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Located in Paris, Le Louvre or Grand Louvre is known to be the most popular art museums across the globe. This historic monument is home to around thirty five thousand historical objects that include prehistoric remains to artifacts of nineteenth century.

 

Egyptian Museum or the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, located in Cairo was founded with the attempt of preventing the plunder of archaeological places. It displays some of the pre-historic artifacts. If you visit this museum, you should check out the artifacts of royal family as well sculpture pieces of the Sphinx.

The national museum of Dutch, Rijksmuseum, located in Netherlands displays some marvelous painting pieces of the Dutch Golden Age. Though it displays some of brilliant works of art and crafts, Rembrandt’s creation of The Night Watch is known to be the most popular artworks this museum hosts.

Located in Washington D.C., the Smithsonian boasts of having the largest museum space in the world. The research and education institute of the country, which also includes museums and a zoological garden, is a major tourist destination. Records state the museum holds a collection of around one hundred and thirty six million objects.

Located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the Hermitage Museum or the State Hermitage displays historical masterpieces dating back to some three hundred years. The museum, which has a collection of around three million items, not only displays art works of the past: it also displays a wide range of ancient jewelries.

Founded by Pope Julius II, the Vatican Museums are listed among the greatest museums. If you visit these museums, you will be able to witness some brilliant sculptures. Not only that, the art masterpieces of Renaissance period is also on display here.

The British Museum, which was initially based on the works of scientist and physician, Sir Hans Sloane, now boasts of having a collection of over seven million different items. The museum, which was first opened to public in 1959, now attracts people for its huge collection of works on human culture and human history.

Uffizi, located in Florence, is one of the most popular and among the oldest art museums of Western world. Botticelli’s work, The Birth of Venus, is the most popular attraction of this museum. Yet, you should not miss the brilliant works of Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Caravaggio or Raphael, which are also displayed in this museum.

The Met or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, located in New York City, boasts of displaying a collection of over two million art works. For a proper tour of the museum, the authorities have classified the collection into 19 different curatorial sections. The museum is also known for hosting works of different noted artists.

Located in Madrid, Museo del Prado was initially founded as a museum for sculptures and paintings. However, later collection of medals, coins, prints and drawings have been added to its collection. Yet, it is still known for the Fernando Yanez’s painting, ‘Saint Catherine’ and ‘The Last Supper’ by Juan de Flandes.

 

 

Brazil is a South American country with a large reserve for natural resources. Brazil is the 3rd fastest growing economy after China and India and has come up a lot in terms of growth. Brazil is a beautiful country which is home to many species of animals and birds. On the other hand Brazil is a beautiful country with amazing landscapes. Brazil is a popular tourist destination and is indeed a place worth visiting. Brazil’s natural beauty and the rich heritage make it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. Here is a list of the top ten tourist destinations in Brazil and places you must not miss.

Ilha Grande is a popular tourist destination on the southern coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Ilha Grande is the ideal destination for those seeking a close contact with nature. Ilha Grande is a mountainous tropical island where no cars are allowed; an island covered by a dense tropical rainforest (mata atlantica) for most of its extension; hiking paths crossing the island from north to south and east to west; idyllic beaches and crystal-clear waters. Ilha Grande is definitely not for those keen on sophistication, shopping and a thriving night life.

Ilha de Boipeba (Boipeba island), or simply Boipeba, is one of those beach destinations that still maintains an air of isolation and remoteness. A quiet village where no cars can be found and an island full of fabulous beaches await you at Boipeba, a few hundred meters south of the island of Tinhare, where the popular Morro de Sao Paulo is found.

The Iguazu falls are an unavoidable stop in the itinerary of most visitors to both Brazil and Argentina. In spite of its popularity and overcrowding during certain times of the year, the beauty of the falls is so captivating that you don’t need to make a big effort to forget the crowds and enjoy the place. Some of the most amazing points in Iguazu falls are the Devil’s Throat, on the Argentinian side of the falls; the walkways on both sides of the falls; the Buddhist temple in Foz do Iguaçu; the Parque das Aves right next to the entrance to the Brazilian National Park.

