Admiralty Arch

Detail InformationEdit Admiralty Arch is a large office building in London which incorporates an archway providing road and pedestrian access between The Mall, which extends to the South-West, and Trafalgar Square to the North-East. It was designed by Sir Aston Webb, constructed by John Mowlem & Co and completed in 1912. It adjoins the Old […]

Estadio La Peineta

Detail InformationEdit Estadio La Peineta, also known as Estadio de la Comunidad or Estadio Olímpico de Madrid, is a stadium in Madrid, Spain. It is currently under reconstruction in order to become the new stadium of the football club Atlético Madrid. The stadium had a capacity of 20,000 spectators, but a reconstruction for Atletico’s move […]

Palacio Vistalegre

Detail InformationEdit Palacio Vistalegre is an Indoor Arena located in Madrid, Spain. The arena opened in 2000 and can hold up to 15,000 people. It is primarily used for handball and basketball and has been the home arena of REAL Madrid and CB Estudiantes for several years. Now is the home arena of BM Atlético […]

Murallas de Oviedo

Detail InformationEdit The longest and best conserved section is located along the street known as the Calle Paraíso. Other remnants can be seen in the Postigo Alto, along the streets of Sol, Mendizábal, and Jovellanos, and in the Plaza Mayor Square. The medieval walls of Oviedo is the fortification that protected the city of Oviedo […]

Estadio Metropolitano de Madrid

Detail InformationEdit Estadio Metropolitano de Madrid was a multi-use stadium in Madrid, Spain. It was initially used as the stadium of Atlético de Madrid matches before Vicente Calderón Stadium opened in 1966. The stadium held 35,800 people and was built in 1923. HistoryEdit N.A. Must SeeEdit N.A. Visiting TimeEdit N.A. Closed OnEdit N.A. Best Season […]

Centro de Arte y Naturaleza

Detail InformationEdit CDAN, the Beulas Foundation’s Art and Nature Centre, is set in a building in the city of Huesca by architect Rafael Moneo. Since it was inaugurated in January 2006, the centre has aimed to become an international focal point for everything that relates art and nature with contemporary culture. The CDAN has two […]

General Archive Of The Indies

Detail InformationEdit The Archivo General de Indias, housed in the ancient merchants’ exchange of Seville, Spain, the Casa Lonja de Mercaderes, is the repository of extremely valuable archival documents illustrating the history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and the Philippines. The building itself, an unusually serene and Italianate example of Spanish Renaissance architecture, […]

Matsuyama Castle (Iyo)

Detail InformationEdit Matsuyama Castle (Matsuyama-jō) is a flatland-mountain castle that was built in 1603 on Mount Katsuyama, whose height is 132 meters, in Matsuyama city in Ehime Prefecture (the former Iyo Province). It is not to be confused with Bitchū Matsuyama Castle. This castle was originally built by Kato Yoshiaki in 1603. It had a […]

Houses of Parliament

Detail InformationEdit Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, during his stays in London between the years 1900-1904. The paintings have all the same size and viewpoint, Monet’s window at St Thomas’ Hospital overlooking the Thames. They are however painted at different times of the […]

London Olympic Stadium

Detail InformationEdit The London Olympic Stadium will be the centrepiece of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The stadium is located at Marshgate Lane in Stratford in the Lower Lea Valley and has capacity for the Games of approximately 80,000 making it temporarily the third largest stadium in Britain behind Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Stadium. […]