Most Beautiful School Campuses in the World

Majority of the people do not want to go back to school but seeing these campuses would definitely make them think twice. Not to study there but to make it a good tourist destination. Below are the list of the most beautiful campuses around the world.

Berry College
Mount Berry, USA

Holds the record for the largest campus in the world. An amazing 26,000 acres of lot area. Hmmmm. I wonder if they do have na airport inside? They do have lakes and forests as part of the campus' area. It has numerous fountains and pools as well as English Gothic inspired buildings which most of it were donated by Henry Ford... In case you don't know him, he is the invetor of automobile and the owner of the company... Ford

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Lewis and Clark College
Portland, USA

Like a reserve forest park, this campus has 137 acre lot area with forest trees, old pathways and stone walls. This was used to be a private mansion named after two explorers who were able to identify different species of animals in the US.

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University of San Diego

San Deigo, USA

This campus chooses a theme of Spanish Renaissance. It has elaborate facades, delicate iron work and and wood carvings would certainly put you back through time during the Spanish conquestadores period.
Let's just ingnore the dark side of that period... you know, slavery, land grabbing and high taxes.

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University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, USA

Unlike most campuses that showcases old stylish designs. This one has a modern touch. It was believed the whole structure costs $1 Billion.

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University of Notre Dame
South Bend, USA

Ain't no hunchback in here on the glistening golden dome of the school's main building. This is a 150 year old Catholic School with chock-full of lush quads.

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Florida Southern College
Florida, USA

The buildings look like giant scultures and considered as one of US' cultural sites. Walking around the campus feels like roaming around inside an art museum.

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Stanford Univeristy
Palo Alto, USA

From the entrance alone, this 8180 acre campus is just one of the grandest. It is a mile long tree line palm drive which leads to the expansive green Oval, red clay roof-tiled main quad and the crown jewel of the campus, the Memorial Church with is striking mosaic facade.

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Oxford University
England, UK

Built around 11th Century, this building still stands with its quadrangle and arch ways making the campus very elegant. Radcliffe Camera, one if its famous buildings is now a library that is used to be a science building

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Yale University
New Haven, USA

Founded in 1701, some of the iconic buildings of the campus including Colonial Revival and Ingalls Rink are still considered as one of the most amaziing university structures of the world.

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Univeristy of Virginia
Virginia, USA

Founded by Thomas Jefferson, this is the only university in the US to be designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Well, from that alone you can tell this university's campus is indeed beautiful. One of the famous structure there is the Rotunda which is half the size of Pantheon.

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University of Bologna
Bolgna, Italy

Built in 1088, it is considered as one of the oldest universities. Aside from its beautiful and striking old architecture, the university boasts its 30 museums, including astronomy museums, geology museum, physics museum, animal museum, and pathological museum.

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Scripps College
California, USA

This is a 30 Acre campus with buildings of Mediterranean Revival Style. It has a huge rose garden where students can pick roses. Do you know why they have such? Because... It's a women's university. Various kinds of fruit tress can also be seen inside the campus. If you are a single guy you would definitely put this on the top of your list. hehehe

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University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark

The oldest and largest university in Denmark, this university is very famous for its landscapes and middle age architecture. It also boasts its modern buildings having a building as the first carbon building in Denmark.

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Tsinghua University
Beijing, China

Was named by Forbes as the most beautiful last 2010. Definitely it wont top the list for no reason. This university has a 356 acre lot located at the Qing Dynasty Royal Garden. The campus showcases chinese style landscapes and buildings.

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University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

The university ranks among the best 50 universities in the world in terms of quality of education. The university is widely known for its plantation of ginko trees. It's japanese style buildings are also one of a kind and the elegant Red Door, the grate in front of the unitversity is a national treasure of Japan. It was built in Edo Period fro high ranking military officials to welcome their brides.

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University of Califonia Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, USA

Founded in 1919, this university is a public research university located in Westwood of LA. The university has 2 campuses, north and south. The north campus is the original campus and known for its Renaissance architecture. It has also the famous DIxon Square which is surrounded by oaks. This campus has been featured in a lot of films. The south campus is like a modern version of the university since its buildings are modern in design.

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Harvard University
Cambridge, USA

Most often, this school ranks number one among the universities and by far the most famous university in my list. That's why I visited this university twice. Who else haven't heard of Harvard? This school has been featured in many movies. The school campus covers a 210 acre lot. The center of the university looks like a beautiful grassy park surrounded by old english brick buildings.

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Peking University
Beijing, China

The campus of this university is also called as Yan Gargen and has been considered by many as the mini-Summer Palace for its Weiming Lake area. It is so beautiful because this campus was once part of the Qing Dynasty Royal Garden. The Boya tower is also one of its known landmark as shown in the picture. Its building were designed similar to the forbidden city.

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Wroclaw University of Technology
Wroclaw, Poland

The university is located in the center of Wroclaw, one of the progressive cities in Poland. The campus is famous for its Gothic and Classicism, Baroque and Modernism Architecture.

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University of Gothenburg
Gothenburg, Sweden

The university looks like a large spacious garden that provides hiking tracks with an amazing scenery. People who visits there always prefers to bike around. The building has a modern touch in the inside

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University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal

This is the oldest university in Portugal and is one of the oldest universities in the world. The most elegant bilding in the campus is its 700 year old library as shown in the picture.

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The Best Museums of the World

Below are the museums who made in the list of what was considered the best based on their size, fame and type of priceless arts and antiquities they safeguard for you to see and insure the future generations can see also.

Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo, Japan

Established in 1872, this is the oldest museum in Japan. It houses the famous Japanese art and weaponry as well as the large collection of Greco-Buddhist art.

