Among the tourists buzz, Orlando is renown with great theme parks, one of them is the famous Disney World. Not only have some theme parks, Orlando vacations also offer adventures in the world showcase in EPCOT, Typhoon Lagoon, Animal Kingdom, Blizzard Beach, Sea World, Discovery Cove, Pleasure Island, and of course Island of Adventure.
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The influential cathedral canons of medieval Paris had the reputation of being greedy for power and possessions, but Canon Robert de Sorbon, Louis IX’s confessor, seems to have been an exception. In 1257, with the king’s support, he founded a college (known after its founder as the Sorbonne) in which poor students of theology could […]

The exotic Lisbon (or Lisboa, in Portuguese) is actually another hidden treasure waiting to be explored. The city is full of world’s inheritances, from Neolithic era, Roman Empire, Moorish rule, to the Portuguese Empire. The inheritances obviously explaining the past time glories to the modern civilization; Dolmens, Menhirs, several temples, Romans Theater, castles, towers, monasteries, […]

One of the largest and best known parks in Paris is the Tuileries (Jardin des Tuileries). When Catherine de Médicis had a palace built in 1563 on a site extending along the whole length of what is now Avenue du General-Lemonnier, close to the Louvre (see entry), she named it the Tuileries after the tile-works […]