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The Best Attractions In North-Eastern Region

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The Atlantic Time Zone is a geographical region that keeps standard time—called Atlantic Standard Time —by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time , resulting in UTC−04:00. During part of the year, some portions of the zone observe daylight saving time, referred to as Atlantic Daylight Time , by moving their clocks forward one hour to result in UTC−03:00. The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 60th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. In Canada, the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island are in this zone, though legally they calculate time specifically as an offset of ...
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The Best Attractions In North-Eastern Region

  • 4. Cathedral of Our Lady of Carmen Maturin
    The Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Cathedral of Maturín It is a Catholic temple located in Maturín, Monagas state, in Venezuela. It is one of the largest and best decorated churches in the country, plus the height of its domes, is considered the second highest in Latin America preceded by the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. Its construction began on July 16, 1959, on the day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and was inaugurated 22 years later, on May 23, 1981. Maturín City Council donated the land where the cathedral was built. The construction supervision was the then Ministry of Public Works. The pilot was executed by the contractor and the architect Francisco Baceta Ernesto Prall, who dealt with the design of the work and prepare the construction drawings and struct...
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  • 5. Araya Castle Araya
    The recapture of Bahia was a Spanish-Portuguese military expedition in 1625 to retake the city of Salvador da Bahia in Brazil from the forces of the Dutch West India Company . In May 1624, Dutch WIC forces under Jacob Willekens captured Salvador Bahia from the Portuguese. Philip IV, king of Spain and Portugal, ordered the assembly of a Spanish-Portuguese fleet with the objective of recovering the city. Sailing from the port of Lisbon, under the command of Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Mendoza, who was appointed Captain General of the Army of Brazil, the fleet crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and arrived at Salvador on April 1 of 1625. The town was besieged for several weeks, after which it was recaptured. This resulted in the expulsion of the Dutch from the city and the nearby areas. The city w...
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