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Paris
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The Louvre Museum - The Louvre is the world’s largest palace and museum. It has one of the greatest art collections in Europe.
Musee D’orsay- Housed in a grand railway station built in 1900. Home to many sculptures and impressionist paintings and is one of the most popular in Paris.
Musee National Picasso - Holding Picasso’s own personal art collection alongside 7,000 of his own work.
Museums - D’art Moderne-Europe’s finest collection of contemporary art.
La Defense - La Défense is the prime high-rise office district of Paris. Many of Paris’s tallest buildings can be found here.
The Sacré-Coeur Basilica - The majestic building is located on top of the Montmartre hill, Montmarte area on a hill in an 18th arrondissement, north of downtown Paris, is known for its many artists who have been omnipresent since 1880.
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Barcelona
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Las Ramblas - Stroll under the trees, admire the street artists, look at the alive statues.
Park Guell - Gaudi avoided levelling the grounds so that the Park Guell has a network of twisting roads.
The Montjuic - A mountain inside the city. A true bowl of air. You can see the Splendid sight of Barcelona from all sides. The hillsides are covered with flowers, exotic trees and giant cactus. The luminous fountains of Gaietà
Casa Milà - Commonly known as La Pedrera is the largest civil building designed by Antoni Gaudi.
The Sagrada Familia - Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished masterpiece, is one of Barcelona’s most popular attractions. Construction on this church will continue for at least several more decades.
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Madrid
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El Prado Museum - Boasts the world’s finest collection of Spanish art, with extensive examples of works by El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, and Murillo.
Toledo - City of three cultures’, as it is where Christians, Muslims and Jews famously lived together. Its impressive Spanish buildings include virtually all the big art periods in history (Arab, Gothic, Mudejar, Renaissance and Baroque style.)
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Rome
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Capitoline Hill Museums - The museums, housed in two palaces, are situated around a central square – or piazza – designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and completed over a period of more than 400 years.
The Vatican & St Peters Basilica - Home to the Sistine Chapel with its world renowned ceiling painted by Michaelangelo and the Vatican museum.
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Florence
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Uffizi Gallery - Contains the world’s largest collection of Renaissance art.
The Duomo - The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore dominates the city centre, topped by Brunelleschi’s iconic dome.
Ponte Vecchio - Spanning the River Arno the “Old Bridge” is one of the most famous landmarks The current bridge was built in 1345.
San Gimignano - A fairytale town with medieval stone towers and churches, surrounded by Fields and vineyards.
Sienna - A gothic brick built town, which has managed to hold onto its buildings from the middle Ages.
Pisa - Home to the famous ‘Leaning Tower’ it is also home to some amazing architecture.
Galleria Dell’Accademia - Home to the world famous marble ‘Statue of David by Michelangelo.
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New York
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Metropolitan Museum Of Art - With more than two million works of art spanning thousands of years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the most expansive and prolific art museums.
Guggenheim Gallery - The Guggenheim houses an important collection of modern art, but even if you’re not into art, the building housing the art is worth a visit on its own.
Lincoln Centre - In New York City, the cultural capital of the United States, there stands a complex that is dedicated to the finest in the world of music and the arts.
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Washington
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National Gallery Of Arts - Opened in 1941 as an art gallery “for the nation”, Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art boasts one of the country’s largest collections of Western art and sculpture.
National Air And Space Museum - The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world.
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Boston
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John Quincy Adams National Park - Tells the story of four generations of the Adams family (from 1720 to 1927). Library, which contains more than 14,000 historic volumes.
Harvard Museum of Natural History & JFK Presidential Library - The building is the official repository for original papers and correspondence of the Kennedy Administration.
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San Francisco
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Palace Of Fine Arts - Originally built for an exhibition that celebrated the completion of the Panama Canal and the city’s recovery from the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Academy Of Sciences - Features an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum and much more all under one ‘living’ roof living things.
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Toronto
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Royal Ontario Museum - Homes a vast collection of world cultures and natural history makes the ROM one of the largest museums of its kind in North America.
Music Garden - Inspired by the notes of a cello piece by Johann Sebastian Bach, Toronto’s Music Garden provides a great venue for intimate concerts and a lovely place to relax.
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Vancouver
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Museum Of Anthropolog - Dedicated to the culture of the aboriginals of the Pacific Northwest and in particular of the Haida. Thanks to its rich collection it is the most interesting museum in Vancouver.
Vanier Park - Home to the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, built in 1968; the Vancouver museum & Maritime museum.
Marine Building - Considered Canada’s finest example of Art Deco architecture, Vancouver’s Marine Building continues to garner praise for its design.
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Cairo
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Egyptian Museum (Cairo)-Home to the most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the world.
Catacomb Alexandria (Kom El Shuqqafa)-A remarkable example of the Alexandrian blend of Greco-Roman and Egyptian styles carved into 100ft of solid rock.
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Tokyo
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Meiji Shrine - Is a Shinto shrine. Shinto is called Japan’s ancient original religion, and it is deeply rooted in the way of Japanese life. Shinto has no founder, no holy book, and not even the concept of religious conversion, but Shinto values for example harmony with nature and virtues such as "Magokoro (sincere heart)". Dedicated to the divine souls of Emperor Meiji and his consort Empress Shoken, (their tombs are in Kyoto).
National Museum - As Japan’s only national science museum, the mission of the National Museum of Nature and Science is to deepen people’s understanding of the Earth, life, and science
and technology, and to provide people with lifelong opportunities to think deeply about how humankind, the natural world, and science and technology should best relate to each other.
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