In the northeast of Italy, the city takes a canal with a length of 45 kilometers as the "main street", 177 waterways as the "branch street", plus 2,300 water lanes and 428 bridges, making it the world's water capital.

Amsterdam

It is the capital of the Netherlands, with more than 100 islands, 100 canals and 1000 bridges. Rivers extend in all directions and yachts can be seen everywhere.

Stockholm

It is called "Venice of Northern Europe" and is the capital of Sweden. It faces the Baltic Sea in the east and Hailaerrun Lake in the west. Small island 15, with numerous waterway bridges between islands.

Suzhou

Suzhou, a water city in China, is also called Venice of the East. There are hundreds of water lanes and bridges in the city, connecting more than 200 gardens with China characteristics.

Specific introduction:

Venice

Venice is a beautiful water city, built in the most impossible place-water. The amorous feelings of Venice are always inseparable from "water", winding water lanes and flowing blue waves. It is like a romantic dream floating on the blue waves, and its poetry lingers for a long time. This city? Is Xing Huan still there? Marsh fish? What do you think of NASS? Leg beer m? What happened to the ditch? 53 years of abandonment; At that time, farmers and fishermen in Venice turned to this Adriatic island to avoid the cool nomadic people who loved swords. Venice looks like a dolphin. Its urban area is less than 7.8 square kilometers, but it is composed of 1 18 small islands. When the 177 Canal was as dense as a spider's web, these islands and the canal were connected by about 350 bridges. The whole city is connected with the Italian mainland peninsula only by a long dike.

Venice's fertile alluvial soil, stones made of local materials, and boats made of wood from neighboring inland areas shuttle through it; In the mud, the ancestors built Venice on the water. This city, which is less than 8 square kilometers, is cut into more than 100 islands by more than 100 cobweb canals. The islands are connected by various bridges at will. When you first arrive, you will soon get lost in this "water city". Fortunately, there is an S-shaped Grand Canal running through the whole city. Along this so-called "the longest street in Venice", you can enjoy the essence of Venice without worrying about getting lost. There are nearly 200 palaces, mansions and 7 churches along the coast, most of which were built in the 14 to 16 century, with Byzantine style, Gothic style, Baroque style and Venetian style. All the building foundations are submerged in the water, which looks like an art gallery rising in the water. On weekdays, the Grand Canal is really like a busy street, and all kinds of ships shuttle through it. Of course, the most unique is gondola.

Venice has the Phoenix Opera House, the lament bridge written by Xu Zhimo, the great Renaissance and Byzantine architecture, St. Kyle's Square, one of the most beautiful squares in the world, and amazing cloisters. Some of the most beautiful passages in antonioni's films were shot here. This is an important town in the Renaissance, which produced one of the most important painting schools in history: Venetian painting school; German music master Richard? Wagner died here ... The city's past glory and dreams continue to this day through well-preserved buildings. Her unique atmosphere fascinates tourists and makes all visitors to Venice unforgettable.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located on the southwest bank of Lake Ethel, with a population of 735,000 (2003). The Amstel River passes through the city, making the city a meeting point of inland water transport in Europe.

Amsterdam is a strange city. There are 160 waterways in the city, which are connected by 1000 bridges. Wandering in the city, bridges are vertical and horizontal, rivers are vertical and horizontal. From the air, the waves look like satin and cobwebs. The urban terrain is 1-5 meters above sea level, which is called "Venice in the North". There are nearly 20,000 "boathouses" on the river due to the small land and large population. In the past, almost all buildings in the city were based on wooden stakes coated with black asphalt to prevent sinking. The foundation of the palace uses 13659 stakes.

"Dan" means dam in Dutch. It was the dam built by the Dutch that gradually developed a fishing village 700 years ago into today's international metropolis. At the end of 16, Amsterdam has become an important port and trade city, and 17 has become the financial, trade and cultural center of the world once a year. 1806, the Netherlands moved its capital to Amsterdam, but the royal family, parliament, prime minister's office, central ministries and diplomatic missions remained in The Hague.

Amsterdam is the largest industrial city and economic center in the Netherlands, with more than 7,700 industrial enterprises, and industrial diamond production accounts for 80% of the world total. In addition, Amsterdam has the oldest stock exchange in the world.

Amsterdam is the second largest port in the Netherlands. This port has been completely modernized. Traffic inside and outside Hong Kong is very developed.

Flowers are an important export commodity of the Netherlands. Located in the southwest suburb of Amsterdam, Asmer Flower Market is the largest flower market in the world, with flowers sold to more than 65,438+000 countries.

Amsterdam lives on water, and water enters the city. People and water depend on each other and the scenery is natural. The unique scenery makes Amsterdam's tourism very developed.

