The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris , France , on the left bank of the Seine . It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay , an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900 . The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915 , including paintings , sculptures , furniture , and photography . It is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces ( the largest in the world ) by such painters such as Monet , Manet ,Degas , Renoir , Cézanne , Seurat , Sisley , Gauguin and Van Gogh . Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986 .
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Dead Sea Jordan
The Dead Sea is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west . Its surface and shores are 423 metres ( 1 ,388 ft ) below sea level , Earth's lowest elevation on land . The Dead Sea is 377 m ( 1 ,237 ft ) deep , the deepest hyper saline lake in the world . With 33 .7% salinity , it is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water , though Lake Assal ( Djibouti ) , Garabogazköl and some hyper saline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica( such as Don Juan Pond ) have reported higher salinities . It is 8 .6 times saltier than the ocean . This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which animals cannot flourish , hence its name . The Dead Sea is 67 kilometres ( 42 mi ) long and 18 kilometres ( 11 mi ) wide at its widest point . It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley , and its main tributary is the Jordan River .
The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years . Biblically , it was a place of refuge forking David . It was one of the world's first health resorts ( for Herod the Great ) , and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products , from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilisers . People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets . In 2009 , 1 .2 million foreign tourists visited on the Israeli side . The Dead Sea seawater has a density of 1 .240 kg/L , which makes swimming similar to floating .
The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years . Biblically , it was a place of refuge forking David . It was one of the world's first health resorts ( for Herod the Great ) , and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products , from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilisers . People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets . In 2009 , 1 .2 million foreign tourists visited on the Israeli side . The Dead Sea seawater has a density of 1 .240 kg/L , which makes swimming similar to floating .
La Rambla, Barcelona A Popular Tourist Spot
La Rambla is a street in central Barcelona , popular with both tourists and locals alike . A tree-lined pedestrian mall , it stretches for 1 .2 kilometers between Barri Gòtic and El Raval , connecting Plaça de Catalunya in the centre with theChristopher Columbus Monument at Port Vell .
La Rambla Tourists
La Rambla skeleton statue
La Rambla fish
La Rambla restaurants
Tiananmen Square Center Of China
Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the centre of Beijing , China , named after the Tiananmen Gate located to its North , separating it from the Forbidden City . Tiananmen Square is the third largest city square in the world 440 ,000 m² - 880m by 500m . It has great cultural significance as it was the site of several important events in Chinese history . Outside China , the square is best known in recent memory as the focal point of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , a pro-democracy movement which ended on 4 June 1989 with the declaration of martial law in Beijing by the government and the death of several hundred civilians .
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