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Goa is a small region of India. The region is known for its numerous beaches and the great Portuguese influence in all cities.

The regional capital is Panaji, while the largest city in the Basque city of Gama and Margao city known for its Portuguese influence and several tourist attractions. This territory belonged to Portugal for over 450 years.

The capital, Panaji, noted for its many tourist sites have. It is worth visiting the Church Square or the Gardens. There are Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception and the Palace Idalçao dating from the XVI century. Also visit the Mahalaxmi Temple, the Jama Masjid mosque and the chapel of San Sebastian. Both ornithologists and nature lovers can visit the Bird Sanctuary Salim Ali.

The most famous beaches of Goa, white sand and crystalline waters, the beaches of Miramar, which is always full of tourists, Bambolim and Dona Paula beach, where two rivers meet. Throughout the year, especially during summer and winter, the beaches of the region are filled with both foreign and local visitors.

Basque da Gama, a city near the coast, known for its beaches. Bogmalo Beach is the most famous, just nine kilometers from the city and is surrounded by smaller beaches, such as beaches and Bain Khollant. Upon entering the city is the church of San Andrés, 400 years old. Each year, one week before the festival of Raksha Banhan fair is held in a large temple fair Saptaha Bhajani Shri Damodar.

The city of Margao is the busiest in the region, because here is the shopping district. El Mercado de Afonso de Albuquerque is a closed market that attracts all kinds of traders, while Mercado Velho, the old market, is more traditional. The city is full of both churches as churches. On the religious level include the church of the Holy Spirit, Chapel Hill Monte, Damodar Temple, Hari Mandir, a Hindu crematorium, the Smash, and a Muslim cemetery, the Kabrasthan.

Goa is a land of many influences and religions, and noted for its many festivals. Various religious festivals are celebrated as Diwali or Christmas, although the region is most famous for its colorful carnivals. During Carnival, people dress up and all the cities are filled with music, dance and color.

In Goa we can also find a forest of more than 1.424 square kilometers, where the Western Ghats, a region with one of the greatest biodiversity of species in the world. In this region you will find large plantations of bamboo and coconuts.

Unlike other parts of India, which are filled with temples and shrines typically Indians, this region has an influence over Portugal, with Baroque buildings, few temples and several churches. The Basilica of Bom Jesus is the most famous of the city and there are the remains of St. Francis Xavier. The many strengths of the region, as the strengths of Tiracol, Chapora and Aguada, also attract many tourists.

The cuisine of the region is famous for its Xit Kodi, a kind of rice with fish curry, fish and other dishes. Food stands of coconut and coconut oil, like meals of chili and other spices.

Goa also has several museums, including the Goa State Museum or the Museum of Aviation in Basque da Gama, the only of its kind in India. In many theaters scattered around the three major cities can enjoy various schools of performing arts, as Tiatr, plays with a lot of music and songs.

This city in southern France is located to the left of the Rhone. Founded by the digging, the city gained prominence when he formed part of the first Transalpine province of the Roman Empire. Today, nothing remains except this time the remains of a Roman forum.

The city also was the official residence of the Pope between the years 1309 and 1377. The Palais des Papes, built between 1335 and 1364 now forms part of the historic city center and is considered a World Heritage Site since 1995.

The Remparts, the city walls dating from the fourteenth century, are examples of the fortifications that surrounded the cities during the Middle Ages. The Hôtel de Ville or City Hall, is a relatively modern building, whose bell tower, like the walls are well preserved since the fourteenth century and is a monument worth visiting.

The famous Pont d’Avignon, known by the French song “Sur le pont d’Avignon”, are just four of the eighteen arches had before. However, other bridges decorate the city on the Rhone, as the bridge linking the city with Villeneuve-les-Avignon.

The Avignon Festival is a festival to be held since 1947. Usually held in July and brings together young actors and actresses that represent innovative and original plays. The art, dance and music also form an important part of the festival.

The Hôtel des Monnaies, the former Papal mint music school transformed into an architectural style also worth seeing. The Musée du Petit Palais, the small palace museum brings together many works of art from the Renaissance, many of them Italian. This museum was opened in 1976.

Exactly one month ago in the distant city of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates capital, the tango was recognized as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee. The nomination of tango was presented jointly by the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. This was due to be considered a major expression of identity of the inhabitants River Plate. Tango, clearly urban in nature. is a mixture of African and Caribbean sounds. Originally danced between men, owes its rate of 2 × 4 to a sentimental mixture of tenements, slums, hoodlums and low areas.

Classic is played with orchestral training or sextet typical to bandoneon and recognizes its essential tool. Troilo Pichuco undoubtedly was the greatest exponent. Among the singers most representative figure to head the “Creole Thrush” Carlos Gardel. Also worth mentioning as a revolutionary pace was Don Astor Piazzola who attempt to fuse the tango with jazz. Without doubt, the slang is the language of the musical rhythm and Enrique Santos Discepolo is recognized as a poet par excellence. Ever “Dicepolin” defined the tango as “a sad thought that is danced”. Jorge Luis Borges, founder of the Aleph, also ever written a tango that was set to music by the great Astor.

In the lyrics of “Someone tells the tango” Borges captures the essence of this rhythm: “Tango dance I’ve seen against a sunset yellow, for those who were capable of another dance, the knife. Come loose, carefree, always looked at the front. Tango you were blessed to be a man and be brave. From this yesterday, how many things we both have passed! The items and the grief of loving and being unloved. I’ll be dead and you’ll skirting our lives. Buenos Aires has not forgotten you, you were and you will tango.