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The Cascamorras is a festival that takes place in the towns of Guadix and Baza in the province of Granada, Spain, annually on September 6. The two towns fight for possession of a statue of the Virgen de la Piedad. The Cascamorras refers to representatives from Guadix, who are sent to the town of Baza to recover the statue. As the Cascamorras have to stay perfectly clean to gain possession of the statue, Baza residents attempt to make them as “dirty” as possible.
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2011
World’s longest bridge - Donghai Bridge China – 32.5 kilometers
World’s largest palace - Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania with more than 500 bedrooms, 55 kitchens,120 sitting rooms
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2011
The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum.
Built in 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 buildings with 8,707 rooms and covers 720,000 m2 (7,800,000 sq ft). The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987, and it’s listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.
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2011
These stunningly detailed sculptures are created by husband and wife team Allen and Patty Eckman using a specially formulated paper. Some of the creations are lifesize and some we scale down to 1/6 life-size.
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Jefferey Batchelor‘s work ranges from straight realism to surrealism, and from rectangular canvases to shaped canvas panels that he builds, thanks to his extensive training in theatrical scenic construction.
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2011
Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat at 10,582 km² (4,085 square miles). It is located in southwest Bolivia. The salt is over 10 meters thick in the center. In the dry season, the salt planes are a completely flat expanse of dry salt, but in the wet season, it is covered with a thin sheet of water which makes the most beautiful reflections.
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