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Thursday, September 8, 2016

7 City Beautiful Above Cliffs

There are a lot of architecture in the world is amazing. One of them is the city that stands on a cliff. A place like this, sensational for tourists who visit. A place that enables us to see the sights distant horizon, or see everything so small that was far below our feet. Here's the info below:

1. Castellfollit de la Roca Castellfollit de la Roca is considered as one of the most beautiful villages in the region of Catalonia in Spain. The village is built on a basalt cliff between two rivers. Most of the buildings seemed to float on the edge of the cliff, giving the illusion that the houses could fall down at any moment. The oldest part of the village was built in the Middle Ages, made up of narrow streets and dark corners. The houses here are made of volcanic rock.

2. Rocamadour Rocamadour is a small village built on the river Alzou canyon in southwest France. Buildings in Rocamadour mengundak gradually up the side of a cliff. The village was built in the 12th century it became deserted due to the war and the French Revolution. Nowadays Rocamadour again popular with tourists and pilgrims who come to honor St. Amadour. According to legend, the holy man bears witness to the death of St. Peter and St. Paul in Rome. He then traveled to this location and become a hermit.

3. Bonifacio Bonifacio is a city located on the southern tip of the island of Corsica. Town and castle in this city lined lengthwise along the cliff top, at an altitude of about 70 meters. This cliff bottom progressively eroded by the sea, so the buildings that are on the edge, as shown hanging. If we look at the city from the sea, the city looks gleaming white in the sun and seemed to hang over the water.

4. Acapulco Acapulco is a Mexican resort city famous since the 1950s as a vacation spot for Hollywood stars and billionaires. Is not complete without a visit to Acapulco watched divers perform an impressive leap from a cliff into shallow water that would be so dangerous. The divers like these have been doing so since the 1930s.

5. Mesa Verde Mesa Verde is located in southwest Colorado, and is famous because there are cliff dwellings of the ancient Anasazi people. Mesa Verde is the most significant archaeological discoveries of Native American culture in the United States. In the 12th century, the Anasazi began building houses in shallow caves under a rock cliff that overhangs along the canyon wall. Home of the most famous here called Cliff Palace and Spruce Tree House. In 1300, everyone had left the area Anasazi Mesa Verde, but the ruins of these houses remain preserved almost perfectly. The reason for their departure that their sudden unexplained. But there is a theory which assumed that it is caused due to crop failure during drought struck. Another theory calls caused by the attacks of other tribes from the North.

6. Bandiagara Bandiagara is a sandstone cliffs located in Dogon, Mali.Bandiagara is almost as high as 500 meters from the sandy plains below. Cliffs here there are many ancient cave dwelling people Tellem.Orang these Tellem people sculpt their cave in the cliff so that when they die, they can be buried high above the floods that often hit the area this hotel.They also built dozens of villages along cliff above the caves. In the 14th century, the Dogon Tellem chase people and they occupy this area until now.

7. Ronda Ronda is located in the province of Malaga in Spain. Ronda is located in the mountains at an altitude of 760 meters. The city is divided in two by the river that flows through the Ronda Guadalevin. There are three bridges that used to cross a canyon so they can cross from one side to the other side of the city of Ronda. The city's architecture is influenced by the Romans and Moors who once ruled this area. Ronda is also the birthplace of bullfighting. The oldest bullfighting arena in Spain still exists in Ronda until today.