Russia

Russia, officially the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area (1,265,267 square kilometres (488,522 sq mi)) extending across eleven time zones. Russia shares land borders with Norway and Finland to the northwest; Estonia, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine to the west, as well as Lithuania and Poland (with Kaliningrad Oblast); Georgia and Azerbaijan to the southwest; Kazakhstan and Mongolia to the south; China and North Korea to the southeast — as well as sharing maritime boundaries with Japan and the United States. Russia also shares borders with South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Russia

Swallow's Nest

The Swallow's Nest is built on a steep cliff of Ai-Todor Cape. The structure resembles a medieval knight's castle like the Portuguese Belem Tower or Villa Miramare near Trieste, Italy. "Swallow's Nest" has become a kind of em... read more

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Russia

Nikita Botanical Garden

The world-famous Nikitsky Botanical Garden is the main botanical attraction of Crimea. Its history goes back more than two hundred years. Now there is still scientific work, and tourists can simply walk around its vast territory, enjoying the vari... read more

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Russia

Museum of the History of the Champagne Winery

The Novy Svet champagne factory was founded in 1878 by Prince L.S. Golitsyn, the founder of Russian industrial winemaking. Although sparkling wines of the type champagne had been produced in the Crimea long before Golitsyn, it was only an imitatio... read more

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Novy Svet Landscape Preserve

The Novy Svet Landscape Reserve was created to preserve unique groves of relict Sudak pine trees and a natural park of juniper trees.

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Egypt

Khan Al-Khalili Market

Khan-Al-Khalili is a large market in the Muslim neighbourhood of Cairo, one of the city's striking landmarks. The square that Khan-Al-Khalili occupies was originally the site of the Saffron Tomb mausoleum, the burial place of the Fatimid caliphs. Emir Al-Khalili ordered the destruction of the Fatimid cemetery in 1382 in order to build a large caravanserai. At that time, this was the central... read more

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Israel

Church of the Visitation

The Catholic Church of the Visitation in the Jerusalem suburb of Ein Karem is named after one of the most beautiful Gospel episodes - Mary's visit to Elizabeth.

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Greece

Ancient Agora

In the heart of Athens, northwest of the Acropolis, lie the ruins of the Ancient Agora. During the period of ancient Greece (from about the beginning of the 6th century BC) it was the political, financial, administrative, cultural and religious ce... read more

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