5 facts about how helpless tourist guides

Website learned that many tourist mecca are at best questionable and at worst - outright fakes. For example ... 1. Six homelands KolumbaZagibayte fingers in the Italian Genoa, in the Spanish city of Las Palmas and in four other cities in both countries. The most famous birthplace of Columbus is considered the Italian city of Genoa. It is known, however, and that no serious evidence of this fact is not. Moreover, historians believe that the house in Genoa (which you definitely present as one where the famous seafarer Childhood) was built in XVII-XVIII centuries (besides a reconstruction). Columbus, as is known, was born in 1451.



2. Five graves HristaZnaete Do you think that the tomb of Jesus Christ is, even in Japan? It is situated in the village of Shingo in the north. On the tomb are two crosses: the first - to Jesus, the second - his brother Isukiri that as the Japanese believe, died in his stead in Jerusalem. Jesus himself, according to residents of Japan, spent his childhood near Tokyo and then traveled to the Middle East, where there were the events described in the Bible. When they crucified brother, he quietly returned to Japan and lived to be 106 years old in the village of Shingo. If that.



Three more graves of Christ in Jerusalem and one - in the Indian state of Kashmir.

3. StounhendzhDa and the famous monuments of the Neolithic appeared in our list. All because of large-scale reconstruction of the monument. In 1958, Stonehenge was almost completely dismantled, after which it was collected back, using modern technology and concrete. Not to mention the fact that attempts were made to rebuild the monument and before that, since 1901, when archaeologists have raised themselves arranged the fallen stones.















4. Loch NessZdravomyslyaschim people clearly that the famous Nessie - no more than the advertised brand. In fact, the popularity of which would have to rely quite gloomy Scottish lake with boring beaches, if not the Loch Ness monster? And now here and the restaurants, hotels, and firms, and boats, and more - millions of souvenirs that also bring good income to local dealers.



5. City of Romeo and DzhulettyVerona - a real city in the northeast of Italy. Romeo and Juliet - fictional characters. Shakespeare himself wrote, the tragedy "is a brilliant example of the author's fiction." Neither the existence of Romeo and Juliet, or their lives in Verona nothing confirmed, except for the play of the English classics. But if you arrive in Verona and you will certainly show "the same" balcony on which there is a key play a love scene, and Juliet's tomb itself.



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