San Paolo Palace

... stop walking tour of the city and got most of the main highlights in, which were the National Congress Building, the Justice Palace and the very pleasant Plaza Bolivar. We stayed in the more relaxed part of the city known as La Candelaria which is ...

... !  We stopped in Sciacca (pronounced Chah-Ka) for lunch - we found a little restaurant down on the harbour called Porto San Paolo where we shared a "Pazza Salad" and noodles with pesto and swordfish.  We had purchased a large bottle of water ...

... Rialto bridge. I come upon it from below, an interesting and unusual angle. I cross and make my way through the Campo San Paolo, a lovely, very large square. People sun on the benches and gaze at the faces and figures carved into the buildings ...

... and Astoria square, a very comfortable hostel with a friendly staff and nice guests, Gustavo and Allyson two nice boys from San Paolo, Brasil and Anne and........two nice French girls from Paris who were going to Cluj Napoca, Romania for helping ...

... the center and my stomach felt stable enough for some lunch. I walked up Ancash to a restaurant recommended in my book -- San Paolo. I flipped through the menu outside and the waitress came to invite me in. I sank into a large lounge chair and ...

... we stayed across the lagoon on Lido island, went to an art gallery, la accademia, and churches off the main drag, San Giovanni e San Paolo, looked all over the place for "the best pizza in Venice", Trattoria Pizzeria No No Risorto, and hung out ...

... a much smaller street leading down to Florida and the tourist centre of the city. Buenos Aires is South America's 2nd largest city after San Paolo with a metropolitan population of around 13 million. It's a big noisy city but very well laid out from it's ...

... , most churches were closed in the morning for services, so we explored new paths. We happened across a huge church called San Giovanni e Paolo, which was open. We went in (entry was free), and were awestruck at the amazing interior! It was very ornate, ...

... hailed a taxi to take me to the two places I wanted to see: Wat Pho, the oldest temple in Bangkok, and the Grand Palace. Wat Pho features the largest collection of Buddha images in the country - nearly 400 - and was the nation's earliest center for ...

... Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi), Cimabue (Maestą), Duccio (Maestą), Simone Martini (The Annunciation), Paolo Uccello (The Battle of San Romano), Piero della Francesca (Diptych of Duke Federico da Montefeltro and Duchess Battista Sforza of ...

... of Rome. Straight ahead was the lovely Palazzo Venzia building with its Michelangelo planned steps up.   The beautiful white marble palace was straight in front of us. It was originally the Pope’s residence in the 13th C and Mussolini’s ...

... to the Palacio de Justicia (near Caseros and M.Bass) which is an immense building of four floors, truly the size of a palace. I wandered the halls in amazement at the army of lawyers or legal secretaries waiting to look at legal documents which one could ...

... crowded, cobblestoned streets and finally found our new home for the week.  Hmm.  This place used to be a palace for the Allesandra family, and has been converted to apartments.  Interesting curved ceilings, some bits of marble statuary ...

... have family in Recife, we went there for Christmas. I like very much the Boa Viagem area and our hotel was the Recife Palace  Golden Tulip. The facilities are excellent and the buffet breakfast much, much better than the one at Armazao. From my ...

... sit and type this. Beautiful city with an amazing and tumultuous history. Again hitting all the tourist hotspots from the Presidential Palace where the likes of Evita and Maradona adorned the now famous balcony, walked around the backstreets of San Telmo, ...