i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something. in peace time what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation or to stand a chance to start this city's after war starting march tenth on t w. i ever want to walk into the final episode of our euro max special with all my favorite subjects and today we are featuring our viewers' number one choice and mine as well travel here's a look at what's coming up. pedal power we take a bicycle tour of amsterdam. alternative angle

will discover new perspectives of famous tourist sites. in volcanic paradise why people are flocking to the nordic country of iceland. where you start off in the dutch capital of amsterdam a city that simply never gets boring now amsterdam is a perfect getaway for the weekend it boasts the unesco world heritage canal system a wealth of museums not to mention the parks restaurants and of course coffee shops and unlike many other capitals amsterdam is relatively small so you can reach pretty much everything on foot but if you want to do is the dutch do then you'd better get on a bike which is what we did to explore the city. instagram is hands down europe's capital of bicycle riders it's home to an estimated nine hundred thousand bikes that's more than the population of the city center.

in two thousand and one the world's first bicycle perking garage was built at the city's central rail station shaun cody has been offering individual sightseeing tours of the capital with this company joyride tours for the past seven years naturally by bike for meaning when the most interesting things about amsterdam isn't just the beautiful city but it's also the citizens that make up the city it's people from all over the world and it actually just beat out new york as having the most variety of nationalities in any city in the world it's also a very small city so i find it quite enjoyable it's only a one point six million with the suburbs maybe a hundred thousand the city center so you get this international city feel but you're in a very small liveable enjoyable city. and many of cody's tours start off it damn square the birthplace of amsterdam and the thirteenth century local fisherman dead

into the river and settled in a village they called i'm staged. this square is also home to the seventeenth century royal palace recently this was not a real house this was the mayor's office in amsterdam and if you look at it that's why it's not an oppressive building you comparative or saw a windsor castle it's not impressive at all but originally this was the largest civic building in europe and it celebrated the power of the republic. in the seventeenth century amsterdam rose to become a key center of international trade amassing unimagined whirls this is when the world famous can now ring area was developed small implant was drained using a system of one hundred sixty. five canals in concentric arcs today the urban ensemble is a unesco burled heritage site often the houses along the canals were commissioned by wealthy merchants and many were calvinists which is why the houses are modest in

design. wealth was displayed in more subtle ways. this black house here is a good indication of that it's a very thorough house it's quite tall and if you look at the glass on it compared to the house right behind me the see it's got very large wizzy on it houses a collection of two hundred works by the dutch artist. another must see is the heights museum the national museum of the netherlands it was already a traffic friendly building when it opened in eight hundred eighty five and today it could well be the only museum that you can ride a bike through. it holds works by touch golden age masters like the mia and rembrandt. the rights as it was built around the eighteen hundreds and it's designed by a german by the name of pure cal pers and if you arrive in amsterdam by train and you see the central train station it's actually designed by the same architect

actually so that's why they look very similar in design. one of amsterdam's top tourist destinations lies on the prints and cost the end frank house every day long lines formed outside the museum in twenty sixteen it attracted almost one point three million visitors and this is where the thirteen year old jewish girl and frank went into hiding with their family during world war two to escape the nazis and where she wrote her world famous diary. a tour of the secret annex conveys that claustrophobic conditions of the hiding place the rooms are unfurnished but there's an exhibit of personal objects that belonged to the people who hid here. on board by bike through amsterdam the netherlands are famous. for their cheeses so the next stop on our tour is one of the many cheese shops in the city constance trump has all the classics on offer among them gooda i'm intolerant and up inside.

the soil in the netherlands is very. you can it's very good for growing really fine grass so keeping cows is really a thing for the dutch to give a lot of milk of course. to make the cheese we make a lot of cheese we eat a lot of cheese the dutch are an average the tallest people of the of the planet and as the myth is that because the evil of cheese. shone cody's tour ends at a more recently installed landmark the giant i am getting logo is a popular photo ops for visitors and one that captures the inclusive spirit of this open city. from the dutch capital to the german one berlin is a favorite destination for people of all ages because of its diversity and there is something for everyone here from world class museums art exhibitions and music of every genre to the wealth of history that this city boasts and one of the most historical landmarks here is the brandenburg gate now it has stood tall for over

two hundred years and if it could talk it would tell you about the time that berlin was a small walled city or about its vibrant years in the one nine hundred twenty s. or even the more darker periods of german history which followed this famous mind you mean not only has great historical significance it also connects the former east with the west so here's a closer look now at one of berlin's defining symbols. the brandenburg gate is the german capital is most important slammed right in the heart of that. twenty meters high with a wing gauge on each side it's the culmination of the grand boulevards wanted him in. the pressure repletion homes a second child his triumphal arch built in the late eighteenth century. which crowned by a six metre tall quadriga four team of four horses pulling a chariot steer by victoria the roman goddess of victory when first created

