Tag: Europe

  • Hasselt’s Japanese Garden

    Hasselt’s Japanese Garden

    The Hasselt’s Japanese Garden is the largest Japanese Garden in Europe, built in 1985 and opened to the public in 1992 based on a 17th Century model. Spanning across 2 and a half hectares, has around 250 Japanese Cherry Trees. It’s the Perfect place to come and relax, Meditate and experience the Japanese culture. The…

  • Museum of the 20th Century

    Museum of the 20th Century

    Museum of the 20th Century first opened its doors in April 1994, situated in Oostereiland, a peninsula in the harbour of Hoorn

  • Modemuseum Hasselt

    Modemuseum Hasselt

    The Modemuseum Hasselt is a fashion Museum in Hasselt situated in a historical complex of buildings which were built in 1664, The museum first opened its doors to the public in 1989 and had a short period between 1993 and 1995, where restorations and re-design of the museum was needed, and finally reopening on the 2nd…

  • Jenever Museum Hasselt

    Jenever Museum Hasselt

    Jenever Museum is situated in a former monastery farm and rented out to stokers families ( Stellingwerff and Theunissen ) however after 1971 the building was left abandoned and was close to being demolished however after a group of people protested against the demolishing, the building was saved and became of the National Jenever Museum in…

  • Alhambra

    Alhambra

    Alhambra means the red or crimson castle from the Arabic root, this is because of the towers and walls that surround the entire hill of La Sabica, built as a small fortress in 889 AD however the fortress was abandoned until its ruins were rebuilt in the thirteenth century by emir Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar, who…

  • Granada Science Park

    Granada Science Park

    Granada Science Park or in Spanish ‘Parque de las Ciencias’, is a Science Museum which was founded in 1990 with a new motto “A new kind of Museum” and opened to the public in 1995. The Museum holds permanent and temporary exhibitions. Situated only 1.2 miles from the south of the city centre. The Science…

  • El Bañuelo

    El Bañuelo

    The Bañuelo baths are situated in the lower area of a private house in Carrera del Darro, which is at the foot of the Alhambra, The Arab baths is one of the few surviving building that were saved from destruction by the Catholic Monarchs. The Baths have been declared a National Monument and was restored by…

  • Royal Chapel of Granada

    Royal Chapel of Granada

    The Royal Chapel of Granada is situated between the Granada Cathedral and the Church of Sagrario, Built in Isabelline Gothic style,  Were the Catholic Monarchs were buried. The monarchs died before the chapel was finished, and their bodies rested in the convent of the Parador Nacional de Turismo until the Royal Chapel was completed. They chose to be…

  • Glasgow Science Centre

    Glasgow Science Centre

    Glasgow science centre is situated in the Clyde Waterfront Regeneration area, on the south bank of the River Clyde, Opened on the 5th of June 2001 by Queen Elizabeth II, The Science Centre has three main buildings, the Science Hall, Glasgow Tower and an IMAX cinema. The Science Centre was part of an ongoing redevelopment…