Ergebnis für "Das Mittelalter" in Reisen & Tourismus

Stephan Orth hat ein Faible für Länder mit schlechtem Ruf - und als Saudi-Arabien endlich Touristenvisa vergibt, ist er einer der ersten Individualreisenden. Als Couchsurfer erhält er Einblicke in eine verschlossene Gesellschaft, wie sie bisher keinem westlichen Besucher möglich waren. Er betritt Neuland und wird Zeuge eines rasanten Wandels: Frauen fahren Auto, Spaß haben ist nicht mehr verpönt, und Milliarden fließen in riesige Events.

Esslingen ist eine der wenigen Städte Deutschlands, die im zweiten Weltkrieg von nennenswerten Zerstörungen verschont blieb und sich ihren ursprünglichen mittelalterlichen Charme bewahren konnte...

Hätt' ich Venedigs Macht und Augsburger Pracht, Nürnberger Witz, Straßburger Geschütz und Ulmer Geld, wär' ich der Reichste in der Welt...

Two Years Before the Mast is an 1840 memoir by the author Richard Henry Dana. A Harvard graduate, he spent the years 1834 to 1836 as a sailor on a merchant ship on a voyage from Boston to California. The journey took them past Cape Horn on the Tierra del Fuego archipelago where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet. Dana provides detailed descriptions of ship life and the technical aspects of sailing. A chapter on California and its inhabitants offers valuable historical insights on the state which was then a foreign land.

Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock have been granted leave to go on pilgrimage. Together they travel across Europe to Portugal, but danger seems to follow them, as they are among the first on the scene when a beautiful young girl is found brutally raped and murdered on the hillside of Santiago de Compostela. Baldwin and Simon lend their investigative skills to the ensuing enquiry headed by the local pesquisidore, Munio.

Ostensibly written by an English knight, The Book of Marvels and Travels claim to recount his experiences in Egypt, the Levant, India, and China. It describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and further into Asia, and the many weird and wonderful peoples and practices of the East. The author claims to have traveled in land populated by Amazons, dog-headed people, cannibals, one-footed tribes, and Pygmies.

London is one of the great cities of Europe, a center of commerce, art, and science for more almost 2,000 years. Visitors today are treated to world-class museums, pulsing nightlife, and fine dining. But one does not have to search far beyond this prosperous and modern façade to glimpse an older and more unusual London; in fact everywhere one looks, ancient traditions and old patterns emerge.

In London England, an exact replica of the 17th century William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre opened in 1995. Audio journalist, Lee Daley is exploring the Globe Theatre with actress and docent, Kitty Grimes. Ms Grimes tells us how the new Globe Theatre began while we walk through the scrim and into a Shakespeare past.

Die Geschichte der Gräfin Matilde und ihrem Territorium: Geschichte, die Canossa (die Ursprünge, die Familie, die Besitzungen), Mathilde Markgräfin von Tuszien, Mathilde von Canossa, Kaiser Heinrich IV., Papst Gregor VII., Kaiser Heinrich V., die Burgen, die Pfarrkirchen, Abteien und Klöster, Folklore, die Ortschaften in den Appenninen, die Landschaft, die "Mathildische Route", das Kunsthandwerk: die "ars canusina", die enogastronomischen Produkte.