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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Baltimore, Maryland -(3) View of Inner Harbor from Baltimore World Trade Center

Located at the center of Baltimore Inner Harbor. You pay a $10 fee at the lobby, and you get to go up to 27th floor where you will have great view of Inner Harbor below.

 

















Saturday, January 25, 2014

Baltimore, Maryland (2) Inner Harbor

A popular tourist and locals visiting place. It offers great view of seaports,landscapes, architectures, boats, warships, restaurants, culture centers and culture events. It attracts people to come back over and over again.






Baltimore, Maryland- (1) road side from washington, DC to Inner Harbor

Oldest city in the east coast, Baltimore city is a major industry city in Maryland as well as an important seaport. On the way from Washington, DC to visit this city, here are some of the photos taken on I-95 showing off the plants outside the Inner Harbor.



Baltimore Inner Harbor

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Friday, January 17, 2014

Rome, Italy - (6) Castel Sant'Angelo

The Castel Sant'Angelo Rome is famous beacuse it is the tomb of Emperor Hadrian. During its many years of existence, the building functioned first as a mausoleum, then became part of the city wall and later was turned into a fortress before it functioned as a papal residence and finally as a barracks and military prison. It is currently a national museum.













Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Rome, Italy - (5) Victor Emmanuel Monument

Victor Emmanuel Monument Officially known as the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II, the enormous white marble monument that dominates Piazza Venezia was built as a tribute to the first king of a united Italy, Victor Emmanuel II. As King of Sardinia and victor over the Austrian army in Lombardy, Victor Emmanuel had become a symbol of the Risorgimento, the movement for a united Italy. After his army joined forces with Garibaldi and defeated the papal army, the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1861 with Victor Emmanuel as king.





Sunday, January 12, 2014

Rome, Italy - (4) Parthenon

The Pantheon is a building in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus as a temple to all the gods of ancient Rome, and rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian about 126 AD. The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. (Source: Wikipedia)