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BERLIN
 Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million in its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city and after London second largest in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan area, comprising 5 million people from over 180 nations. Berlin was successively the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1918), the German Empire (1871-1918), the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the Third Reich (1933-1945). After the Second World War, the city was divided; East Berlin became the capital of East Germany while West Berlin became a Western enclave, surrounded by the Berlin Wall from 1961-1989. Following the reunification of Germany in 1990, the city regained its status as the capital of all Germany.
Berlin is a major center in European politics, culture, media and science. The metropolis is home to world-renowned universities, research institutes, sporting events, orchestras, museums and personalities.
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MADRID
Madrid is old maor town placed between mountains of Gauderrama and valley Manzanares. Modest provincial town get more significance in 1561. when Phillip II announced his decision to move Royal Family in Madrid and it attracts people from all over the country to town. At the beginning of XVII century after Royal Palace Buen Retiro and monumental Plaze Mayor is built Madrid gets features of capitol city. Plaze Mayor was main place for citizens gathering, bullfights, circus shows and public executions.
Today the capital of Spain, located in heart of the peninsula and right in the center of the Castillian plain 646 meters above sea level, has a population of over three million. A cosmopolitan city, a business center, headquarters for the Public Administration, Government, Spanish Parliament and the home of the Spanish Royal Family, Madrid also plays a major role in both the banking and industrial sectors. Most of its industry is located in the Southern fringe of the city, where important textile, food and metal working factories are clustered. Madrid is characterized by intense cultural and artistic activity and a very lively nightlife.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Joseph Bonaparte undertook the reform of Puerta del Sol and vicinity. The commercial street known as the Gran Via was built as an east-west avenue at the start of the century. In the 1950's the north-south boulevard called Paseo de la Castellana was extended and modern buildings were erected, housing the major financial institutions. Remainings of the distant past are mainly the Baroque and neoclassical structures of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as the Plaza Mayor (Main Square), the Palacio Real (Royal Palace) but there is also Muslim part of town called "moreria" oldest part of city from distant past. While Madrid possesses a modern infrastructure, it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighborhoods and streets. Its landmarks include the huge Royal Palace of Madrid; the Teatro Real (Royal theatre) with its restored 1850 Opera House; the Buen Retiro park, founded in 1631; the imposing 19th century National Library building (founded in 1712) containing some of Spain's historical archives; an archaeological museum of international raputation; and three superb art museums: Prado Museum, which hosts one of the finest art collections in the world, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, a museum of modern art, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, housed in the renovated Villahermosa Palace.
Symbol of Madrid is so called "El Oso y el Madrono" which means "Bear and some tree"...
TRENTO
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DELNICE
 Gorski kotar, with its treasure of untouched natural beauties and plentiful mountain possibilities, is one of the most attractive continental areas in Europe. Here you can still see a wolf, a wild boar and a deer in their natural habitat, together with a bear, a chamois and a lynx, wildlife in danger to be exterminated in other parts of the world. So evergreen and leaf forests are appropriate habitat for numerous expontents of flore and faune, and peace and harmony are disturbed only with singing of plentiful bird sorts.
For admirers of fresh, strenghtning nature, winter sports, mount climbing, hunt, fish hunt, walkings, or simply those who are desirous to runaway from urban enviroments, Gorski kotar offers something for everyone.
Almost a hundred years long tradition of excursion, health, sports and other types of tourism with natural particularities and climate characteristics, make Delnice a center of mountain tourism.
Today, the offer of Delnice is all-purpose: hotels, sport objects, hunting areas. In bottom of Japlenski vrh are sports objects (football, basketball, bowling alley, bowls) and two very quality ski jump objects.
Nearby Delnice is territory of National park Risnjak which is often called Museum of nature.
STARIGRAD PAKLENICA
 The center of riviera with the same name in bottom of the highest mountain in Croatia - Velebit with beautiful sandy beaches is also a starting point for National park Paklenica.
Paklenica is shared name for two canyon valleys (Velika and Mala Paklenica) with cliffs even 400m high, which are vertical on sprawling of the mountain and go from sea to highest points. In the contact of sea and mountain, in vertically cut and deep canyons of mountain valleys which follows the main riff of Velebit, are plenty of interesting and unusual phenomens. Origin nature wakes the curiosity among people and inspires visitors. Natural park Paklenica is the famous mountain climbing center, famous even out of the Croatian borders.
SKRADIN
 Skradin is attractive tourist destination which beauty can be seen through three most attractive places: waterfalls of Skradinski buk and Roški slap with oldfashioned mills and water mills, together with little Franciscan island Visovac with sacrament sanctum of Lady of Visocac, rich library and cultural - artistic treasure.
Skradin is the city of traditional meetings of Dalmatian assembly singing, fests of bowlers in oldfashioned way and mask ceremony, and surely the food pleasures which are offered by restaurants and Dalmatian taverns with Dalmatian prosciutto, bread, fresh fish and oysters, grill and great wines.
Skradin marina is one of the most beautiful and most visited marinas in whole Croatian coast.
So this is Skradin - small, picturesque and delicious, in place where river kisses sea to passionate. This is Skradin - perfect, the same it was 6000 years ago.