The archipelago of Fernando de Noronha is Brazil’s closest spot to Paradise. 300 km away from the north east coast of the country, Noronha concentrates places of unrivalled beauty. On top of that, Noronha is a rare place where preserving the environment is the foremost concern for its inhabitants. The archipelago is formed is formed by the main island, inhabited, and a series of smaller islands. Part of the archipelago forms the Maritime National Park of Fernando de Noronha. UNESCO declared Noronha a World Natural Heritage Site in 2001.

Paraty is a very special place of Brazil. Situated between the Atlantic rainforest and the sea, Paraty is one Brazil’s worst kept secrets. Places and things you would love about the Paraty is the historic village and the state of conservation of the historical heritage; the absence of cars in the historic village; the gorgeous beaches; being able to walk on the streets at night; the relaxed atmosphere; the boat trips; the ginger ice cream from Ice Paraty ice-cream parlour; the high tide that floods the streets; dining by candlelight with live music

The Lencois Maranhenses are one of the most wonderful places in Brazil. The beauty of the region, and the fact that mass tourism hasn’t reached it yet, explain why the Lencois cause such a profound impact on its visitors. The Lencois (in Portuguese, sheets), are a large desert in the state of Maranhao. These are the world’s most amazing desert and are indeed different. Between June and September the dunes share the space with lagoons formed by the accumulation of water fallen during the rainy season.

Bonito is a very popular ecotourism destination not very well known outside Brazil. The main reason for its relatively unknown status outside Brazil might be due to its remote location. Bonito is a village in the southernmost part of the Pantanal, 300 km away from the nearest major airport (Campo Grande). Things you would love about this beautiful place are the crystalline waters of the rivers around Bonito, snorkelling surrounded by fish, the apparent concern for the environment.

Morro de São Paulo is a small village on the island of Tinharé, 60 km south from Salvador, in the state of Bahia. You would really like to spend the day at the 4th Beach during the low tide, to have dinner at the main street on the Vila and see the sunset from the Morro or the Fort and then watch the dolphins feed at the bay. Morro is divided into beaches and everyone refers to them by their name. You can see their location at the Google map as well.

Arraial d’Ajuda is the charming neighbour of that magnet for mass tourism that is Porto Seguro. The river separating Arraial from Porto Seguro keeps away from the former the worst excesses of the later. Places you would like the most in Arraial d’ Ajuda the beaches, to walk long the rua do Mucugê at the end of the day; the open-air restaurants; having some delicious caipirinhas with our friends at the bar Girassol.

Jericoacoara is a destination with a mythical status among tourists. Its success lies on the difficult access and the achievements of its habitants in defending the village from the attacks of unsustainable tourism. The trip run by some reckless delinquents to catch seahorses (a protected species); the bar at the Lagoa da Torta where minute lobsters are sold; a travel agency (with the name of an Australian animal) that runs awful trips in Jericoacora.

A Master of Business Administration amount is a agreement of a abundant career in the fields of Finance, Marketing or Human Resources. No admiration that acceptance every year are analytical to acquisition out the top  Universities of the Apple with a abundant MBA program. The stalwarts of the business schools vie with anniversary added for the rankings. The top accumulate alive places up and bottomward the account but contrarily the afterward ten business schools are the accustomed leaders of the apple in the acreage of business education.

The number three ranking goes to Harvard Business School which was established in the year 1908. Harvard is a private business school with an endowment of more than two billion dollars. It has more than eighteen hundred students in its MBA programs. It is located at Boston but is on the other side of the Charles River from the rest of the University. A very quaint feature of all the buildings at Harvard is that they are connected by underground tunnels. The attributes expected from successful Harvard MBA programs include leadership, intellectual curiosity and a concern and desire to serve the world community.  Harvard is famous for its case study method of teaching in the business school.

