Showing posts with label capital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capital. Show all posts

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful and most visited cities in Scotland. It is located in the south of the Lothian Firth of Forth. It is the great economic, political and capital city in Scotland. Its total population is 487.500 inhabitants. According to statistics, Edinburgh is the seventh most populous city in the UK and second in Scotland.

Edinburgh is also home to the national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. Later in this article you can see some photos of one of the most beautiful cities in Scotland Edinburgh. These awesome photos will be your breath away

St Andrew Square

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Barclay Viewforth Church, Tollcross

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Edinburgh Castle

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St. Giles Cathedral

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Edinburgh is a city with a rich history and culture. There you will find many historic buildings, including Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood Palace, the churches of St. Giles, and Greyfriars Canongate, and visit the extensive Georgian New Town in the 18th century. The Old and New Town of Edinburgh are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Stormy Calton Hill

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Awesome Street in Edinburgh

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St Giles Cathedral, High Street

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Old College Quadrangle, Edinburgh University

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Riga is the capital and one of the major economic and most beautiful city in Latvia. Total area of ​​Riga is 117.4 square miles (304 sq km) with a total population of 703 260 inhabitants. Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states. The town lies on the Gulf of Riga, at the mouth of the Daugava. The city is the Cultural Capital of Europe in 2014, Riga is a perfect destination for lovers of old buildings, amazing architecture, beautiful squares, delicious traditional food, etc. Below are some beautiful pictures of Riga see that gonna make you will want to visit Riga one day end in its beauty to enjoy.

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When you arrive here, you will not want to leave, to lose, in bars with candles or the cobbled streets with covered floodlight snow and illuminated by sunlight. Riga manages his sweet-looking toy city fit with glittering nightlife and exceptional restaurants.

above the roofs of Riga

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Art Nouveau / Art Nouveau

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Train Bridge

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Less than half of the citizens of Riga ethnic Latvians (41.2 % last measurement), with Russia accounting for 43.7% of the population. Although Latvians are a minority in their own capital to the prevailing ethnic harmony, soizmeshani Russian and Latvian shops

Comms Tower

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Old City of Riga

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With its lush beauty, timeless elegance and restless fusion of old and new, Rīga has a charm almost as powerful as brandy Riga Black Balsams liquor after it was famous.

Blackheads

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The old town is perhaps the UNESCO World Heritage, but this town like a fairy tale, who once opposed him to Paris with his romance and therefore is it as "Paris of the East", is so fast that the residents of Riga UNESCO warned that, by the number of flashes hotels and business centers, which is rapidly expanding to develop to revoke the status of protection.

Riga Towers

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