Amsterdam is also a famous European cultural and artistic city with 40 museums. The National Museum has a collection of more than 6,543,800,000 artworks, including masterpieces by famous artists such as Rembrandt, hals and Vermeer. The Municipal Museum of Modern Art and Van Gogh Art Museum are famous for their collections of Dutch artworks from the17th century. Here, The Crooked Wheat Field and The Potato-Eating Farmer, which were completed two days before Van Gogh's death, are displayed.

1994, Amsterdam and Beijing are sister cities. Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, is almost a living museum, retaining the original appearance of the golden age. Beautiful canals interweave the scenery of "water capital", and many museums have collected the works of all famous Dutch painters. The performance at the National Concert Hall, the Palace of Classical Music, is not to be missed.

Amsterdam looks old and full of flavor. The small buildings on the third and fourth floors are carefully decorated in blue-green and red, which is as lovely as fake. The doors of these toy-like buildings are so narrow that only one person can walk in. In ancient times, there was a strange law. The bigger the door, the more tax you pay. Helpless people had to make the door as small as possible, but made the window very big, and all the furniture was hung in and out from the window. At the top of all the small buildings, there are several protruding iron hooks to fix the ropes used to lift objects.

Dense waterways separate these lovely streets, and flocks of seagulls fly in waterways and buildings, bullying ducks foraging in the water, just like Venice in the north.

Concertgebouw (Concertgebouw Plein 2-6): The National Concert Hall is the base of the orchestra of Amsterdam National Concert Hall, and the performance season is from September to June. Tickets can be bought at the Tourism Service in Leeds Square, the Amsterdam Tourism Service or the office of the orchestra.

Amstel 3: The Music Theatre is the home of the Dutch National Opera House and the National Ballet. This is a modern amphitheater, adjacent to Amsterdam city government.

Dutch casino, Max Euweplein): You need to bring your passport, and cheating is not allowed. Business hours are daily 13:30-3:00, tickets to 5 yuan.

Max Euwiplein: Lido is an imitation of the Paris Lido dinner show.

Koninklijk Paoeis (DAM):1655 When it was completed, it was the city government of Amsterdam, and now it is the Royal Hotel.

West Church (Westerkerk/Toren, Prinsengericht 28 1): Admission to the church is free. Visiting this tower requires an hourly tour guide service. The tower is 85 meters high and needs stairs. You can see a panoramic view of Amsterdam from the tower, which is worth seeing.

Heineken Brouwer Ij (Stadtouderkade 78): Heineken Beer Museum was a brewery before 1988. It takes about an hour and a half to follow the guide. After the visit, you can drink unlimited beer, which is a popular trip.

Kauste Diamond Factory: Kauste Diamond Factory is the most famous diamond factory in the world, where the diamonds in Queen Victoria's crown are cut and polished. This alone is enough to excite all women.

National Museum Vincent Van Grief Porter Stella 7: The Van Gogh Museum is near the Kauste Diamond Factory. Tickets to Van Gogh Museum are expensive, but they are worth it. There are many masterpieces of Van Gogh, such as Sunflowers and Poppies, self-portraits with and without ears, and four oil paintings made in the last year of his life. But not all the works, the incomparable Starry Night, are not here. Many other people's paintings are also displayed in the museum, all of which are masterpieces of the "Dutch painting school" in history. Like Van Gogh's early works, these paintings are dark and obscure, as if they have lost all their colors. No wonder these paintings are so dark when I think of the cloudy sky in Holland. Later generations inferred that Van Gogh painted his later works only after taking hallucinogenic drugs. Now it makes sense to think about this inference. It is incredible that such bright colors can be painted under the clouds in Holland.

In addition, some famous tourist attractions in Amsterdam include: O.Z. Vooburgwal 40 in Amsterdam, maritime museum in the Netherlands, Kattenburgerplein), Anne's House (Nmme Frankguis Prinsengracht263), Amsterdam History Museum (Kalverstraat 92) and Municipal Museum of Modern Art (Stedelijk Museum of Modren Art, P.Potter Straat 13).

Stockholm

Stockholm is the largest city in Sweden with an area of 186 square kilometers and a population of 760,000. Stockholm area includes four surrounding urban areas with a population of * * * 65438+860,000. Located on the west bank of the vast Baltic Sea, at the entrance of Lake Meralen to the sea, the urban area is distributed on 14 islands and a peninsula, and more than 70 large and small bridges connect them together, which is known as "Venice in the North".

