Calabria is a region in southern Italy located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. Calabria also happens to be the birthplace of fashion designer Gianni Versace. This region offers the cleanest and most pristine beaches in Italy and is filled with quaint beaches and picturesque towns, includingTyrrhenian Coast of Calabria (pictured below). The spectacular rocky cliffs + fine white sand = Paradise!
Burj Khalifa (Dubai) is the highest skyscraper in the world, which includes lots of apartments, observation platforms, shopping centers, offices and restaurants.Its building began in 2004 and during six years 163 floors were built. The unique construction of 828 metres high is decorated with more than 1000 works of art and about 35,000 people can stay there at the same time.The most beautiful observation platform is situated on the height of 505 metres (124th floor), also you can find there a night club on the 144th floor, and the highest mosque in the world, located on the 158th floor.
There are a lot of channels and gondolas on Burano Island, but it became famous for its vivid buildings painted with various colours.Nobody knows whose idea it was to colour the buildings. The legend says that it were fishermen, who decided to do it. They got tired of searching for their houses and people turned them into the bright constructions, which are seen from afar.You can see blue, red, yellow, green and even pink houses there, but the Island's citizens can't choose the colours - government selects them itself.
Unusual works of art appeared on the beach of Rio-de-Janeiro. These architectural installations in the shape of three huge fish, made of just simple plastic bottles.They look especially beautiful at sunset, when they're illuminated with red and blue lights. The main isea of this work was to remind people about the problem of environment pollution.
National Centre for the Performing Arts was opened in 2007 and now it's considered to be one of the Chinese symbols.Its exterior impresses you quite a lot: some people say, that it looks like a giant egg, the others say it's similar with a huge drop, frozen in the middle of the water. A large glass dome is surrounded with water, so if you want to get in the building you have to pass the underwater tunnel.National Centre for the Performing Arts consists of three halls, which seats almost 5,000 people. Also you can find there various cafe, shops and restaurants.
There are a lot of interesting subways all over the world, but the Stockholm subway (Tunnelbana) takes a special place among them.You won't find such a beautiful subway anywhere else, as it represents a real underground art gallery of 100 km length.It was opened in 1950 and since then you have a possibility to walk through the special world.Almost each hall and tunnel of the subway is decorated by modern artists. You can see various frescoes, mosaics, pictures, sculptures and wall paintings just everywhere you go.