victoria was new but was later given a gown and she brought peace to the city historian see to put it in if he has to sign for the structures message. different or not often i come to. the seven hundred eighty eight so a significant event in pressure and. the second was able to conclude an important alliance with britain and the republic of the netherlands. in celebration he built this triumphal arch here and. got heartland hands modeled his early neo classical design in sandstone on the entrance to the acropolis in. sculpture you think shadow was responsible for the quadriga and many of the gates other adornments. levy wrote a book about the brandenburg gate and points out some differences from the greek model. good behavior bad sign and i think technically

fishburn him asked his architect langerhans to make the brandenburg gate as open as possible so that you could look through it to the to garden park and this long axis stretching to the western horizon which the investment does investigation hope it's fun to see it might just be the difference clearly by comparing this picture of the almost steady model architecture of the acropolis and the beautiful one point perspective through the brandenburg gate. is assured. i passed back t.v. and. all the brandenburg gate attracts visitors from all over the world. who. would do just the magnificence of the building how tall it is carvings that are in each individual pillar is quite spectacular i felt so tiny when you are in front of this a mass

a bill day this is like my first time to europe and i have never been able to experience anything such as grand as this for almost four decades the brandenburg gate was a symbol of german division italy stranded in the no man's land between east and west berlin only after the fall of the berlin wall in one thousand nine hundred nine did it become accessible to war under symbol of german unity if all those impressions leave you craving a moment of quiet contemplation come to the room of silence in the neighboring. this is still the silence here is fascinating and coming week and thinking thoughts to go further outside in the room of silence you regain composure and your inner center in the big diffused like to take the brandenburg gate home with you you can get a mini version of it in the souvenir shops as a memento of

a very special place. tourist hot spots like the brandenburg gate is where you might find british photographer all over curtis but don't expect to see him taking a typical shot of this landmark that's because curtis likes to capture the atmosphere surrounding the area now many people wouldn't even recognize the famous landmarks in his pictures because the focus is on something completely different but changing the perspective on things is definitely interesting. this is buckingham palace as we know it the official london residence of the british monarch and a tourist attraction it's been photographed millions of times. british photographer all of a car just turned his back on the palace to capture an entirely different picture. the picture was taken because i found the humor of the way people are some of these locations particularly interesting the very unselfconscious they stand in to cure

your ways they do peculiar things that i'm completely invisible because i'm just another tourist to them with this method current is produced on the usual images for his series of vault farce it provides a glimpse behind the scenes of the famous sites aren't visible they can be guessed at bast for example behind this fog is the taj mahal in india. and this is what all of a courteous saw when he turned his back on the colosseum in rome. and took this photo at the foot of the statue of liberty. the long view spending one place the more the landscape yields it starts to speak back to you and i realize that one of the things that these locations have in common is that people spend very little time there have a cup of tea and ice cream and they going to take a box yep in that scene it done it. for this project all of account is told the

whole world for four years taking photos in the vicinity of forty four tourist attractions. in two thousand and sixteen the vault fast exhibition was on show at the royal geographic society in london. it all started with the pyramids in egypt. i was in cairo on a job and took the opportunity to visit the pyramids like any tourist would when i got. i was surprised by how familiar the place was even though i'd never visited before so i walked around the base of the pyramid and found myself in back out to the suburbs of giza and i was really struck by the in congress nature when i was seeing this brand new private golf course sandwiched between the old city and the desert. place was the start of a journey that's also taken him to rio de janeiro and the lincoln memorial in

washington. he turned his back on the great wall of china. as well as lenin's to. me look strong not that overlooked in the sense that we look over them. but there was a look to the sense of the neglected not just photographically the neglected environmentally and then i'd like to. know curtis has had a not for photographing tourist attractions although he discovers one moment he forgot. we've got three cowboys over here i mean for me that is fantastically interesting it's surreal it's in congress. and it's very funny. you know i would never have scripted that in a million years and yet there they are. you may remember back in two thousand and ten when one of iceland's volcano is with

a very long name which i will not attempt to say erupted again brought air traffic to a standstill across europe well you would have thought that that would have kept tourists away from the country but just the opposite happened the number of visitors to iceland over the last seven years has taken off and mostly because of the volcanic activity we decided to visit so-called golden rink this is where you will find some of the country's most beautiful landscapes but first we wanted to check out the capital reykjavik. makes you pick the world's northernmost capital it's located on the volcanic island of iceland in the middle of the north atlantic deal and harbor fishing boats are nerd beside whale watching a boat every morning they head out to see. the harp a concert hall right on the waterfront opened in twenty eleven it's glass facade designed by artist literalise and has made it the city's new landmark photographer

antonio baird thoughts don't tear is always discovering new motifs it's such a good architecture it's very photogenic it's special. nothing you take every case like this i haven't seen anything like this actually anywhere in the world. the concert hall was long a bone of contention here many icelanders were unhappy that it took four years and cost one hundred sixty million euros to construct. and. there have been a couple of fields with this building and it costs taxpayers here and i spent a lot of money so in this i love relationship. from the heart it's just a short walk to another of reiki of the landmark buildings one hundred grammes care built in one thousand nine hundred six it's iceland's largest church and sits on a hill overlooking the old town it isn't so good for very clever it's like our eiffel tower all sounds i really like the sounds of this one inside. there's

