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A Brief History and Location Situated in the busiest and the most visited part of the Malaysian capital, near the Gin Raja Laut Road, the Mardeka or Independence Square of Kuala Lumpur is admired very much by tourists for its lush green cricket field lying right in its centre. The place is popular in people as the venue for celebrating the New Year’s Eve and the demonstration of the national day parade. Every year, at 12:00. A. M. of Jan 1st, the entire area, spread over approximately 6.2 acres, is illuminated by fireworks. At the same time, thousands of cell phones light up the whole area. The place where now the junction is located was originally a cricket ground for the Royal Salinger Club and also the administrative centre of Kuala Lumpur. On August 31, 1957, when Malaysia gained independence from Britain after a period of 150 years rule, that was the site where the announcement of the freedom of the country was made. The word merdeka in the Malay language means independence; there...

  A Short History Dubai, once being an unknown and small port town, flourished all of a sudden as a result of the discovery of offshore oil wells during the later decades of the twentieth century. Formerly a small settlement of Beduian traders and pearl divers, Dubai has a history spread over a period of nearly five thousand years. The area was soon chosen by some nomadic Arabs to settle at due to its vast supply of fresh water. Besides, there is an easy access to the Arabian gulf as well as to Arabian sea from here. Consequently, more and more people from far and wide were attracted to come and inhabit both sides of the creek. The modern city of Dubai is, in fact, a merger of two small towns. One being Deira and the other Bur Dubai, both lying on the northern and southern sides of a small inlet of the Gulf water known by the name of Dubai Creek. Since old times the central business district of the city is situated in Deira. It is this very Deira where is located the most renowne...

  Beirut, the capital of the Lebanese Republic, is reputed all over the world for its fascinating night clubs and hotels. It is especially the favourite city of western tourists who notice an obvious French impression on its cafes and other buildings. The city has been destroyed for nine times over the ages. It has, therefore, a rich treasury of archaeological remains buried in her soil. These relics are believed to be found in exuberance in the B. C. D--- Beirut Central District. This same B. C. D. or the Downtown Beirut is also home to the well known Najam Square, the commercial as well as the cultural heart of the city. The square can rightly be called an icon of the city of Beirut in the entire world. After the Second World War, the area was renovated at a considerable cost, unearthing a large amount of riches belonging to the Bronze Age. Visitors can see traces of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Mamluk, and Ottoman periods and they can dine by the Roman ruins as o...

  Also known by the appellation, Al-Midan Tahrir, and spread over 500 acres, it is the largest public square of Muslim Cairo. It has won universal reputation in recent years because of being the gathering site for mobs protesting and rioting against the 30 years long regime of President Hosni Mubarik, and remaining the focus of international press and electronic media. The location of the square serves as a gateway to the centre of the city of Cairo. A well known national daily News paper of the country, Al – Ahram, quotes about the square: whatever happens in Tehrir Square becomes a national concern. Its immense area easily accommodated the masses of the people belonging to the movement for over throwing Mubarik’s regime. The place in what is now Tehrir Square used to be a large sandy tract during the ancient period of Egyptian history. Much of this land was covered by the Nile when it changed its course during the 10 th  century rendering it into a marshland. By the tim...

Location and a Brief History   St Mark's square is the principal square of the city known throughout the world as the city floating on water— the romantic Venice. The square is situated in the heart of the city to the west of St Mark’s Basilica and surrounded by arcades on the other three sides and is the only one given the title of piazza. Many important government buildings are located here. Thousands of tourists crowd the square, feeding pigeons that fill the whole area. Recently, however, the city has passed a law that banned the feeding of pigeons, for they have largely spoiled the surrounding buildings. Until recently pigeon feeding had been the most popular activity among tourists. Everywhere around the square, tourists could be seen trying to balance the birds on their hands or throwing com to them and getting them photographed. The piazza San Marco was built in the ninth century in front of the original St Mark’s Basilica, at that time a small chapel in th...

  One of Rome's most spectacular squares and renowned for its admirable work of art, La Fontana di Quattro Flumi — the fountain of four rivers, Piazza Navona is a place never to be forgotten during a tour of Rome. The piazza is home to several masterpieces of Baroque art as the one mentioned above as well as the other two fountains lying to its north and south and of course the magnificent church of St Agnes.  Location and the Derivation of its Name Situated exactly at the site of the ancient Domitian Stadium or the Circus Agonalis or Competition Arena, it was officially named Piazza Navona in the 15 th  century. Since those days it has been an important market place of the city and the site where various festivals took place.   The circus was built by the Roman emperor Domitian in 85 A.D. for athletic competitions called agones and was of the shape of a rectangle with its northern side being curved. It could seat up to 30000 spectators. It is thought that the na...

  Known for thousands of years by the name of the Eternal City, the historical city of Rome possesses numerous worth seeing places. Among them the leading ones are its squares and fountains. Not a single square in Rome is without a fountain. Though there are several spectacular squares in Rome, but the one ranking highest is St Peter’s Square, the core of Vatican City.  Historical Background and Location Piazza San Pietro or St Peter’s Square is originally the place where the renowned Neron Circus of the Roman Emperor Nero was situated. Ancient traditions say that was the site where the apostle St Peter was crucified upon Nero’s order in his circus. It is said that he was buried at the same place. Many other Christians were martyred here as well. The place has been visited by the faithful for centuries. Emperor Constantine, in 324 A.D., constructed here the St Peter’s Basilica in the honor of the holy saint. The Basilica is structured exactly at the place where St Peter was ...