http://en.redtram.com/ TOP 100 | World | Tourism Copyright (c) 2008 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Fri, 16 May 2008 05:57:19 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/106662481/top100/ travelforlife.ru A street named after Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975), a Russian composer of the Soviet period is likely to appear in St. Petersburg in near future. According to Saint-Petersburg.ru, the initiative is coming from Nikolai Burov, the head of Culture Committee of Mon, 12 May 2008 22:26:35 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/106662481/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/106662479/top100/ travelforlife.ru A popular expedition project "The Baikal Ice" or "Following the Baikal Ice-2008" organized by the Irkutsk-based company "The Baikal Visa", will start on May 25 in the village of Listvyanka near Lake Baikal. At this time the ice covering the Mon, 12 May 2008 22:26:34 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/106662479/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/106662477/top100/ travelforlife.ru Three human skulls being sent to Britain were seized at Indonesia's international airport, according to a local customs officer. The sponge-wrapped skulls were packed in separate boxes and labeled as handicrafts, said Eko Darmanto, chief of customs at Jakarta's airport. Mon, 12 May 2008 22:26:34 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/106662477/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/106662480/top100/ travelforlife.ru Spain formally has laid claim to an 1804 shipwreck that yielded a reported U.S. $500 million treasure, saying Spain has proof the vessel was Spanish. Officials demanded the return of the booty recovered last year by a U.S. deep-sea exploration Mon, 12 May 2008 22:26:34 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/106662480/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/106054546/top100/ travelforlife.ru The jubilee exhibition of the artworks by celebrated Russian artist Ivan Shishkin, who was often referred to as the "patriarch of forests" in the State Russian Museum is the project that has been carried out in collaboration with the State Thu, 08 May 2008 13:23:24 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/106054546/top100/ World | Construction & Real Estate http://en.redtram.com/go/105853599/top100/ prian.ru Bet you didn't know that some people think French fries should really be called Belgian fries. 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The belief that fries were first invented in Belgium is so strong that quirky collector Eddy Van Belle has just opened the Friet Museum Wed, 07 May 2008 16:11:47 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/105796504/top100/ World | Construction & Real Estate http://en.redtram.com/go/105566366/top100/ prian.ru Full-body scanners producing images of airline passengers naked are to be introduced in America as part of a new scheme intended to promote a "stress-free airport experience". Wed, 07 May 2008 00:21:42 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/105566366/top100/ World | Construction & Real Estate http://en.redtram.com/go/105566364/top100/ prian.ru Venice has decided to start fining backpacking tourists and locals that feed the pigeons in the famous St Mark's Square, it has been revealed. 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Farron Adria, and his El Bulli restaurant, at Roses, on the Costa Brava, has taken the top award in the 2008 San Pellegrino world restaurants awards Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:09:27 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/102008739/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/102008740/top100/ travelforlife.ru The world's oldest known living tree, a conifer that first took root at the end of the last Ice Age, has been discovered in Sweden, researchers say. The visible portion of the 13-foot-tall (4-meter-tall) "Christmas tree" isn't ancient, but its Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:09:27 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/102008740/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/101273934/top100/ travelforlife.ru The fans of extreme tourism have now an opportunity to raft along one of the major Russian rivers from Lake Baikal on a block of ice. Moreover, the rafting experts and safety professionals are sure that the trip is quite Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:46:39 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/101273934/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/101273933/top100/ travelforlife.ru Pope Benedict XVI heightened his recent environmental campaign in his address at UN headquarters in New York City - a push that includes everything from stern theological warnings to solar panels on St. Peter's Basilica. "International action to preserve the Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:46:39 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/101273933/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/101273930/top100/ travelforlife.ru Nine new hotels with 1,352 rooms in total will be opened in St Petersburg in 2008. In 2009 hotel business companies are planning to build sixteen hotels with total number of rooms 2,581. Today there are 371 hotels (22,457 rooms) Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:46:39 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/101273930/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/101273932/top100/ travelforlife.ru Airport screeners are about to get new security training designed to help them think creatively about possible threats - including those they have never thought of."We have to prepare for attacks that don't fit our procedures," Transportation Security Administration Administrator Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:46:39 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/101273932/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/99500898/top100/ travelforlife.ru On May 12 the famous Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya collection will be exhibited at Constantine Palace, the presidential residence in St. Petersburg. The pieces from the extremely comprehensive collection will be displayed at the basement and first floors of the palace in chronological Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:28:07 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/99500898/top100/ World | Tourism http://en.redtram.com/go/99500893/top100/ travelforlife.ru The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is going to launch an important art project in the middle of May. Between May 18 and October 18 the Moscow-based museum will display copies of masterpieces from its collection right in the streets Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:28:02 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/99500893/top100/ World | Construction & Real Estate http://en.redtram.com/go/99146566/top100/ prian.ru Frustrated and exhausted travellers at Heathrow have been complaining recently of being treated like animals, caged in the terminal with little to drink and taunted by snarling ground staff. Little wonder then that Frankfurt airport, the main European competitor to Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:12:45 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/99146566/top100/