Friday, August 19, 2011

What About England?



Stonehenge ( TOP VIEW )
 England has various interesting cities to spend your holiday. Almost the entire place in England has its own beauty. Salisbury is one of the top choices because it has spectacular landscape in addition to several ancient buildings and ruins. Stonehenge is probably the main tourist attraction of the city, but there are also other interesting places to visit including the old cathedrals and specialized shops.

Stonehenge
 Salisbury lies in the scenic landscape of Wiltshire, England and has been named as a “cathedral city” with its remarkable places of worships including the Salisbury Church that was built during the medieval period. The city is more admired with its immediacy with the Stonehenge site which is a Neolithic ruins that enthralled the attention of archeologists and scientists who are still debating the primary purpose of the slabs of stones arranged in a complex manner.

The Old Sarum, another remarkable place to make a stopover, which is situated on a hilltop north of the city. According to historians, this place used to be the site of an ancient civilization way back 3,000 BC. The Avebury ring is the oldest stone ring that is renowned to be in existence anywhere in the world and is even older than Stonehenge.



AVEBURY
 Avebury is known as a sacred centre by many who profess beliefs such as Paganism, Wicca, and Druidry; for some it is regarded more highly than Stonehenge. The pagan festivals catch the attention of visitors, and the summer solstice draws increasingly large crowds. Avebury is said to stand on the St Michael ley line, an alignment that is said to run across England from Cornwall to East Anglia." 

Chalice Well
 

 The Chalice Well, a primeval spiritual healing is situated in Glastonbury, England - one of the most powerful energy centers on the planet. Prophecies have foreseen it, playing a vital role in the New Age, the entire area around this small town has a very spiritual vibration.



Giant Causeway
 
In North Ireland, with an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns you will find “The Giant's Causeway”. They said that this is a result of an ancient volcanic eruption that happened over 50 million years ago. It is sited in County Antrim , on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland , about two miles (3 km) north of the town of Bushmills . It was affirmed as one of the World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and a National Nature Reserve in 1987 by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland . In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named as the fourth greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom . The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea.

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