Is it worth vacationing in Greece? According to toppharmacyschools.org, many tourists and tourism professionals are very fond of Greece, but it cannot be said that there are only advantages in resting there – this country also has some disadvantages. Advantages Very...
Balearic Islands The archipelago is located in the western Mediterranean Sea. Its wealth is island resorts with heavenly beaches and excellent infrastructure: Ibiza, Mallorca, Menorca, Fermentera. Among the many resorts in Spain, many tourists often choose the Balearic Islands. ANDYEDUCATION.COM: Introduction...
Beach vacation On the 69 km long Belgian coast you can while away the time with sailing, horseback riding, rowing, sand yachting, fishing, golf and tennis. The beach promenade is closed to traffic. The beach is mostly flat and fine sand...
Excavations have shown the existence of advanced wooden architecture from the 9th to the 12th century. Geometric motifs decorate in various ways bracelets, buckles, necklaces, etc.; noteworthy, for this period, also the woolen fabrics, which attest to a lively sense of...
The island has gradually seen its residents grow (216,628 in 1974; density 2 residents per km 2), given the rather high coefficient of increase (13 ‰ per year). The tendency to live in cities is increasingly pronounced (urban index: 86%), while...
While the sky of Italy was traversed by the sun of Dante’s art, flashes of art plowed through it with varying intensity and duration. They came from the rhymes of the last poets of the new style, among which Cino da Pistoia...
History In order to protect Sweden from invasions by foreign fleets and to put an end to the looting of which cities such as Sigtuna on Lake Mälaren were victims. Under the influence of Magnus Ladulás, Stockholm prospers thanks to its commercial relations with Lubeck. It is...
Slovenia. The Republic of Slovenia is a Central European country and since 2004 a member state of the European Union. It borders Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast and Austria to the north. It has a population of 2,009,000 residents. About 400,000...
According to Pharmacylib, the modern city of Sarajevo was built as a fortress for the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, it has also been the center of international attention on several occasions throughout its history: in 1914 the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria took...
Serene Republic of San Marino or San Marino. It is the second oldest republic in Europe, after the Roman Republic and is the fifth smallest state in the world. With an economy practically based on small agriculture, tourism, commerce and small services, it is one of the nations with one...
The Romanians living in today’s Romania appear from the ethnic point of view as a very mixed people. In the mountainous parts of the country, elements of Alpine and Dinaric races prevail, while in the southern part, in the plains, strong...
Christianity that came from Byzantium was unable to establish a mediation with Western culture, but rather gave rise to the isolation of the country that the Tatar invasion accentuated and that made Russia a country that was always a bit wary...
After the city fire of 1842, which destroyed almost a third of the buildings in the city center, extensive urban changes began. The urban planning activities of F. Schumacher (1909–33) had a formative effect at the beginning of the 20th century. Despite the...
Ullswater The Lake District in the north west of the UK is one of the UK’s most popular tourist destinations. Anyone traveling in the 19 hectare national park in England should definitely make a detour to Ullswater. The second largest lake...
Take a tour of France and enjoy a vacation in the land of Napoleon and the Sun King Louis XIV! The numerous sights of the country include the capital Paris with the Eiffel Tower as a landmark, the Notre Dame, the...
Winter sports enthusiasts should visit Slovakia between December and March. Summer vacationers particularly like to come in the warm months of July and August. But June and September in Slovakia are also attractive: it is warm, the rainfall is not too high...
The state is made up of two historical regions, Bosnia and Herzegovina, linked by a common thread. Both – before assuming these denominations that date back to the Middle Ages – belonged to the Roman province of Dalmatia, were included in...
CINEMA The pioneer was Vasil Gendov, an amateur who in 1910 filmed and played The Gallant Bulgarian. For decades the production remained temporary and sporadic, in a country without equipment, with the few cinemas powered by foreign films; yet Gendov continued until...
CULTURE Due to its geographical position, Bulgaria has constantly acted as a bridge between the Western, Balkan and Orthodox world, and the Eastern, Islamic and, once, Ottoman world. Even if the Bulgarian culture has always been considered similar to the Serbian...