Stockholm means "wooden island" in English. The city was built in the middle of13rd century. At that time, local residents were often harassed by pirates, so people built a castle with huge wood on an island at the entrance of Lake Meralen and erected stakes in the water to resist pirates, so the island was named "Mudao". There is a local legend about the name Stockholm, that is, a huge wood floated on Lake Meralen in ancient times, which led the first immigrants from Gatina to come here and founded the city. There is also a legend: in the past, it was desolate, and the wreckage of wrecked ships washed away by the waves piled up on the beach, so local residents fished out these broken logs and built a simple hut. Because these pieces of wood are not fragments, but pieces of wood-like waste, the built house is rickety.

1250 this broken wooden house has formed a street on the island. Foreign ships sail here for business activities. When they saw the houses in the street, they couldn't help laughing and shouted "Stockholm" casually. "Stego" means wood, "Elmo" means island, which together means "wooden island". Due to its moderate geographical location, mild climate and beautiful environment, Stockholm was designated as the capital in 1436 and gradually developed into the largest city in Scandinavia.

Stockholm has both elegant and antique features and the prosperity of a modern city. In the old city, there are resplendent palaces, magnificent churches and towering minarets, while the narrow streets and lanes show the style of medieval streets and lanes. There are many tall buildings in the new city, and the streets are neat, tree-lined and sparkling. Cars, ships, planes, osprey and seagulls are chasing each other on the ground, at sea and in the air, which adds infinite vitality to the city, while those satellite cities dotted in the distance bring people faint smoke and dreams.

Stadan Island in the southern district of Stockholm is said to be the ruins of the old city. Stockholm, an ancient city located here, is a place where tourists rush to go. Streets and alleys in the old city are paved with stones, the widest place is only 5 to 6 meters, and the narrowest place is less than 1 meter. Not only cars, motorcycles and bicycles can't pass, but two people have to sideways to make way when crossing the road. On both sides of the street are some old shops selling quaint and exquisite handicrafts and souvenirs. The Swedish Palace, the Royal Opera House, the Royal Theatre, the Parliament Building and the Stockholm City Hall are all gathered here.

The Swedish Palace was built in17th century, and it is a small square castle. In front of the palace, two bared-teeth stone lions were separated on both sides. At the gate stood several guards in red tassels and medieval uniforms more than a foot high, looking dignified and threatening. Every noon, the guards will hold a grand changing ceremony. Visitors can buy a ticket, enter the palace through the sentry, visit the gold, silver, jewels and all kinds of exquisite utensils left by Swedish kings in past dynasties, and watch the dazzling murals in the palace.

To the north of the old city is selga Square in the city center. There is a huge fountain in the center of the square. There stands a big column about 40 meters high and composed of more than 80 thousand pieces of glass, which exudes strange colors in the interweaving of sunlight and lights. King Street, queen street Street and Sylvia Street around the square are the most prosperous business districts in this city. The modern atmosphere here is in sharp contrast with the ancient city. There is a huge underground shopping mall and underground railway central station under the square, which is called "the longest underground art museum in the world". Different from Venice's "instead of walking by boat", Stockholm's underground railway runs through the seabed and extends in all directions, making it the main local means of transportation. The central station is divided into upper, middle and lower floors, and passengers can get on and off at the same time on each floor.

City Hall is located at the eastern end of King's Island in the southwest of the city center. City Hall/KLOC-The three golden crowns on the 0/05m-high spire are the symbols of Stockholm. Near the palace, there are "China Palace" and "Beihai Caotang". Beihai Caotang is a garden in China, which was built by Kang Youwei, the leader of China Reformists, when he was exiled abroad after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898.

Stockholm is also a famous cultural city. There are more than 50 museums in this city, such as National Museum, Natural Museum, Fine Arts Museum, Ancient Cultural Relics Museum, Weapons Museum and Science and Technology Museum. These are all classified and each has its own advantages. In the Skansen Open-air Museum, there are 150 huts moved from all over Sweden with different styles, which vividly show people the simple and meaningful years spent by the working people in ancient Sweden. There is also the Royal Library with a collection of/kloc-more than 0,000,000 volumes and Stockholm University with a history of/kloc-0,000 years.

Since 1809, Sweden has not been involved in various wars. During the two world wars, because Sweden was declared a neutral country and its residents lived a quiet and peaceful life as usual, Stockholm was called "the city of peace".

In the square in front of an old church in the city, people feed pigeons with bread crumbs for peace. Pigeons fly around behind others, and some even land on people's heads or shoulders, just like a quiet picture.

Stockholm is the hometown of Nobel. Nobel, who didn't go to college, studied hard and asked for advice modestly. He is famous for inventing explosives and smokeless gunpowder. He donated all his legacy and set up the Nobel Prize. From 190 1 year, the prize will be awarded once a year. At that time, a grand ceremony will be held in Stockholm Concert Hall, and the King of Sweden will personally present awards to the winners.