Moscow

Moscow

 The exact age of the current Russian capital is unknown. As a starting point, take the date of April 4, 1147, mentioned in a chronicle of 1420 as the day of the meeting Suzdal Prince Yuri Dolgoruky, with their allies in a town, or rather, a fortress called " moskov ". However, archaeologists argue that the excavations in the territory of the city proof that already in the eleventh century had urban activity in the area.

In the early thirteenth century Moscow became the capital of the principality of Moscow and became more important: they demonstrate the chronicles of the time talking about churches and monasteries in the area. However, the Mongol conquest of Russia, which made the country a "colony" of this Central Asian empire until the fifteenth century, devastated the city and burned.

On the other hand, the future status of capital of the Russian Empire began to take shape precisely during this period. The Prince of Moscow was the first received official authorization from the conquerors to rule the whole country, divided then in several provinces. He was also awarded the right to collect taxes from all over the Russian territory to deliver after the Mongols.

Moscow began to enrich and construction began in stone. The Russian metropolitan transferred his residence to the city and the city became a center of Orthodox Christianity.

FREAK STUFF

A legend runs through Moscow and says that there is a network of secret tunnels and underground called Metro-2 was built by order of Stalin for possible evacuation in case of nuclear attack. Officially it is not confirmed but the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) no one has ever denied. Many people think there because after some building demolitions found tunnels that nobody knew of its existence with small bunkers. It is believed that the network connecting the Kremlin with the FSB headquarters and the airport.

Tokyo

Hi everyone, and welcome to our first post.

This time, we're gonna talk about Tokyo

Today Tokyo is the most populous city, with about 38 million inhabitants, and probably the world's most important financial center. Located in the Kanto region on Honshu Island, is one of the 47 prefectures in Japan are divided.

Although Tokyo would be more correct transcription to Western language, some languages ​​like Spanish is called Tokyo. Before the Meiji restoration was known as Edo and in 1603, will replace Kyoto as government capital. It was in the nineteenth century when the city adopted its current nomenclature "Tokyo", meaning "Eastern Capital" (東 (this, to) and 京 (capital, kyō)). Interestingly, it has never reached the capital transferred legally, so it is questionable whether Kyoto does not remain the capital.

The earthquake that struck the city in 1923, gave way to a reconstruction plan, which was never completed due to excessive cost. Heavily bombed during World War II, he saw its population halved and their power was reduced to rubble. Flaunting Japanese efficiency, in just a few decades has become the benchmark cosmopolitan and technological and economic center of the world.

Tokyo can be divided, roughly, into two halves: on one side, west of the Ginza shopping area, the luxury shopping and office districts; the other, eastern, residential neighborhoods, more prosaic. Most of the sights are located in the area bounded by the JR line Yamamote, which surrounds the center of the city.

 FREAK STUFF

The Japanese are extremely quiet and one of the things that draws their attention (and less like) when traveling to other countries, especially Spain, is high spoken and how loud it is its people.

The taste for silence leads them to the point that in places such as subways or trains not use the cell phone to call, making the Japanese set their eyes on screens to play or write messages.