Chan Chan, the largest pre-Columbian city in South America, was the capital of the Chimú Kingdom, the ancient civilization that came after the Mochas and which lasted until 1470, when it was conquered by the Inca Empire.
On the northern tip of a lake that bears its name, Annecy is the largest city in the Haute-Savoie department in south-eastern France, and one of the most romantic places in Europe. Its first settlement on the lakeside dates 3,100 years before Christ, making this one of the oldest inhabited…
The reasons to visit and things to see in Costa Rica start with the expression “Pura Vida” (pure life), which is often on the lips of the Ticos (Costa Ricans). With that word they define not only a hedonistic state of mind but above all, the happiness of inhabiting a true Garden of Eden.
On a hill near the town of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England, a giant figure of a naked man wielding a club lies on a hillside. Also known as “the Rude Man” due to the nakedness of the figure and its erect penis well shown, the Cerne Abbas Giant has…