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Louvre
Paris, France

It is the most visited museum in the world. Its exhibits includes ancient egyptian artifacts, classical Greek and Roman art and medieval Europe. It houses a lot of painting including the very famous Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Billbao, Spain

The museum is constructed as a twisting titanium clad which made the museum an art itself. It draws a lot of attention when it was finished contstructed in the 1990's. The museum exhibits the works of both local and international artists.

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Vatican Museums
Vatican City, Rome

Most famous for its spiral staircase, the museum has also Raphael Rooms and of the course the very famous Sistine Chapel. Exquisitely designed by Michael Angelo and was believed to be his crowning achievements in painting.

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Uffizi Gallery
Florence, Italy

This is one of the oldest museums in the world. It is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi which was constructed to be used as offices by the Florentine Migistrates in 16th Century. The museum contains a wide collection of Renaissance art wroks

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Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg, Russia

Founded in 1764 by the Catherine the Great, this museum has a massive collection of art and culture of more than 3 million items collected around the globe. It has priceless works of Rembrandt, Da Vinci, and Michael Angelo.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, USA

The gothic style building was opened in 1972 housing more than 2 million collections of human history aroound the world

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National Palace Museum
Taipei, Taiwan

This museum has the largest collection of ancient Chinesse artifacts in the world. The museum gives you a flash back of Chinesse history and impressive engineering and innovation of which some where used today like the compass, medicine and gun powder.

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Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands

This is the most pretigious museum for Dutch Golden Age. It has wide collections of paintings from famous painters like Vermeer and Rembrand.

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Museo Nacional de Antropologia
Mexico City, Mexico

This museum contains archaelogical artifacts from the pre-Columbian heritage of Mexico. The museum has exhibits like giant stone heads e Olmec Civilization and the famous Stone of the Sun.

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Prado Museum
Madrid, Spain

This musuem feature the best collections of European art from 12th Century to early 19th Century. The famous work of Velazquez are being shown here as well as the works of some Italian masters.

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Museum of Modern Art
Manhattan, USA

Considered as the most influencial of modern art in the world, this museum houses some of the works of Picasso, and the very famous Van Gogh's Starry Night. The museum is designed like a maze of glass windows that allows viewing in many angles.

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British Museum
London, England

Established in 1973, it has a wide collection numbering to more than 7 million objests, detailing human's history. It has the famous Rosetta stone and has a lot of mummies next to Egypt.

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Egyptian Museum
Cairo, Egypt

The home to at least 120,000 Egyptian relics and antiques. This museum has the famous tomb of Tutankhamen and 27 other mummies of Pharaohs. It has also a vast collection of heiroglyphs, papyrus and coins used in ancient Egypt.

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Most Famous Festivals in the World

Want to go to places where the good times literally go? This list is just right for you. It doesn't happen everyday though but one thing's for sure, you'll have fun. Below is the list of the most famous festivals celebrated around the world. Don't be left out.... Check them out.

Burning Man
Nevada, USA

Held in the middle of the Nevada dessert, the flat plains become a wide place for exhibit of out of the box art and other mayhem like concerts and mind wrecking activities. The festival culminates with the burning of a massive, builiding sized effigy. No worries were to stay, it's close to Vegas where there are a lot of hotels and celebration happens everyday.

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Oktoberfest
Munich, Germany

Not for the kids and the kids at heart. This fest is for beer drinkers. Well suited for people who are cholesterol carefree. This festival doesn't actually happen in Ocotober only. It starts end of September and ends at the first week of October. There are also live bands and parades but who cares when you're drunk?

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Mardi Gras
New Orleans, USA

Happens in the famous Bourbon Street were beads are thrown over the people gathering below, drinking and trying to get out of their old self. The Mardi Gras has also parades and events for people to enjoy located around New Orleans. I've seen a video of this once where the police loses control and the people resulted to chaos and tried to steal things from sorrounding stores. My of my... This is supposed to be a religious event.

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International Jazz Festival
Montreal, Canada

LFor 2 weeks every July, Montreal's downtown core is transformed into a hotbed of jazz, with stages dotting many major intersections. The streets a turned into concert halls and bands around the world performed around the huge crowd

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International Film Festival
Cannes, France

Held every May since 1939, this festival is being flocked by thousands. It is being held in Cote d'Azur. There is a competition between films... (more like the Oscar) but the International Film Festival is a city event were people have lot of stuff to enjoy around other than waiting who's winning what.

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South by Soutwest
Austin, USA

Also known as SXSW, this festival began in 1987 to promote local acts but now it is a big festival everyone in Texas is looking forward too because not only local bands and labels perform here but big acts too. Right now Austin helds the record for the city with the most number of music halls because of this.

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Carnivale
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This festival is held every February or March and it has but one theme, SAMBA!!!. The colors the costumes, the floats are all crazy plus matched with street dances with infectious music that could keep you grovin.

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Love Parade
Germany

Began in 1989 this event is held every August in the Ruhr area of Germany. This festival has been immitated in different countries but still nothing beats the original. This festival turns the street into a massive dance party. Love parade is about carefree Euro style of fun.

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Fringe Festival
Edinburgh, Scotland

Probably the longest festival in this listing because it is being held for 3 weeks. WOW!!!! But why???? it is because more than 200 shows are being held every festival from musical, comedy, opera, dance to acrobatic are being shown. There is just something for everyone. The admission are very cheap also.

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Festival of San Fermin
Pamplona, Spain

Known with its famous "Bull Run".... Yup. The bulls are unleashed to chase down the people in the streets. Men put themselves in a situation where they will have a frantic dash for their lives against the raging bulls. Some for adrenaline rush while oithers are just for plain stupid bragging rights. This festival is being held every July to commemorate the Patron Saint of Pamplona. There are also other events with the traditional folkloric stuff and climaxes with the big run.

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