KORENICA
 Transit center and crossroad. Great importance for Korenica is nearness of Plitvice lakes, start point for Gola Plješivica (Miholjevac, 3 km - Gola Pljšivica, 3 h). In the middle of modern men interests more and more come fresh air and pure water for drinking.
It is rare to find such area with these advantages for strengthening human vitality, like this place. With untouched enviroment and high - quality natural notabilities, in this area there are numerous autocthton plant species, prevalent in habitats both continental and mediterranean areas.
OSAMLJENI ZIR
 Zir is about 850 m high ,its highest riff is about 1 km long and oriented almost in east - west direction.
On little crossroad near place Kalinci, towards northeast, there is a tight soil road, about 6 km long, which is used to cross Lika's railway track i new highway track. Plain countryside opens huge horizon on big part of Ličko polje, a plain where almost everywhere are communities of plants adapted to acid ground. Those are Lika's fells guided by (Croatian names) vrijes /Calluna vulgaris/, žutilovka /Genista sp./ i paprat bujad /Pteridium aquilinum/ and some others plant species adapted to life on such ground.
Red - brown color of semidry overground parts of Pteridium aquilinum, and yellow color of Genista sp. are dominate on most of the area, and smaller forests and lonely birch trees are almost the only green parts in this location. So this enviroment definetly doesn't offer monotone picture.
Motel Macola
OTOČAC
 City in northwest part of Lika; it's placed on river Gacka, in west part of plain with the same name, called by earlycroatian parish; 459 m height above sea level. It consists of upper and lower part of city (Gornji and Donji grad). Economy is based on agriculture, cattle breeding, wood and chemical industry, and other.
It's positioned on crossroad of magistral road track (M5) Senj - Gospić and regional road Josipdol - Mala kapela - Krasno - Sveti Juraj. Harmonious bond of natural beauties which are enriched by historical tradition give unthinkable possibilities of holiday, pleasure in sun heat, and sunset near river Gacka.
Hotel Mirni Kutak
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LUDBREG
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WELCOME TO LUDBREG!
Discover the history of this town of wonders and legends, and learn about the long tradition of pilgrimage to this unique and holy shrine in Croatia. In particular, make time to visit:
The chapel of the Holy Cross of Batthyany Castle - in which a wondrous event took place in 1411: the appearance of the Precious Blood of Christ, on which Pope Leon X issued a buli in 1513, proclaiming Ludbreg to be a holy place.
The chapel also houses a permanent exhibition of archives (the book of miracles, the papal bull, the covenant of the Croatian Parliament) and a permanent exhibition of sacral art (church vestments and books, liturgical vessels, paintings and sculptures)
The Sanctuary of the Precious Blood of Christ, including the Covenant Chapel of the Croatian Parliament, whose construction fulfilled the ancient pledge made in 1739. The chapel, along with the Stations of the Cross, constitute a unique standing exhibit in the open of mosaics made of murano glass.
The parish church of the Holy Trinity - the oldest sacral building in the town, first mentioned in 1334, and enriched with frescos created by Mirko Rački. From the 18 th century, the church has protected the Relic of the Precious Blood of Christ. The vile containing the Precious Blood of Christ is held in the monstrance made in 1721 by the
Augsburg goldsmiths' school, which was a gift presented by Countess Eleonora Batthyany-Strattman.
The Ludbreg restoration centre, located in Batthyany Castle, was opened in 1994 and is an international restoration workshop. You can also view an exhibition of restored altars from the area ravaged in the Homeland War.
The Centre of the World - according to ancient legend, it was in Ludbreg that the circles of the Earth were thought up and drawn. All the larger European metropolises are found on the circumferences of the circles, and it is in Ludbreg that the four elements - earth, water, fire and air - meet. As an added 'bonus ' , the people of Ludbreg, being excellent grape-growers, offer another feature - the sparkling wine of Ludbreg...
FUŽINE
Fužine are placed at 730 meters above sea, in southwest part of Gorski kotar, surrounded by picturesque mountains, silence of hundred years old evergreen forests and beauty of its lakes. From its origin until today, Fužine can be thankful for its evolution to very good traffic position and nearness of transit routes - road Katarina before, that connected inland with coastal, railway, and today highway Zagreb - Rijeka, that shortens the way to the sea on just half an hour. It is a real pleasure to spend time at sea on summer, an spend nights in mountain air in numerous accomodation objects.
Fužine have a long time ago been doss house for passengers, late summer resort and winter resort and popular excursion site, and today people from every city in Croatia and foreign tourists, mostly because of preservation of nature, comfort climate, natural beauties, rich offers for recreation, numerous tourist manifestations and excellent gastronomy.
Name "Fužine" goes back to 17th century, to dukes of Zrinski and Frankopans, and probably comes from Italian word "fucina" or German "Fussine", which means blast furnace (metal foundry), because in this area was registered melting of iron ore. For a few decades later, name Fužina appears, as doss house for passengers. Although, todays official name Fužine, older inhabitants still use old name Fužina. It is not known when that change happened.
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Bern is Capitol of the Switzerland but not the biggest city. With 127.000 inhabitants it is forth largest city after Zurich, Genevieve and Basel. City is founded in 1411. by Berthold V and named after the bear he killed. Bern becomes Capitol of Bern Kanton in 1831. and shortly after that in 1841. Capitol of Switzerland. 
