THE ADVENTURE TO EUROPE

OUR FLIGHT

• We got to europe by plane
• We landed in london
• We took KLM airlines
• It cost 818 dollars
• We left at 6:26 pm and the flight took 14h 34m
• The savoy hotel is the hotel we decided to stay in for the night.
• A nice hotel with an indoor pool,and 268 individually decorated guestrooms.

LONDON, ENGLAND

• The age of big ben is 156 years old. Reaching heights of 316 ft
• The origin of big ben is in west minster, london
• The palace of west minster was caught fire in 1834.
• They decided the House of Parliament should include a clock which is now big ben.

THE CHUNNEL

• We decided to go by motorbike through the chunnel.
• It had cost 104.28 dollars to be on it for two people on two different bikes.
• It took us about 35 people minutes to finsh the trip through the chunnel

PARIS, FRANCE

• In Paris, France, we saw the eiffel tower.
• The eiffel tower is 984 ft tall.
• It was built to commemorate the French Revolution and to show off frances industrial powers to the world
• The Eiffel Tower is the Most-paid monument in the world in 2011

PARIS, FRANCE

• The louvre is a meuseum in Paris, France.
• The mona lisa is one of the most famous peices there.
• If you spend 60 seconds looking at each of the objects at the louvre, going steadily for eight hours, it would take 75 days to see them all.

ROME, ITALY

• The Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheatre is a large arena built in the first century under the Roman emperors of the Flavian dynasty.
• The main reason the colosseum was built to symbolize the power of rome and its emperors.
• 5.) It is thought that over 500,000 people lost their lives and over a million wild animals were killed throughout the duration of the Colosseum hosted people vs beast games.

SISTINE CHAPEL

• The Sistine Chapel is 542 years old.
• The Sistine Chapel takes its name from the man who commissioned it Pope Sixtus in Italian is Sisto.
• The Sistine Chapel has over 5 million visitors a year.
• The chapels paintings cover 12,000 sq ft.
• Michelangelo began work on the ceiling in July 1508. The completed frescoes were unveiled in October 1512.
• The sistine chapel is located in vatican city

GRAND CANAL

• The grand canal was built on wooden stilts.
• It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
• Venice contains over 177 canals, spanned by over 417 bridges.
• Bridges in venice usually dont have steps since the 16th century because many people traveled by horseback.
• There are three major bridges across the grand canal. Academia, Rialto, and Scalzi.

THE ALPS

• The alps are one of the great mountain ranges in europe. They stretch from austria and slovenia in the east all the way through italy, switzerland and germany to france in the west.
• The alps are probably one of the most popular tour destinations in europe.
• The highest peak in the alps is mon blanc at 4,810 metres (15,782 feet)
• Mont blanc(french) or monte blanco (italian) means white mountain.
• In most regions of the alps from december to april, winter sports like skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and tobogganing are extremely popular.

SOFIYIVSKY PARK

• Sofiyivsky Park is an arboretum and a scientific-researching institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• The park has an area of 154.7 ha and is located on the outskirts of Uman, an old city in Cherkasy Oblast.
• The park was established in 1796 by a rich Polish nobleman Stanislaw Potocki, and was meant to be presented as a birthday gift to his beautiful Greek wife Sophia in May 1802
• The number of tourists coming to Uman to see Sofiyivsky Park is as big in the winter, as it is in the summer.
• Today the park is a popular recreational spot, annually visited by 500 000 visitors.

STONEHENGE

• Stonehenge is probably the most well known prehistoric stone monument in the world.
• It is located in Wiltshire, England and is 2 miles (3 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury.
• Archaeologists believe Stonehenge was built anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC, which would make it between 4,000 and 5,000 years old.
• The circle is precisely matched to the direction of the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset and the movements of the moon.
• Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks and evidence found in 2008 indicates that it may have been an ancient burial ground from its earliest beginnings.

LEANING TOWER OF PIZA

• The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Torre pendente di Pisa) is a bell tower in Pisa, Italy.
• Construction of the Tower of Pisa started in the year 1173 and was completed in 1372. Construction stopped and restarted twice over those 199 years due to wars.
• Seven bells sit in the bell-chamber at the top of the tower, one bell for each note of the musical major scale.
• There are 294 steps on the north side of the tower and 296 steps on the south side.
• War stopped construction the first time for almost a century which gave the underlying soil time to settle and compact.