Street Art - Rio de Janeiro

Bergisel

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Acquario di Genova

With 30 natural environments, the Genoa Aquarium represents the greatest variety of ecosystems and the largest exhibition of biodiversity in a European aquarium.

Indeed, visiting the 70 tanks means travelling from the depths of the Mediterranean to the Madagascar Lagoon, from coralline cliffs to the freezing waters of the Antarctic, from the mangrove forests to the jungle of the hummingbirds.

Useful info

Acquario di Genova
Ponte Spinola
Tel. 010 2345678 - Fax 010 256160
www.acquariodigenova.it
incomingliguria@acquariodigenova.it

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Santa Teresa

Largo do Machado

Rua do Catete

Rua 7 de Setembro

Enseada de Botafogo

Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the World

Ushuaia is the southernmost city in the world. It is Located on the shores of the Beagle Channel, at the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego Island, and surrounded by the Martial Monts.


Its superlative location allows you to enjoy sea, mountains and forests at the same time.

Ushuaia’s name comes from the language of the yámanas or yaghanes indians, its original inhabitants, and means “bay that penetrates westward.”

Ushuaia is a young city. The city foundation was in October 12, 1884 when an argentine expedition arrived to establishing a sub-prefecture. However, some 300 Anglican missionaries of the South American Missionary Society already populated the area. They built the first houses and took care of evangelize the natives.

For Argentinean people Ushuaia began to be known in the early twentieth century when it was decided to build there a prison. The prison of Ushuaia is part of the city’s history and the prisoners were the “first settlers”.

The picturesque village suffered a sudden onset of population growth since the 1970′s, thanks to a special regime of industrial promotion.

Today, Ushuaia is a tourist city with international airport and all necessary services. It is also a cruise port and the closest deepwater port to the Antarctic.

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The Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

The Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, built starting in November 1938 close to the small town of Fürstenberg/Havel, was the only large concentration camp on German soil which was designed as a “protective custody camp” for women. Between 1939 and 1945, 132,000 women, 20,000 men and 1,000 young women from the ”Youth Protection Camp Uckermark” were registered as prisoners. The prisoners came from over 40 countries; there were also many Jews as well as Sinti and Roma among them. Tens of thousands were murdered or died from hunger, illness or medical experimentation. After the Red Army liberated the camp on April 30th, 1945, the land was used by them for military purposes until 1994. The Ravensbrück Memorial Site, opened outside of the historical camp walls in 1959, has been a part of the Brandenburg Memorial Foundation since 1993.

The Ravensbrück Memorial Site, which has been expanded to include extensive parts of the historical concentration camp complex, nowadays combines remembrance, research and historical-political educational work. The Ravensbrück International Youth Exchange Site with an affiliated youth hostel was opened in 2002. The educational services office organizes events lasting over a period of several days. In addition, tours and project days are offered. Since 2007, the tour has begun and ended in the new Visitor’s Centre.

New exhibitions about the wardens and SS officers in the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp can be seen in one of the former warden's houses and in a former commander's living quarters. There is an exhibition in a former cell-block which gives information about the camp prison. In 2013, a new main exhibition will be put on display in the former commander's offices, after the renovation work begun in 2011 is complete. During the construction work, the exhibition ”Ravensbrück: Biografien - Themen - Kalendertage” (”Ravensbrück: Biographies, Themes, Days”) provides information about the history of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp.

Address

Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück (Ravensbrück Memorial Site)

Straße der Nationen  16798 Fürstenberg/Havel 

Regional train: RE 5 from Berlin Central Station to Fürstenberg/Havel train station and then around a 3 km walk to the Ravensbrück Memorial
Opening Hours: Tues-Sun 9-5pm (last entry: 4:30pm)

The Memorial Site is accessible from 8-6pm, and in the summer (May 1st-September 30th) until 8pm.
Admission: Free entry
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