Travel Digest #2799

Introduction

Hello everyone, @glecerioberto here, and welcome to today's #TravelDigest! What do the Santa Bárbara Castle in Spain, Bank of England Museum in the UK, and the Doge's Palace in Italy have in common? Well, they're featured in our Top 3 posts! And they're also travel-worthy places. Some other travel-worthy places are in our Honorable Mentions, such as the Bohol Bee Farm in the Philippines, the Karachi Safari Park in Pakistan, the Taman Sari in Indonesia, and so much more! Be sure to check them all out below. Cheers!

Our winners today

There is a city bathed by the gentle waves of the Mediterranean Sea; Moors and Christians shared it for centuries, experiencing times of war and peace. Throughout all that time, the hill of this place was crowned with a fortress, Santa Bárbara Castle. Little remains of the castle now, but the ruins of that site preserve a history that cannot be erased by the passage of time. Anyone wishing to explore it will have to feel a bit of a sweat climbing Mount Benacantil in Alicante, either by taking the stairs through the Santa Cruz neighbourhood or by taking the crowded bus that leads to the top of the hill.

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Even though I used to work 10 minutes away from it for many years, I have never thought of visiting the Bank of England museum in London. Last year when I was in town, I finally dropped in for a visit. The Bank of England building is quite big, and the museum entrance is located at the back of the main building. It isn't signposted very well, you'll only see a fairly small obscure sign when you arrive outside.

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Next we traveled down through the Alps over the Brenner Pass to Venice. It was not a speedy trip through the mountains, but work is ongoing on a 55km tunnel that could knock an hour off the journey. As you come down into Italy it is very striking how many vineyards there are.

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Honorable Mentions

• Memorias de Juan Vicente Gómez, Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela by @damarysvibra
• Bohol Bee Farm, Panglao Island, Dauis, Philippines by @writtenbyjhap
• La Cumaca, Carabobo, San Diego, Venezuela by @chris-chris92
• Karachi Safari Park, Sindh, Karachi, Pakistan by @asgharali
• Árbol Redondo, Trujillo, Venezuela by @astrolabio
• National Museum of Fine Arts (Cuban Art Building), Old Havana, Havana, Cuba by @ibarra95
• Taman Sari, Yogyakarta, Indonesia by @titisnariyah
• Changping New City Riverside Forest Park, Changping, Beijing, China by @tanzil2024
• Pickalbatros Sea World Resort, Red Sea Governorate, El Quseir, Egypt by @asia-pl

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