Eric Lurio

Member since April 2014

#280 193 34 5

My most impressive site: Uluru (it looks like a giant chunk of chocolate just after sunset

My proposal for a new site: The Kaaba.

Recent Visits
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    Bamberg, Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust, Central University City Campus of the UNAM, Cologne Cathedral, …
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    Jan. 1, 2024
    Visit nominated site: Central Park, Old Town of Jakarta, The Palaces of King Ludwig II
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    Jan. 1, 2020
    Wooded meadows

About Eric Lurio

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Reviews by Eric Lurio

Vienna by Eric Lurio

Vienna (Inscribed)

Vienna

Once upon a time, two centuries and a bit, The German world was split in two, the Hapsburg Slavic lands and and the archduchess and kingdoms that would wind up …

Schönbrunn by Els Slots

Schönbrunn (Inscribed)

Schönbrunn

When his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Franz Josef the 1st, by the Grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and …

Budapest by Eric Lurio

Budapest (Inscribed)

Budapest

AS to the capital of Hungary, it’s not as old as it’s supposed to be. Budapest, pronounced Buda-Pescht, only dates to 1873, and most of the oldest architecture …

Early Chicago Skyscrapers by Eric Lurio

Early Chicago Skyscrapers (On tentative list)

Early Chicago Skyscrapers

I'm not too sure about this one. They're mostly nondescript office buildings (okay, one has apartments) which I checked out after the Democratic convention. There are three of them right …

Burgos Cathedral by Eric Lurio

Burgos Cathedral (Inscribed)

Burgos Cathedral

I went there last week, as we were on a different tour and had some time, we stopped by and we had enough people to get a discount.

As …

Old Havana by Els Slots

Old Havana (Inscribed)

Old Havana

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The crowd at the Castle of the Three Kings of the Orient is larger than one would expect for a daily event, but the evening is lovely and there’s …

Dubrovnik by Els Slots

Dubrovnik (Inscribed)

Dubrovnik

Once upon a time there was a land called Yugoslavia. It was full of enchanted forests and beautiful scenery and was ruled by an enlightend despot named Joseph Broz Tito. …

Old City of Jerusalem by Solivagant

Old City of Jerusalem (Inscribed)

Old City of Jerusalem

Jerusalem is too damn holy for it’s own good. I’m not saying everyone who lives there is nuts, that’s obviously not the case, but it just seems that way. But …

Independence Hall by Eric Lurio

Independence Hall (Inscribed)

Independence Hall

In the spring of 1799, the city of Philadelphia, PA was bureaucrat heaven. The State, Local and Federal governments were for the most part sharing the same space, and the …

Stone Town of Zanzibar by Els Slots

Stone Town of Zanzibar (Inscribed)

Stone Town of Zanzibar

This was written in 1989, when I was first starting out....

Mr.Mitu's Botanical Safaris

By Eric Lurio

Zanzibar. You start with a name. Everybody's heard of it somewhere. A mythical …

Persepolis by Carlo Sarion

Persepolis (Inscribed)

Persepolis

The pre-Islamic heritage of the middle east and central Asia hasn't always been as appreciated by Moslems as it is now, note the notorious destruction of the Giant Buddha's in …

Pasargadae by Carlo Sarion

Pasargadae (Inscribed)

Pasargadae

On our way from Shiraz to Istfahan, we stopped at the tomb of Cyrus in Parsagad. there were some bas reliefs of a guy in a fish suit and a …

Québec by Carlo Sarion

Québec (Inscribed)

Québec

I've been to Quebec twice, the second time I got lost and nearly missed the cruise ship. The first time, in 2001, there was a war going on....

The 2001 …

Timbuktu by Roman Bruehwiler

Timbuktu (Inscribed)

Timbuktu

Let's just call it the third pole. Timbuktu was one of those places of legend that it was impossible to get to. That is until the turn of the 19th …

Statue of Liberty by Eric Lurio

Statue of Liberty (Inscribed)

Statue of Liberty

As far as national icons go, Frédéric Bartholdi’s Liberty Enlightening the World is the ultimate. It is a symbol of what this nation is supposed to stand for, for the …

Vatican City by Solivagant

Vatican City (Inscribed)

Vatican City

One of the coolest things that a tourist can do is to see an entire foreign country…All of it…From one end of the other.

This is activity that can literally …

Venice and its Lagoon by Els Slots

Venice and its Lagoon (Inscribed)

Venice and its Lagoon

Among the weirdest cities in the World, Venice, Italy must rank among the top five. I don’t mean this in a BAD way actually, but the place is completely so …