a choir singing or can really feel the music. we're in luck the organ is just rehearsing for the next church service and he lets us listen in. and elevator takes us up to what current seventy four metre high tower from here you can see over the entire city and reykjavik spake. the wilderness starts right outside the city limits iceland is one of the most sparsely populated countries in europe. but their national park visitors can witness for themselves the results of continental drift the two tectonic plates here move apart two centimeters each year . what we see here is the beginning of the rift between the continents or

on this side we can see b. and of the north american continental plates and then if you look over the wall they expect to see the beginning of fifty. one fifty kilometers away visitors can witness another force of nature. one of the world's most reliable fountain geysers it erupts every few minutes spewing water up to forty meters in the air the energy is amazing here it's very impressive it made me made me jump. it was so impressive. next to procure lies the great guys here which lends its name to the world's other spouting hot springs nowadays it rarely erupts nearby is iceland's famous waterfall the good force or golden foams here water plunges more than thirty meters down into a canyon all the sites together make up the famous golden circle tour. it takes about an hour to get back to reykjavik in the heart of the city steam pours

out of the ground here to the earth is seething under the surface. we meet up with antonia again she wants to show is her favorite place old town with its colorful fisherman's hut it's. this street that's one of the oldest streets in cary and it has a lot of history and i know there are stories around it. due to its proximity to the harbor legend has it that the souls of dead sailors haunt the old town some say occasionally elves and trolls come here to. with evening approaching. antonia is on her way. and we visit a restaurant by the harbor called the psyche or sea baron it's said to serve up the world's best lobster soup in close quarters fishermen and tourists enjoy soup and barbecued seafood kababs. nestled in a volcanic landscape by the water break you pick keeps visitors busy day and night

. we go to the completely opposite end of the continent now and our special today in southern france where at the hotel du cap and then walk right on the mediterranean now this place has hosted all the usual suspects of the last century's jetset including ernest hemingway pablo picasso my lena detrain and more and after over one hundred years in business the hotel hasn't lost any of its glamour. he'll tell you can't is connected to the pub you want it in rocked by a huge punt that was completed just a verse century ago ever since this exclusive estate has been known as the hotel you cut it in hock. nestled amongst pines and pantries is the hotel entrance when we should abandon new york has been receiving guests for more than thirty years.

i want guests to feel at home even if the hotel has a one hundred fifty year long history during which many of last resort guests stayed here. is all it was in. the hotel's nine hector estate is a sanctuary from the outside world that's a luxury appreciated by its prominent guests many of his own are regulars here. hotel manager and often who harridan and she has complete discretion. in this. as they can be sure that nothing and no one will disturb them not the proper razzi or anyone else is on the moment they enter the hotel it's like being at home family of course it's a palace but it's also a very private establishment. on the eve of the casket awesome is of. some famous gaffes have left behind a souvenir of their visit. dustin

hoffman is a really nice guy who's been coming here for a long time that he likes it here. and this is from karl lagerfeld he has left us a lot of drawings you can see he's very creative. if i'm open to. juanita and this is by johnny depp it's a bit more rock n roll but that's the great thing about el duque up it's open to that than sharon stone she's been coming here for ages and has held her i'm far golly here for the last years. that scarlet to promote a charity age research that the hollywood actress hosts each year. the celebrity friends are happy to have an excuse to come to the cup. the light here is spectacular and i think that really draws people from the movie

industry because it's so beautiful here. billed as a writer's retreat back in eight hundred sixty three developers turned into a hotel in eight hundred seventy nine hundred fourteen i don't want probably and was added and the iconic sea water swimming pool to hang out for the likes of molina to take and it's telling way and public the cancer and the elegant suites which now cost between one and six thousand years a night time seems to have stood still. as elvis had on the r.c.a. is a retaining this spirit and this atmosphere is especially important to us and it's our most important go. so we always keep that in mind when we change or renovate something here. on the face or see that any of us. in a restaurant many features province sell specialties. as well as extravagant i'm

a designer. we choose our products very carefully to create a taste you don't get anywhere else. we want to offer our guests something unique we need to feel. when the con film festival is underway the otel to come plays host to many gonna sound operations and events. a let's act is fashion design as i musicians from around the world care to bask in the legendary drama. struck you so when you look at the hotels history is rewritten every day through our faithful guests and new ones who leave their mark on the place. now as have a visit to the hotel du cup in the uk is like entering another world

a legendary hotel that captures the history and glamour of the french riviera. definitely my kind of place and with that we're up a week of euro max special but we will be back tomorrow with our highlights show and if you can't wait until that name please go to our website to see any of the reports again or find us on facebook as always thanks for joining us we're seeing and soon. you're on oxygen the highlights of the week we'll meet the world's best female shop . we'll find out what's behind the scandinavian lifestyle trent lott on. and we'll discover how creative robots can be this and more next time on your own max highlights.

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