It may be the smallest national park in the whole of New Zealand but don’t let the size fool you in to thinking any less about it. Abel Tasman National Park rakes in all the brownie points because of the mix of adventure and relaxation. It is a coastal paradise that beckons you to indulge in the stress free beach life. Lounge by the velvety sands, try your hand at snorkelling, kayaking, cruise ...

Collections are showcased on the lower floors in the Silver Museum, the Arms Museum, the Royal Family Museum, and the Presidential Gifts Museum, and the Historical Documents Museum was added in 2006. The palace, designed in the 1800s by a French architect

If you’re a Beatles fan, no trip to London is complete without visiting Abbey Road. Every year, countless fans make the pilgrimage to Abbey Road’s famous zebra crossing that’s located at the southern-most point of the road in St John’s Wood. It is here where the Beatles had their famous photo shoot which went on to grace the cover of the band’s legendary eleventh studio album Abbey Road in ...

The Convent of St Gall, a perfect example of a great Carolingian monastery, was, from the 8th century to its secularization in 1805, one of the most important in Europe. Its library is one of the richest and oldest in the world and contains precious manuscripts such as the earliest-known architectural plan drawn on parchment. From 1755 to 1768, the conventual area was rebuilt in Baroque style. ...

Pretty expensive to get in but an impressive botanical garden with a range of sub-tropical plants growing healthily outdoors. You will wonder just how you can possibly still be in England.

The building of the Minsk Town Hall was built in the first half of the 16th century, and it was made of wood. Archaeologists never found its remains, but it was located in the same place where the City Hall now stands - on Freedom Square, the former Cathedral Square.

Area: 51,439999 sq. km., volume: 1335,6 cubic meters, depth avg: 26 m, shore length: 94,139999 m, res time: 648, elevation: 153

Национальная библиотека Белоруссии является одним из крупнейших хранилищ русскоязычной литературы (по данным 2011-го года, почти 9 млн единиц печатной продукции), но более известна необычным зданием, открытым в 2006-м году на окраине Минска. Редкий пример современной белорусской архитектуры, здание имеет форму правильного многогранника (напоминает огромный, хорошо огранённый кристалл) и ровную ...

Of the numerous churches that once existed in Slutsk, only one has survived to this day - Mikhailovskaya. This is a wooden church, built in the second half of the 18th century, formerly a parish church, and now the cathedral of the newly formed Slutsk diocese.

Installed in the upper part of a high-rise building in the city center in the Shatilki microdistrict. The chime mechanism weighs 87 kg, the hour hand weighs 12 kg with a length of 150 cm, and the minute hand weighs 17 kg with a length of 190 cm. The numerals are 85 cm high.

Посвящена воинам, удостоенным звания Героя Советского Союза и погибшим при освобождении Светлогорского района в годы Великой Отечественной войны; на аллее установлены девять бронзовых бюстов героев, среди которых уроженцы разных регионов бывшего СССР — России, Украины, Грузии, Татарстана; это место памяти и уважения к подвигу освободителей, ставшее одной из ключевых достопримечательностей город...

In the historic building of the brewery, launched back in 1876. The museum's exhibitions offer a large number of activities and a wide variety of exhibits, including interactive ones. Visitors will get acquainted with the history of the beer label, glass, and see beer bottles from the Nosel Pupko plant of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. The museum staff will tell you the history of brewin...

На площади Победы в Минске установлен тридцативосьмиметровый гранитный обелиск, увенчанный трехметровым изображением ордена Победы. На постаменте у основания обелиска - священный меч Победы. Обелиск на площади Победы в Минске был воздвигнут 4 июля 1954 года в память о советских солдатах и партизанах времен Великой Отечественной войны.

An old cemetery with many burials from the 19th century. The most famous of them is the Zaborsky tomb. This is an entire chapel, built on the edge of the hill either in 1858, or even earlier - in the first half of the 19th century.

Композиция из двух старых водонапорных башен, известных в народе под ласковыми именами Кася и Бася, украшает перспективу уходящей на мост через Неман железной дороги. Башни хорошо смотрятся от автовокзала и с левого берега Немана. Одна из них построена в 1890-е гг., вторая - перед Первой Мировой войной.

Novogrudok Castle was one of the best fortresses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was built somewhat differently than German castles in the Baltic states: at first the fortress was wooden, in the second half of the 12th century they built one stone tower surrounded by wooden walls, and only at the turn of the 14th-15th centuries. Wood was completely abandoned, using instead not only stone, b...

French physician, botanist and biologist Jean Emmanuel Gilibert arrived in Grodno in the 1770s. and the first thing he did was arrange a botanical garden in the city, on the site of which Gilibert Park is now located. In the park there are the already mentioned theater and a stone lyamus, not far from which is the building of a medical school (20 Eliza Ozheshko St.), formerly a medical academy....