A small canal in Venice, Italy

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Panorámica de la Laguna de los 3 con el Cerro Fitz Roy y el Poincenot de fondo.

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The church island at Lake Bled with a cloudy Bled Castle in the background

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Taormina is a small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century.

The area around Taormina was inhabited by the Siculi even before the Greeks arrived on the Sicilian coast in 734 BC to found a town called Naxos. The theory that Tauromenion was founded by colonists from Naxos is confirmed by Strabo and other ancient writers.

The present town of Taormina occupies the ancient site, on a lofty hill which forms the last projecting point of the mountain ridge that extends along the coast from Cape Pelorus to this point. The site of the old town is about 250 metres (820 ft) above the sea, while a very steep and almost isolated rock, crowned by a Saracen castle, rises about 150 metres (490 ft) higher: this is undoubtedly the site of the ancient Arx or citadel, the inaccessible position of which is repeatedly alluded to by ancient writers. Portions of the ancient walls may be traced at intervals all round the brow of the hill, the whole of the summit of which was evidently occupied by the ancient city. Numerous fragments of ancient buildings are scattered over its whole surface, including extensive reservoirs of water, sepulchres, tesselated pavements, etc., and the remains of a spacious edifice, commonly called a Naumachia, but the real purpose of which it is difficult to determine.

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Vranov nad Dyjí is a market town on the Dyje (Thaya) river in 3 km north of the Austrian border. While there exists a written record about a castle at Vranov location dated in 1100, the nearby settlement was first mentioned as a village as late as in 1323. The Lichtenburg noble family took control of the castle and town during the 15th century, followed by the Althann nobles. Between 1687 and 1695 a grand oval hall was built, known as ‘the Hall of the Ancestors’, it became a dominant feature of Vranov. To complement the Hall of the Ancestors with a spiritual element, the Chapel of the Holy Trinity was built. It was richly decorated and incorporated an Althann family vault. In the 18th centuties more grand buildings were constructed, completing the transformation of the original castle complex into an up-to-date Baroque chateau.

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