In the 1994 elections, the PSB secretary Jan Videnov was elected prime minister and in January 1995 the PSB formed a three-party coalition with the electoral partners, led by its leader Videnov who, however, did not prove capable of resolving the...
The defeat forced Ferdinand to abdicate in favor of his son Boris III. In the twenty years between the two wars, Bulgaria had a politically agitated internal life: initially (1918-1923) governed by an alliance between the Agrarian Party of A. Stambolijski...
The Bulgarian hordes appeared as early as the 10th century. VI in the area crossed by the lower course of the Danube, but it was only with the khān Asparuch that they settled definitively in the territories between the river and...
TRADITIONS According to aparentingblog, the rich heritage of traditional songs and dances that formed the soul of Croatian folklore is performed by numerous professional groups and is no longer closely linked, as indeed everywhere in Europe, to the expression of local...
CULTURE Among the countries of the Balkan area that in the twentieth century were part of the socialist bloc, Croatia is the richest in contrasts: its culture is both that of the Dalmatian coast, Catholic and historically close to Italy and...
ARTS In the coastal regions of Istria and Dalmatia, today mostly belonging to the Croatian Republic, traces of Greek (Nesatius) and above all Roman settlements are still preserved, among which Pula and Split are particularly noteworthy. This territory was later part...
The Croatian-Muslim conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a veritable war within the war, ended, at least officially, with the agreement signed in March 1994 for the formation of a Croatian-Muslim federation opposed to the Bosnian Serbs. The Croatian government therefore undertook...
Inhabited by the Illyrians and colonized by the Greeks, the region was part of Pannonia in Roman times and in 356, after being provisionally subdued by the Ostrogoths, it was annexed by Justinian to Byzantium. Conquered by the Avars (568), it...
Geographically located in Asia, in the easternmost bend of the Mediterranean off the Turkish and Syrian coasts (from which it is only 65 and 86 km away respectively), the island of Cyprus has undergone the influence of the numerous civilizations that...
CULTURE Cyprus has been the subject of various colonizations and dominations over the centuries: Cretans, Phoenicians, Greeks, Persians, Romans, Arabs, Byzantines, Venetians, Ottomans and English have followed one another on its territory, leaving more or less profound marks in the artistic,...
The island of Cyprus represented from the earliest times an important economic link between the Asian world, towards which it naturally gravitated, and the Greek West. Active center already in the Eneolithic age, during the second millennium it was politically attracted...
At the end of 1963 a real civil war broke out between the Greeks and Turks (on the initiative of the former). The UN in February 1964 decided to send its own emergency forces (UNFICYP), with little success. The coup d’état...
TRADITIONS From the point of view of traditions, Cyprus appears as a survival island of the centuries-old contact between Turks and Greeks, merged into a typical Mediterranean culture in which Venetian and Muslim contributions converged. One of the most evident and...
The Czech Republic is made up of the two historical-geographical regions of Bohemia and Moravia, the first, to the W, more extensive and populated, in which the capital rises, surrounded by hills and crossed by the Elbe; the second, to the...
CULTURE Prague is undoubtedly not only the political and economic, but also the cultural center of the country. The city has an architectural heritage dating back to many eras and styles, but mainly attributable to that moment of the fifteenth century...
From 1870 the current of the májovci was overcome on the one hand by young people grouped around the nationalist almanac Ruch (Movement) and on the other by the lumírovci (from the name of their magazine Lumír) who hoped for an expansion of the Czech literary horizon through...
The origins of Czech literature date back to Cyril and Methodius (9th century), who were the creators of the first Slavic alphabet and the first authors of works written in Paleoslav (translation of the Holy Scriptures). But in the century. X...
Following the conversion of the principality of Bohemia to Christianity (845), which marked the beginning of the region’s approach to Latin culture, the first stone churches of the Carolingian type were built in Bohemia (Rotonda di S. Wenceslao in the castle...
ECONOMY: GENERAL INFORMATION A country with strong agricultural traditions, Bulgaria only entered the area of industrialized countries in 1970, when for the first time the contribution of industry to the formation of national income reached 50% – a share that increased...
Population Denmark is a country of ancient human settlement, of which there are conspicuous traces on the territory, dating back to the Neolithic age. Already in Roman times the population, devoted to agriculture, was organized in villages that will remain key...
