One of the most remarkable structures in Lille is La Tour de Lille, the old office building mainly occupied by offices of Credit Lyonnais. The 120m high tower is the main structure over La Gare de Lille-Europe, the important Eurostar and TGV station beneath the tower that serves passengers in the Netherlands, Belgium and UK, as well as some regional trains.
Jean-Marie Duthilleul was the architect of the modernist complex, that was completed in 1994.
More info on La Gare de Lille-Europe on Wikipedia.
A tip for those who will visit Bento Gonçalves – Brazil is doing one of the most beautiful walks leading to St. Peter colony. It is some 13 kilometers of the center.
This route, known as Path of Stone, has 7 km and passes through 28 buildings and mills, boxes of pasta, of looms, from mate and sheep, canteens and chapels, all made in stone and wood. The scenario is very similar to the northern region of Italy.
Besides the beautiful buildings you can also enjoy delicious colonial products such as cheese, salami, preserves, jams, yogurt, pasta, wine, crafts, mate to mate and products made from sheep’s milk.
Check out the photos of the place in this presentation:
For a long time Cape Verde was colony of Portugal, so the Portuguese language. It is a volcanic region, surrounded by sea on all sides. Logical huh? Cape Verde is a group of islands!
Cape Verde has beautiful beaches and offers heat for almost every year. The economy is based on fishing, but this is becoming a thing of the past. Tourism focus turned now!
The infrastructure to receive tourists from all over the world are intesificou, and now the sun is a burning desire to make Cape Verde and the African Caribbean. “
In Pedra de Lume, northeast of the island, there will be a 5 star Resort. In this place, because of extremely salty water, tourists can float up. Furthermore, they can enjoy the benefits of volcanic mud.
There, next to Caraguatatuba, just ahead of the edge of San Sebastian, is the only city-Brazilian archipelago. Islands to be formed by several islets, of course, but Ilhabela has a main island, which takes the name of the city, where you can find many beaches, great forests and, moreover, many waterfalls and trails.
Ilhabela is a very rugged terrain, which makes the peak of St. Sebastian incredible reach 1379 meters in altitude, that an island with only 380km ², slightly lower than that of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis that houses.
The rugged terrain makes the island’s scenery is beautiful and inspiring, inviting both to a relaxation by the beach or next to waterfalls, on the trails and adventure in their walls.
Only 60km from Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Bombinhas is a majestic paradise with 29 beaches, many native forest, trails and place for diving. Bombinhas, in recent years has been one of the municipalities with higher growth in number of tourists, attracted by its good infrastructure and skills.
As the city is a kind of “cable”, a protuberance into the sea, the beach is not lacking. Are miles and miles of beach, even for those who want to be in the best-known as Mariscal, Quatro Ilhas, Canto Grande, juniper and the most exciting of pumps and Bombinhas.
There are controversies about the origin of the curious name of the city: a theory that would be inspired by the noise that is to tread in the sand, rich in quartz crystals, but today is no longer possible to hear it, another option is that is due to the noise made by the waves hitting the beach.
What a wonderful place Ilha Grande! This island, district of Angra dos Reis, is international attraction for its natural beauty and its sparsely populated territory.
Surrounded by beautiful beaches and full of mountains, which reach more than a thousand meters high, is also a place full of trails for good places for walking and climbing, along the beaches and beautiful waterfalls that houses. Learn more about the Big Island in Wikipedia.
Many may not know, but Penedo, a district of the municipality of Itatiaia / RJ, has the largest, if not unique, Finnish colony of Brazil. It started at the end of the 1920s, when Toivo Uuskallio came to the “magic tropics” with his wife Liisa and three more boys, to work on Three Wells Farm, near Volta Redonda.
Uuskallio like both decided that the trip back to Finland to bring a group of people to form a colony in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Thus, in 1928, published the book “Matkalla kohta Tropiikin Taikaa” (In Travel in the direction of the Tropic Magic), about his impressions for the trip and starting a campaign to recruit volunteers and raise funds. The plan worked, and in 1929, Toivo has enough to buy the farm Penedo, in what was then the city of Resende / RJ.
It is estimated that around 300 immigrants arrived in the Finnish colony by the year 1940. They built houses along the Finnish and practiced architecture, basically, an agriculture of subsistence. Today, however, the basis of the district’s economy is tourism. For those who want to visit, there are excellent hotels and lodges there.
Ah, der Schweizer Alpen, the Swiss Alps (which are also Italian and Austrian.) Almost exempt presentation. A chain of mountains of the highest in the world appears in a place that seems to have been purposely placed in one of the most developed of the world, next to some of the most charming cities in Europe, like Milan, Bern, Vienna, Salzburg, the French Riviera .
Yes, all these places are less than 200km from any point of these wonderful mountains, when not in their own mountains. To say, it is obligatory stop for those in Europe?
More photos and slide shows in the great below. Just click on the right side of image to go forward. Good ride!
You may be surprised, but this place with beautiful mountains and beaches paradise shown on slide below is one of the states with higher population density in India, with 32 million people are squeezing in only 39 thousand square kilometers, slightly larger than the state of Alagoas .
However, most of the people of Kerala, a state that has its main activity in agriculture, live in rural areas. This means that there are disproportionately large cities as in other cities in India. The largest city is the metropolitan area of Kochi, which has 1.3 million.
That does not mean that Kerala does not have an important tourist industry. Considered by National Geographic as one of the ten paradises on earth, Kerala is one of the most important tourist destinations of the world, which means that the hotel infrastructure is of good quality.
