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THE ROUTE OF THE VOLCANES IN THE PHILIPPINES

The Philippines is an archipelagic country, located in the Pacific Ring of Fire and has more than 100 volcanoes, distributed in its more than 7,000 wonderful islands. Volcanic activity is very abundant in the Ring of Fire, since it concentrates up to 75% of the world’s volcanoes. During your visit to this country, you shouldContinue reading “THE ROUTE OF THE VOLCANES IN THE PHILIPPINES”

OSTIA ANTICA: PORT OF ROME

Along the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea and at the mouth of the Tiber River, a large Roman city was located in ancient times, Ostia Antica, perhaps the first colony of this Empire, which we still have the opportunity to visit today, thanks to archaeological finds. A legend says that the city was founded duringContinue reading “OSTIA ANTICA: PORT OF ROME”

CALIPHATE OF CORDOBA PART II: MEDINA AL-ZAHARA

I had previously told you that the Muslims arrived in the Iberian Peninsula in 711, led by Tarik, and had defeated the last Visigothic king, Don Rodrigo, in the battle of the Guadalete River. This fact gave rise to the Muslim expansion in the territories that currently remain to Spain and Portugal. At the beginningContinue reading “CALIPHATE OF CORDOBA PART II: MEDINA AL-ZAHARA”

CALIPHATE OF CORDOBA PART I: MOSQUE-CATHEDRAL

Along the banks of the Guadalquivir River, which means “the Great River” in Arabic, stands a beautiful city, Córdoba, which during medieval times under the rule of the Umayyads became one of the cultural, artistic, political and most important economies cities in the world, being surpassed only by the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople.Continue reading “CALIPHATE OF CORDOBA PART I: MOSQUE-CATHEDRAL”

THE ESSENTIALS IN ROME: THE COLOSSEUM, THE PALATINE HILL AND THE FORUMS

“Rome will exist as long as the Colosseum exists; when the Colosseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, so will the World” a clergyman once said. Perhaps centuries have passed since the official date, 476, in which the Roman Empire ceased to exist, but its essence is still noticeable in the lands that wereContinue reading “THE ESSENTIALS IN ROME: THE COLOSSEUM, THE PALATINE HILL AND THE FORUMS”