Stanford Graduate School of Business ranks fourth in the MBA list. It was established in 1925 and is located at Stanford, California. It has one of the largest endowments at more than a billion dollars. A star cast of Nobel Laureates, members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences, makes up the faculty of this prestigious college. It is very selective in its system of admission for its students and has the lowest rate of acceptance in the world, that is, it only selects 6.8% of all the students who apply for its MBA. It has less than four hundred students per year, a near one fifth of the students at Harvard. Its former students include Ben Bernanke, Phil Knight founder of Nike and President John F. Kennedy.

The number five spot in MBAs goes to INSEAD (Institut Europeen d’Administration des Affaires) or European Institute of Business Administration. It is located on three campuses in the world. In Europe it is at Fontainebleau, near Paris in France. In Asia it is situated in Singapore and in the Middle East at Abu Dhabi. It is generally recognized as the top business school for the one year program in the world. The MBA offers all the core subjects like Finance, Marketing and Accounting. The program includes case studies, lectures, tutorials and simulations. The business school was established in 1957 and has nearly nine hundred MBA students every year. It is fast coming up as a threat to the top three.

The sixth spot goes to the Columbia Business School. It was established in 1916 in Manhattan, New York. It has close links with Wall Street. Like Stanford it has many Nobel Laureates on its faculty.  Indeed it is somehow linked to thirteen winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics. A Barton Hepburn a President of the famous Chase Manhattan Bank founded the college and the MBA was authorized only in 1945 by Columbia Business School. Majors are offered in Accounting, Marketing, Finance and Economics, Human Resource Management and Social Enterprise. There is a special program in Entrepreneurship. Warren Buffet is a famous ex student of Columbia Business School.

Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (Institute of Higher Business Studies) is the business school of the University of Navarra in Spain.  It is ranked number seven in the list of MBAs and the campuses are located in Barcelona and Madrid with centers also in New York and Munich. The business school has the blessings of the Catholic Church and Opus Dei. Its endowment is almost 33 million dollars. It was established in 1958 and is governed by an international board which consists of chairmen of the Deutsche Bank, Banque de France, Siemens and Infosys Technologies.

The MBA at London Business School has been elbowing out the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania for the number one spot for the last two years and looks like it is going to hold on to this place for the year 2011. Successful candidate to this business school have a score above 700 in the GMAT. LBS as it is called is a member college of the University of London and is situated centrally in London beside Regent’s Park. A thousand students from at least a hundred and thirty countries of the world graduate from this business school every year.

The number two spot goes to Wharton School which is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania. It is the first business school in the United States of America and was established in 1881. It is a very selective school in its student enrolment and depends on a high GPA and GMAT scores for its selection besides other criteria. Since 2009 it accepts the GRE along with GMAT for its admissions. The first collegiate MBA in the world was established by Joseph Wharton a Philadelphia industrialist. The Wharton School offers nineteen majors which are admirably taught by 250 members of the faculty. The concentration of subjects includes, finance, marketing, human resources, business ethics and legal studies.

MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five colleges of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is number eight in the list of world MBA colleges. It was established in 1914 and has an endowment of more than 650 million dollars. Like other US business school MIT Sloan also has had numerous Nobel Prize winners on its faculty and the school is very famous for economic research and has been the nursery for famous finance and management theories like Theory x and Theory y or The Random Walk Hypothesis. More than nine hundred MBAs pass out from this great school every year. Its former students include Kofi Anan, Carly Fiorina and Benjamin Netanyahu.

University of Chicago Booth School of Business has the third largest endowment amongst US business schools and amounts to 800 million dollars. It was earlier known as the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business but after a donation of 300 million dollars by a former student David G Booth it was renamed in 2008. The concentrations or majors offered are in Accounting, Analytical Finance, Economics, Human Resource Management and Finance. The school is one of the oldest having been established in 1898.

The Schulich School of Business at Toronto, Canada is the number ten in the list of the top global MBA colleges. It is part of York University and was established in 1966. It was originally known as Faculty of Administrative Studies but was renamed after it got a donation of15 million dollars from Seymour Schulich. The number ten position has been rightfully claimed on the college’s ability to place students in new career opportunities and for its global value.