Battlefields and War Sites
February 14th, 2007Very few countries have a history free of involvement in war, be it civil war or a the global scale. It is therefore not surprising that many places which have witnessed extraordinary occurences of war are of increasing interest to the weary traveler looking for a more meaningful experience than plastic Eiffel Towers and “I Love New York” t-shirts.
Europe is full of battle sites from World War I and II ranging from the battlefields of Flanders and the D-Day landing beaches of Normandy, to the Nazi Concentration Camp of Auschwitz - Birkenau in Poland. A popular pilgrimage for Australians and New Zealanders is Gallipoli’s ANZAC cove in Turkey, where on April 25 thousands converge to pay their respects to the fallen soldiers of the bloodbath at the site in 1915.
The most visited attraction in Hawaii for Americans is the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, while in Singapore a visit to […]
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