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Prague, Praga, Praha ...

the city of gold

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Well, it is known as the most romantic city all over the world. And it is yes !! Praga has its beauty, calmness, quietness which is different from other capital cities in the world. You will smell directly the differences after arriving here.
I started the journey one day after the May day (holy day for labour). By using skyeurope from Bergamo Milano, we arrived around 10 o'clock in the morning in the airport of Prague. From there, we used airport taxi to go to the city center.
Prague has many turistic places as much as Roma, for example. The buiding, castle, churches, bridge are combination of Prague's beauty. Mostly you will see the black old wall with old statue which in some parts, they put gold colour on it, e.g. stick, cross, crown, and so on. St. Vitus catedral is a big and famous church that you have to visit. But, the most important is to cross the Charles bridge. This bridge is the competitor of a bridge in front of the vatican. Along it, the put statues and one of them, the most famous, the the statue of Jesus in His cross. With the background of castle located in the hill, the landview from this point is perfect.

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Moreover, there are still abundant places that you have to visit. The museum with its square where you can breath the Prague wind. The food? just try it. And the price you will not get surprise. I mean not so much expensive for that nice taste and excellent service. So much different with other famous cities such as Roma, Milano, or may be Paris.

Posted by indarto 06.05.2008 10:53 Archived in Tourist Sites | Czech Republic Comments (0)

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Citta di Siena

.. the beauty of city-mountain

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City on the small hill; it is very common in the area of Italy. One of the most famous and also beautiful is Siena in the region of Tuscany. From Perugia you can reach this city by bus or train. Not so expensive. Siena is also famous for the horse race which located in the Piazza del Campo.

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The building is very special, different from the other parts of Italy. It is also a reason that this city actually was built by an advance tribe Etruscans, who also built another city like Luca. You can find the similarity between those two cities. Anyway, in the city, beside the piazza del Campo, you can find a beatiful big church called as Duomo di Siena. Instead of using as the place for praying, they also used it sometimes for concert.
In the back of the castle in Piazza del Campo, you can find a small river where you can see other parts of the city. The structure is nice, almost similar to the Genova seeing from the beach. Just to remind you, spending 20 minutes by sitting or more than 20 minutes is not bad idea. Feel the beauty fresh of Siena and imagine that it will become a place for horce racing!!

Posted by indarto 20.01.2008 10:19 Archived in Tourist Sites | Italy Comments (0)

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Citta' di Perugia

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The capital of Umbria region that has a very nice symbol of the city, griffit. I spent a night here, in this city arriving from Assisi using bus on January 20, 2008. This city has very nice youth hostel which open all days, different from the hostel in Assisi which sometimes they have a period of vacancy.
This is one of the oldest city that Italy has. It was built before the born of Jesus Christ (c.a. 210 BC). As this city is very important (in the middle of Italy), it suffers from any wars as well as a natural disaster, the eruption of mountains. Anyway, some parts are still there and show how old this city is. Perugia is located in the small hill. Don't be surprise that until noon time, you will find that the city covers by fox.

Posted by indarto 20.01.2008 00:54 Archived in Tourist Sites | Italy Comments (1)

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The advanture of Assisi

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.. mist, fox, smoke and whatever the name are could change your day totally different. Those things can be very beautiful but also can be dangerous and make you into a problem. This situation was happened to me when I visited Assisi January 19, 2008 using train. I arrived exactly in the middle of the afternoon. The first place that I visited in the churct Saint Mary of Angels (Santa Maria degli Angeli). It is because the direction to this church is different from the others churches where locate on the hills. Inside the church you can find a small capela, believed as the place where Fransiscan starts. Asisi it self is welknown as the original place of Fransiscan, a group (ordo) in Catholic. This group is famous all over the world as they 'promise' to live in the poverty.
By bus (only one line exsist), you can go to the other churchs located on the hill. At the top, there is catedral Saint Rufino (Santo Rufinus) and Rocca Magiore, a old castle. From this castle, you can create a magic picture of Assisi. Very beautiful with fox covers the below parts of the city.

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The problem comes when we went down to have a Mc Donald near the station. We finished our lunch around 5 o'clock and at that time we would like to find the youth hosted which located in the middle part of the hill. Using the bus, we tried to go there. Unfortunatelly, we made a mistake when we got off the bus. We should reached the next bus stop which near to the hostel. The problem is we could not see anything, everything is white, covered by the fox. To wait another bus would take long time and very cold. We decided to walk try to reach the next bust stop. We got confuse when we found a junction. We could not decide which way is the correct one. Again, totally we could not see anything more that 2 meters. Finally, we found the bus stop and we decided to just wait the bus.
I will never forget this experience where I have to be concern more on the weather and time. I never have experience visiting the mountainous area. So, this one could be the best teacher for me.
back to the city, this city actualy very nice. In the pedestrian, they put the name (also the city, sometimes) on the brick probably the name of the people who join to build the street. As this city is a herritage city by UNESCO, it is really worthwhile to come here to find the adventure of Assisi.

Posted by indarto 19.01.2008 22:42 Archived in Tourist Sites | Italy Comments (0)

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Lago Maggiore

Maggiore lake

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This is the second largest lake in Italy after Garda lake. I have a chance to visit this lake exactly in december 25th, 2007. At that time, this lake is very silent probably due to christmas day. However, this lake is quite big and becoming the border between Piemonte and Lombardi region of Italy.

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To go to this lake, it is not difficult. The best point to go is the city of Stressa which near to the islands in the middle of the lake. There are three islands 'flood' above this lake: Madre, Bella, and Brissago. In these islands, you can see the garden which also consist of many houses and building. Actually, nearby the maggiore lake, there are other beautiful lakes, smaller than maggiore.

Posted by indarto 27.12.2007 14:16 Archived in Tourist Sites | Italy Comments (0)

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