The tourism industry began in the early 19th century when foreigners visited the Alps, traveled to the bases of the mountains to enjoy the scenery, and stayed at the spa-resorts.

France was ridden ' clockwise ', and thus the Alps were visited before the Pyrenees.

In 1790, he took a walking tour of Europe, during which he toured the Alps extensively, and visited nearby areas of France, Switzerland, and Italy.

The beauty of the scenery, and the facilities offered to travellers by the general extension of mountain railways, make the northern side of the range, the Bernese Oberland, one of the portions of the Alps most visited by tourists.

France was visited counter-clockwise, so the Pyrenees were there before the Alps.

The city is so named because when it was first settled, the Latter-day Saint prophet Brigham Young visited and said the town reminded him of the Swiss Alps.

Tyndall visited the Alps mountains in 1856 for scientific reasons and ended up becoming a pioneering mountain climber.

Because of this, the area was also nicknamed the Jewish Alps and " Solomon County " ( a modification of Sullivan County ), by many people who visited there.

He joined the Mynydd Climbing Club in 1966 and visited the Swabian Alps in the same year, climbing in the Pennine Alps in 1968.

They then made the week-long passage on an ocean liner to Le Havre, and from there visited Paris, Monte Carlo, Genoa, Rome, Pompeii, Florence, Venice, Vienna, the Swiss Alps, Belgium, the Netherlands, and London.

Moreoever, while he was temporarily absent with his invalid wife, a youth living in his home ( a friend of his family ) committed suicide in his Barbizon cottage ; when he visited the Alps in 1863, making sketches of Mont Blanc, he became dangerously ill with inflammation of the lungs ; and when he returned to Barbizon he suffered from insomnia and became gradually weakened.

John allegedly fled across the Alps and was found in a monastery at Pisa, where in 1313 he is said to have been visited by Henry VII.

Groups visited the Alps in summer to hold ceremonies and gather the nutritious Bogong moths that shelter there.

In 1816 and 1817, he visited the Alps and Pyrenees.

He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

When Defoe visited in the mid 1720s, he claimed that the hostility towards his party was, " because they were English and because of the Union, which they were almost universally exclaimed against ".

Diderot, who had been under police surveillance since 1747, was swiftly identified as the author ... and was imprisoned for some months at Vincennes, where he was visited almost daily by Rousseau, at the time his closest and most assiduous ally.

While spending most of his time in the provinces of the Rhine area ( Germania Inferior, Germania Superior, Raetia, Noricum ), it is almost certain that, during 253 to 258, Gallienus visited the Danube area and Illyricum.

By the end of the Byzantine period, it had been almost totally destroyed ; when Ciriaco de ' Pizzicolli ( Cyriacus of Ancona ) visited Athens in 1436 he found only 21 of the original 104 columns still standing.

Stephen probably first visited England in either 1113 or 1115, almost certainly as part of Henry's court.

In the more recent years, however, the practice has spread to almost any house within a neighborhood being visited by children, including senior residences and condominiums.

After Taylor's time the site was visited by numerous travelers, almost all of whom have found ancient Babylonian remains, inscribed stones and the like, lying upon the surface.

Some critics have noted the irony of an Italian director who could not speak English, and had never even visited the United States, let alone the American Old West, almost single-handedly redefining the typical vision of the American cowboy.

In 1286, Edward visited the region himself and stayed for almost three years.

The terra Australis is therefore the southernmost of all other lands, directly beneath the antarctic circle ; extending beyond the tropic of Capricorn to the West, it ends almost at the equator itself, and separated by a narrow strait lies on the East opposite to New Guinea, only known so far by a few shores because after one voyage and another that route has been given up and unless sailors are forced and driven by stress of winds it is seldom visited.

Berlioz paid for four servants to look after her on a permanent basis and visited her almost daily.

Tompkins almost certainly never visited the county named for him.

The Festival Ship Campania, which docked in ten cities, was visited by almost 900, 000 people.

She wrote in her diary on 15 March 1910 that she couldn't understand the family's regard for Rasputin as " almost a saint " when she viewed him as only a " khlyst " Tyutcheva told Grand Duchess Xenia that the starets visited when Olga and Tatiana were getting ready for bed and sat there talking with them and " caressing " them.

After he assumed the crown of Navarre in October 1349, Charles II visited his kingdom to be anointed in summer 1350 but otherwise apart from short visits spent the first 12 years of his reign almost entirely in France ; he regarded Navarre principally as a source of manpower with which to advance his designs to become a major power in France.

