Where to travel, travel and route planner » tourist city http://www.dankuna.com/blog Best travel, maps, GPS, weather, images, cheap hotels Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:15:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lombard Street, San Francisco http://www.dankuna.com/blog/lombard-street-san-francisco.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lombard-street-san-francisco http://www.dankuna.com/blog/lombard-street-san-francisco.html#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:50:59 +0000 JohnMS http://www.dankuna.com/blog/continent/north-america/lombard-street-san-francisco/ [...]]]> Lombard Street begins at Presidio Boulevard inside The Presidio and runs east through the Cow Hollow neighborhood. For 12 blocks between Broderick Street and Van Ness Avenue, it is a principal arterial road that is co-signed as U.S. .
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Lombard Street then continues through the and neighborhoods, breaks off at a point becoming Boulevard. That leads to and Coit Tower. Lombard Street starts again at Montgomery Street and finally terminates at The Embarcadero as a collector road. Lombard Street is best known for the one way section on between Hyde and , in which the roadway has eight sharp turns (or switchbacks) that have earned the street the distinction of being “the crookedest [most winding] street in world.” In fact, Lombard Street is not even the in San Francisco, let alone the world. ( between 20th St and 22nd Street near the is the crookedest street in the city with only , and is located in a much less picturesque location.) The switchbacks design, first suggested by property owner Carl Henry[citation needed] and instituted in 1922, was born out of necessity in order to reduce the hill’s natural 27% grade, which was too steep for most vehicles to climb and a serious hazard to pedestrians used to a more reasonable sixteen-degree incline. The speed limit is a mere 5 mph (8 km/h) on the crooked section, which is about 1/4 mile (400 m) long. SF is great to visit.

Lombard Street, San Francisco GPS coordinates: 37° 48′ 7.2″ N, 122° 25′ 8.4″ W

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Feb 09, 6:30pm at Sacred Grounds, 2095 Hayes Street (@ Cole), San Francisco, CA
Songwriter Jo D'Anna will be returning to the historic and venerable Sacred Grounds Cafe open mic for an original, 30-minute feature set , accompanying herself on acoustic guita...

Feb 09, 6:30pm at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 814 Montgomery St. (at Jackson), San Francisco, CA
This lively panel discussion will address long-standing cultural and culinary traditions in Genova, along with more recent trends. The discussion with Monica Viarengo (Farina Fo...

Feb 09, 6:30pm at Goethe-Institut San Francisco, 530 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA
The exhibition „Comics, Manga & Co. – Germany's New Comic Culture“ features the works of two generations of artists, who have transformed the German graphic novel-scene in...

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Feb 09, 7:00pm at Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA
Feb 9-23 14th SF Independent Film Festival For the 14th year in a row, SF IndieFest presents an awesome abundance of awesomeness with a mightily monstrous mix of maverick movie...

Feb 09, 7:15pm at Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA
Feb 9-23, afternoons and evenings, see sfindie.com for schedule For the 14th year in a row, SF IndieFest presents an awesome abundance of awesomeness with a mightily monstrous ...
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was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart in Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg, the capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. His only sibling who survived past birth was his sister Maria Anna (1751-1829), called “Nannerl”. Wolfgang was baptized the day after his birth at St. Rupert’s Cathedral. The baptismal record gives his name in Latinized form as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Mozart generally called himself “Wolfgang Amade Mozart” as an adult, but there were many variants. is very nice with historical .
location: 47° 48′ 00″ N, 13° 2′ 37″ E

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The Halaszbastya or Fisherman’s Bastion is a terrace in neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque style situated on the Buda bank of the Danube, on the Castle hill in Budapest, around Matthias Church. It was designed and built between 1895 and 1902 on the plans of Frigyes Schulek. Its seven towers represent the seven Magyar tribes that settled in the in 896. The Bastion takes its name from the guild of fishermen which was responsible for defending this stretch of the city walls in the Middle Ages. It is a viewing terrace, with many stairs and walking paths. A bronze statue of Stephen I of Hungary mounted on a horse, erected in 1906, can be seen between the Bastion and the Matthias Church. The pedestal was made by Alajos Stróbl, based on the plans of Frigyes Schulek, in Neo-Romanesque style, with episodes illustrating the King’s life. It was featured as a Pit Stop on the sixth season of The Amazing Race. Great in middle of Europe.
location: 47° 30′ 6″ N, 19° 2′ 6″ E

]]> http://www.dankuna.com/blog/fisherman-bastion-halaszbastya-budapest.html/feed 0 Trastevere, Rome http://www.dankuna.com/blog/trastevere-rome.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trastevere-rome http://www.dankuna.com/blog/trastevere-rome.html#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:54:28 +0000 Pete http://www.dankuna.com/blog/continent/europe/trastevere-rome/ [...]]]> is rione XIII of Rome, on the west bank of the , south of . Its name comes from the Latin trans Tiberim, meaning literally “beyond the Tiber”. The is “tras-TEH-ve-ray”, with the accent on the second syllable. Its logo is a golden head of a lion on a red background, the meaning of which is uncertain. To the north, Trastevere borders on to the XIV rione, Borgo. Rome is perfect , enjoy nice food, drinks and romantics tourist spots. Prices are high, avoid because of high temperatures.
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Nowadays, Trastevere maintains its character thanks to its narrow cobbled streets lined by . At night, both natives and tourists alike crowd to its many pubs and restaurants. However, such of the original character of Trastevere remains. The area is also bag to John Cabot University, a private American University, the American Academy in Rome, and the leaders campus of the Thomas solon College of Liberal Arts, the Canadian University of licking School of Architecture (between the months of September and December), and the American Pratt Institute School of Architecture thence serving as bag to an international student body.
Travel destination: 41° 53′ 14″ N, 12° 27′ 56″ E

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It links the streets Damrak and Rokin, which run along the original course of the from Centraal Station to Muntplein (Mint Square) and Munttoren. The Dam also marks the endpoint of other well-, Nieuwendijk, Kalverstraat and Damstraat. A short distance beyond the northeast corner lies the main red-light district, de Wallen. On the west end of the square is the neoclassical Royal Palace, which served as the city hall from 1655 until its conversion to a royal residence in 1808. Beside it are the 15th-century Gothic Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) and the ’s . The National Monument, a white stone pillar erected in 1956 to memorialize the victims of World War II, dominates the opposite side of the square. Also overlooking the plaza are the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky and the upscale department store De Bijenkorf. These various attractions have turned the Dam into a . The square abounds with city pigeons, popular for birdfeeding. Amsterdam is great , visit canals, coffee shops or Dam Square, Amsterdam
Travel direction: 52° 22′ 22.8″ N, 4° 53′ 34.8″ E

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