Heym, J. R. Becher, H. Mann among others The majority of these authors took up residence in the Soviet occupation…
Around 1725, a radical change emerged in European music, which composers in Germany only understood, hardly helped to shape. In the face of a new, bourgeois public, musical creation stepped out of its functional ties: comprehensibility through orientation to song and dance, sensuality through melodic beauty, imaginative expressivity and compositional originality became hallmarks of the pre-classical period, which became a specifically German one through the melting of Italian and French influences Embossed received. Representative here are the works of Bach’s…
In relation to the character of its economy, Europe has very intense commercial activities. In the world context it, like North America and Japan, has the role of a large highly industrialized area that imports raw materials, especially from Third World countries, and manufactured goods, from the other two industrialized areas, and exports its products everywhere. industrial products. To this characteristic structural function of European trade are added the exchanges within Europe itself, between states that have different productive capacities…
St. Kilda Archipelago (1986, 2004,2005) The island group St. Kilda with the main island Hirta is located approx. 60 km west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic. The archipelago is one of the western islands of the Outer Hebrides. The main island is Hirta, which has an area of 6.7 km². The islands are the remains of an extinct ring volcano. The first written records of the island are dated to the late Middle Ages. In the 18th century,…
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An evening in Stuttgart is quickly spent exploring local wines. Mersu is number one in Stuttgart Impressive of both its architecture and exhibition, the Mercedes-Benz Museum is the city’s number one attraction. Especially in the dark, the museum’s futuristic look stands out from afar. This destination should not be missed, even if you are no longer a car person or even interested in technology. In an interesting and illustrative way, the museum presents not only the history of the automotive…
Chisinau is the liveliest city in the country Chisinau is the largest city in Moldova. The capital of about 700,000 inhabitants still has a sense of Soviet history in both buildings and public transport. The green center of Chisinau is easy to explore on foot. All major sights such as the Chisinau Arc de Triomphe, the Nativity Cathedral, the Opera, the Parliament and the Presidential Palace can be easily seen in one day. A museum lover should visit the National…
Finland does not turn out to be a travel destination for exotic foreign resorts, as there are plenty of interesting sights and great cities, villages and natural attractions in Finland. Internationally, Finland is especially known for its nature and no wonder, as the nocturnal summer nights of the northern country, dark and snowy winters and wonderful nature sites delight not only foreigners but also Finns. A tourist in Finland can not only take active nature vacations, car trips made by…