The period from early to mid-April was spent sailing from Ascension Island to the Cape Verde Islands ( visited almost three years ago on the outward journey ).

In its first three years, almost 4 million tourists visited the museum, helping to generate about € 500 million in economic activity.

In 1844 he visited Liverpool, Manchester and London with almost equal success.

For example, in 1803 he spent almost a month aboard the East Indiaman ship Coutts as it visited south-east coastal ports, and in 1806 he undertook a two-month tour of the Lake District.

The shoppingcentre in Wal-Mart style ( almost without food ) company has 3, 800, 000 visitors each year which makes it Sweden's most visited place.

He visited the most isolated and secluded places, eventually discovering the little Donegal village Glencolumbkille, to which he returned annually for almost 30 years.

Sayers points out in the preface that all the places in the story are real places, and it is a fact that almost all the locations can be recognized and visited to this day.

A small number of cruising ships have visited the island, but tourism is otherwise almost nonexistent.

In 1995, she joined the Home Office as Minister of State for Prisons and visited every prison in Britain.

The island is visited every two years by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Himmler was close to his first daughter, Gudrun, whom he nicknamed Püppi (" dolly "); he phoned her every few days and visited as often as he could.

Islands like that of Tinos are renowned for possessing such " miraculous " icons, and are visited every year by thousands of pilgrims.

Due to building damage received during Hurricane Katrina the Hall of Fame is temporarily located at Gate B in the New Orleans Superdome and can be visited for free at every Saints home game.

Monuments and museums such as the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum are amongst the world's 50 most visited tourist destinations ( the Vatican Museums receiving 4. 2 million tourists and the Colosseum receiving 4 million tourists every year ).

He visited the Regiment in England during the war, and always ensured the 1st Battalion had a turkey dinner at Christmas every year they were overseas, including the Christmas of 1944 when the battalion was holding front line positions in the Nijmegen Salient.

The islands, every year, are visited by more than 1 million tourists, mainly by Americans and the most common way to get there is by sea.

Having one of the country's richest historical, natural, artistic, cultural, musical and culinary heritages, it is also one of the most visited regions of Italy, with about 60 million tourists every year ( 2007 ).

It has the second largest hotel capacity in the country and it ’ s the second-most visited place in France after Paris, receiving 4 million tourists every year.

Most shires were visited by a group of royal officers ( legati ), who held a public inquiry, probably in the great assembly known as the shire court, which was attended by representatives of every township as well as of the local lords.

The Virgin Mary, disguised as a pilgrim, is said to have visited that village and asked for food and shelter from every house of that village.

Once we've visited every element, we will no longer be able to remove any element without changing the answer from true to false ; at this point the remaining subset of the original elements must sum to zero.

* The recording of every program / folder / window opened including a screenshot of each and every website visited, also including a screenshot of each.

In 2002, Mistry cancelled his United States book tour for his novel Family Matters ( 2002 ) because he and his wife were targeted by security agents at every airport he visited, apparently because Mistry appeared to be Muslim.

Marie Louise was devoted to her son ; she had him brought to her every morning and visited him in his apartment in the course of the day.

” This wall is visited by all our brothers on every feast and festival ; and the large space at its foot is often so densely filled up, that all cannot perform their devotions here at the same time.

It is also visited, though by less numbers, on every Friday afternoon, and by some nearly every day.

Journalists sometimes visited his Gaza address and Yassin maintained a routine daily pattern of activity, including being wheeled every morning to a nearby mosque.

In Greek mythology, the Erymanthian Boar ( Greek: ὁ Ἐρυμάνθιος κάπρος ; Latin: aper Erymanthius ) is remembered in connection with The Twelve Labours, in which Heracles, the ( reconciled ) enemy of Hera, visited in turn " all the other sites of the Goddess throughout the world, to conquer every conceivable ' monster ' of nature and rededicate the primordial world to its new master, his Olympian father ," Zeus.

Philidor visited England in 1747 and decisively beat the Syrian Phillip Stamma in a match + 8 = 1 − 1, despite the fact Philidor let Stamma have White in every game, and scored all draws as wins for Stamma.

* Great Smoky Mountains National Park, southern Sevier County: Established in 1936 and propelling the tourism industry in Sevier County ever since, the national park is the most visited in the entire system, welcoming over 10 million nature enthusiasts every year, most of which arrive through Sevier County.

Many sources have testified that he taught for decades the philosophy of Avicenna in Nishapur where Khayyám was born and buried and where his mausoleum today remains a masterpiece of Iranian architecture visited by many people every year.