The Louvre or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre

The Louvre or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre

The Louvre or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre, pronounced: [myze dy luvʁ]) is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument in Paris, France. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet). The Louvre is the world's most visited museum, and received more than 9.7 million visitors in 2012.[1]

The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built as a fortress in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture.[2] In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years.[3] During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum to display the nation's masterpieces.

The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801. The collection was increased under Napoleon and the museum renamed the Musée Napoléon, but after Napoleon's abdication many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through donations and gifts since the Third Republic. The collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings

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Deutsches Museum (German: Deutsches Museum)

Deutsches Museum (German: Deutsches Museum)

Deutsches Museum (German: Deutsches Museum) is a science and technology museum in Munich, Germany. Has been initiated founded in the summer of 1903 by the Federation of German engineers in the era of the second Kaiser Wilhelm was opened in November 1906. It is not only the first technical museums in his time, but also of the most visit now and the largest area since located on more than 50,000 square meters.

German Museum

The museum displays life-size models, ships, atomic generators, wind mills, industrial pumps and engines giant has so many planes. The museum restoration after the end of World War II until the 60 years the museum is located on Museum Island (Museumsinsel), one of the largest city of Munich landmarks.

One can get a nice view of the city of Munich through the museum tower.

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Jakarta

Jakarta

Jakarta /dʒəˈkɑrtə/,[note 1] officially known as the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (Indonesian: Daerah Khusus Ibu Kota Jakarta), is the capital and largest city of Indonesia, and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.

Located on the northwest coast of Java, Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre, and with a population of 9,761,407 as of December 2012, it is the most populous city in Indonesia and in Southeast Asia. The official metropolitan area, known as Jabodetabek (a name formed by combining the initial syllables of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi), is the second largest in the world, yet the metropolis's suburbs still continue beyond it.

Established in the fourth century, the city became an important trading port for the Kingdom of Sunda. It was the de facto capital of the Dutch East Indies (known as Batavia at that time). Today, the city has continued as the capital of Indonesia since the country's independence was declared in 1945. The city is currently the seat of the ASEAN Secretariat.

Jakarta is listed as a global city in the 2008 Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC) research. Based on survey by Brooking Institute, in 2011 economic growth in Jakarta ranked 17th among the world's 200 largest cities, a jump from its 2007 ranking of 171. Jakarta has grown more rapidly than Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Bangkok.

In 2014 global consultant A.T. Kearney released the Emerging Cities Outlook 2014 which ranked Jakarta first among 35 emerging world cities in terms of potential to improve their global standing in the next few decades.

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Tourism in Turkey

Tourism in Turkey

Tourism in Turkey has experienced rapid growth in the last twenty years, and constitutes an important part of the economy. In 2013, 37.8 million foreign visitors arrived in Turkey, which ranked as the 6th most popular tourism destination in the world; they contributed $27.9 billion to Turkey's revenues. In 2012, 15 percent of the tourists were from Germany, 11 percent from Russia, 8 percent from the United Kingdom, 5 percent from Bulgaria, 4 percent each from Georgia, the Netherlands and Iran, 3 percent from France, 2 percent each from the USA and Syria, and 40 percent from other countries. Turkey has 13 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, such as the "Historic Areas of Istanbul", the "Rock Sites of Cappadocia", the "Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük", "Hattusa: the Hittite Capital", the "Archaeological Site of Troy", "Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape", "Hierapolis – Pamukkale", and "Mount Nemrut"; and 51 World Heritage Sites in tentative list, such as the archaeological sites or historic urban centers of Göbekli Tepe, Gordion, Ephesus, Aphrodisias, Perga, Lycia, Sagalassos, Aizanoi, Zeugma, Ani, Harran, Mardin, Konya and Alanya. Turkey hosts two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which are the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Temple of Artemis.

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Statue of Leshan Giant Buddha

Statue of Leshan Giant Buddha

Statue of Leshan Giant Buddha is located at the confluence of three rivers point in the southern part of the province of Sichuan , near the city of Leshan in China . This statue built during the reign of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 m). The statue is the largest statue of Buddha carved into the rock in the world. Indeed, the area where the giant statue listed as a World Heritage Site since 1990 by UNESCO . The statue was not damaged by the earthquake that hit 

China in 2008 .
The statue carving began in 713 under the supervision of a Buddhist monk called "Tong are"; in the hope that calms the Buddha powerful to hit the river cargo ships passing through the waters of the river. After the death of the monk, the statue building stopped due to lack of funding. After almost 70 years, he decided to military governor of the region to adopt the project and its financing. He has followers of Buddhist monk "is Tong" to complete the process of sculpture in 803. It seems that the large number of stones placed in the river by the process of carving the statue led to calm the waters of the river. Allowing ships to pass through.

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Sanaa

Sanaa 

Sanaa is the political capital (officially) and historical Yemen , one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities with a history of the fifth century BC, at least  . Located in the center of the country in the high mountainous area on the Sarwat Mountains , rising from the sea 2300 meters. In the past the city was not only occupies a small area of ​​the bottom of Sanaa spacious, which extends from Mount Let's east and west of Mount Ayban, but increased in the Islamic covenants and widened the wall circle. In recent centuries it has been developed in the west of Bir Al-Azab contiguity and space superiority, and it was the Ottoman presence gained the upper hand in its creation, and in the west of Bir Al-Azab held at the bottom of the seventeenth century Jewish neighborhood of Sanaa. Since the revolution of September 26, 1962 Sana'a began experiencing enormous changes and spread the old Sana'a and (Bir Al-Azab) outside its walls and intensify crept Urban in all directions.  called the Capital Secretariat in official circles, which is the administrative center of the province of Sanaa , and has a population of about 2.229 million  , the capital secretariat is divided administratively into nine districts , are gaining importance as the capital of political and historical the Republic of Yemen, where he concentrated ministries , institutions and government departments, as well as the activity of trade and industry wide, characterized by the city of Sanaa character architect Fred qualifying to be among the cities historic World , one of the world's most beautiful cities and is characterized by the capital climate moderation in separate winter and in the separation of summer . Old Sanaa from UNESCO World Heritage sites and have distinctive character because of the unique architectural characteristics, in particular multi-storey buildings decorated with geometric patterns. 

In February 2015, it closed embassies of the United States and the UK المتحدة وألمانيا وفرنسا وإيطاليا وتركيا وهولندا واليابان وسفارات Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and other countries embassies in Sanaa because of the deteriorating security situation, after the control of rebels on صنعاء،  وأعادت السعودية والإمارات والكويت والبحرين وقطر فتح Their embassies in the city of Aden  in which the President began Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, after his release from Sanaa. And it announced a temporary capital of Yemen in the March 7, 2015 ,  instead of Sanaa, which he described Bamahtlh of the Houthis . 

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Religious tourism

Religious tourism

Religious tourism of the oldest types of tourism and the aim is to carry out religious rites as is the case when Muslims from the pilgrimage and Umrah or visit the shrines of saints and prophets and the righteous, as well as recreation and expansion of the family members as stated in the teachings of Islam .

In the Muslim part of religious tourism, it has called many Islamic figures to the need for the development of tourist programs Islamic standards. In this regard pointed Habib Ali Jafri to the dilemmas faced by the Islamic Tourism today, as the actions of peoples and governments do not proceed from in-depth studies with respect to this topic which he described Balbalg importance, calling at the same time to consolidate the link between the Islamic discourse and the reality of tourism, as pointed Safwat Hijazi to the Islamic religion which a lot of capacity and leeway and love, so it was considered the issue of Islamic Tourism significance

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