The Great Mosque of Cordoba also known as the Mezquita is a Roman Catholic church but it is best known for being a mosque. Construction of the impressive monument was started by Abd ar-Rahman I, the founder of the Umayyad Emirate of Cordoba on a site of an earlier Visigothic church in 784 AD and [...]
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Nesebar is a major seaside resort on the Black Sea 35 miles south from the Sunny Beach, the largest and one of the most popular resorts on the Black Sea. If planning spending your vacations at the Sunny Beach or other Bulgarian Black Sea resort you will not regret if taking time to visit the [...]
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Saint Petersburg, known as Leningrad from 1924 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 is one of the most beautiful cities in Russia. The city located on the Neva River at the head of the Baltic Sea was founded by Tsar Peter I the Great in 1703 and served as capital of the [...]
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