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📍Cherry Blossom Season, Japan
▪️Cherry blossom is known as "sakura" in Japanese, these pale blooms are a symbol of more than just spring—they stand for renewal and hope
▪️There are 200 different varieties of cherry blossom
▪️Each tree may only bloom for up to a week
📍London, United Kingdom
▪️The Coppa Club pods are igloos in winter and paradise pods in summer
▪️This dreamy location is open 7 days a week
▪️Call well in advance to book a table as they are almost always fully booked
📍Keukenhof, The Netherlands
▪️Tulips are the symbol for love, passion, perfect lovers and romance
▪️Tulips are a part of same family of lily flowers (and therefore relatives of onions!)
▪️On Valentines day the tulip is the second most popular flower to send (after the roses)
📍Astana, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan
▪️Astana, renamed in March 2019 to Nur-Sultan to honor ex leader, is the capital city of Kazakhstan
▪️Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked country
▪️The tenge is the currency of Kazakhstan
📍Istanbul, Turkey
▪️Historically, mothers visited hamams to examine the ‘would-be’ brides for their sons
▪️A Turkish bath is a place of public bathing associated with the culture of the Ottoman Empire
▪️The Cagalolglu is the oldest existing bath in Istanbul and is nearly 400 years old.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
📍Barcelona, Spain
▪️Barcelona boasts 9 UNESCO-protected monuments.
▪️Each year, 8 million tourists visit Barcelona.
▪️Barcelona is one of the world’s major cities where smoking cannabis is legal.
📍Barcelona, Spain
▪️The FC Barcelona museum is the most visited museum of Barcelona
▪️Las Ramblas is actually 5 different avenues
▪️Exiample street corners are cut off to allow a turning radius for trams
📍Times Square, New York City, United States of America
▪️Except for emergencies, honking your car horn is actually illegal in New York City.
▪️In 1789, New York became the first capital of the United States. This only lasted for one year though.
▪️Manhattan was purchased from the native people in 1626 for the modern equivalent of US $1000
📍Marbella, Spain
▪️Marbella is home to 137 different nationalities.
▪️Marbella is the second greenest city in Europe with just 23 per cent of its area under tarmac and construction
▪️The wealthy have been building villas here for over 2,000 years. One of the first came complete with marble mosaics.
📍Barcelona, Spain
▪️Barcelona is older than Rome.
▪️A typical Roman grid plan is still visible today in Barcelona’s Barri Gotic.
▪️Barcelona could have been home to the Eiffel Tower.
📍Athens, Greece
▪️Athens has experienced almost every form of government.
▪️The ancient Olympic games were never held in Athens.
▪️Athens is home to the first known democracy.
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📍Central Station, New York City, United States of America
▪️New York sets train tracks on fire to keep them free of ice in the winter
▪️Manhattan comes from a Lenape word meaning "island of many hills"
▪️Roughly half of the population speaks a language other than English at home
📍London, United Kingdom
▪️Feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square is banned
▪️The Millennium Dome is the biggest structure of its kind in the world
▪️Waterloo Tube Station is the busiest for public transport
📍The Village, New York City, United States of America
▪️New Yorkers drink 7 times more coffee than people in the rest of America
▪️25% of the world's gold bullion is stored in vaults under Wall Street
▪️1 out of every 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire
📍London, United Kingdom
▪️Police never caught Jack the Ripper
▪️The London Underground could have been water-based .
▪️There were only six deaths in the Great Fire of London
📍Valentine's Day, Worldwide
▪️February 14th is the second largest card giving day of the year, just after Christmas.
▪️More than one-third of men are comfortable not receiving anything from a lover on Valentine’s Day.
▪️A kiss on Valentine’s Day is considered to bring good luck all year.
📍Milan, Italy
▪️In the National Museum of Science and Technology are stored all the most famous works of the great artist and inventor — Leonardo da Vinci.
▪️The Milan tram network is the most developed in Western Europe.
▪️In General, the tradition of the aperitif was laid precisely by the Milanese and is one of the oldest secular traditions of Italians.
📍Marbella, Spain
▪️Marbella boasts one of the best shopping scenes in southern Spain.
▪️The Costa del Sol is a region of Spain that enjoys 320 days of sunshine a year
▪️The oldest and most attractive neighborhood is the Casco Antiguo – an area of whitewashed houses and romantic, flower-filled streets.
📍Athens, Greece
▪️The Athens Metro hid unexpected archaeological finds.
▪️A woman is responsible for sidewalks in today’s Athens.
▪️The Hotel Grande Bretagne is the oldest hotel in the city.
📍Barcelona, Spain
▪️Sant Jordi's Day is the Catalan Valentine's Day.
▪️Barceloneta beaches are artificial.
▪️The Sagrada Familia has taken longer to build than the great pyramids.
📍London, United Kingdom
▪️London’s smallest house is 3.5 feet wide and is a part of Tyburn Convent in Hyde Park Place.
▪️London was the first city in the world to have a population of one million people, which was reached in 1811
▪️40% of Greater London is made up of green space.
📍Barcelona, Spain
▪️Barcelona is home to the largest football stadium in Europe, Camp Nou.
▪️Barcelona has 68 parks.
▪️Barcelona loves neither flamenco nor bullfighting.
📍Central Park, New York City, United States of America
▪️It can cost nearly $300,000 to operate a hot dog stand around Central Park
▪️New York City is the city with the largest Polish population after Warsaw
▪️1 in every 38 Americans live in NYC
📍Hermitage museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
▪️The word ‘Hermitage’ is derived from the word ‘hermit’, which translates to ‘people who live alone’.
▪️The museum is now housed in five interconnected buildings
▪️The State Hermitage Museum possesses nearly three million items of art dating back to the era of Stone Age to the present days.
📍Athens, Greece
▪️Athens was the first European Capital of Culture.
▪️Greece has one of the highest numbers of international airports for any country.
▪️The marathon event was created for the modern Olympic Games held in Athens.
📍Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, United States of America
▪️Invisible, harmless shrimp called copepods live in New York City's water supply
▪️Einstein's eyes are locked in a safe deposit box somewhere in the city
▪️The Empire State Building has its own zip code
📍Matryoshka Dolls, Russia
▪️The largest Matryoshka is 27.5-inches tall and contains 70 dolls
▪️Matryoshka dolls are one of the most popular souvenirs associated with Russia in the world today
▪️Matryoshka dolls actually originated in Japan.
📍Marbella, Spain
▪️Marbella is known as the playground of Europe's rich and famous.
▪️Marbella’s popularly known as a fishing port, but this is really a mining city.
▪️Marbella is home to an open-air collection of sculptures by Salvador Dali.
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