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Guinness Book

Greek Town of Livadia Enters Guinness Book of Records

2018-05-31 by Aleksandr Shatskih

souvlaki

Τhe town of Livadia in Viotia Prefecture, Central Greece has broken the Guinness Book of Records for the longest souvlaki ever cooked. The town famous for its rotisseries has shattered a previous record for meat skewering held by China.

Tags: Boeotia, Greece, Greek towns, Guinness, Guinness Book, Guinness Book of Records, Livadia, records, souvlaki, Viotia Prefecture

Sochi’s Alpine Festival BoogelWoogel Tops Guinness Record [Video]

2016-04-10 by Phil Butler

BoogelWoogel

The BoogelWoogel Festival held at Rosa Khotur ski resort outside Sochi, Russian Federation set a new Guinness Book World Record April 9th. More than 1000 skiers clad in bathing suits descended the slopes there, shattering an old record set in Siberia.

Tags: BoogelWoogel, BoogelWoogel Festival, Guinness Book, Nina Zotina, Rosa Khotur, skiing, Sochi

Sun Plaza – Romania’s Guinness Book Poster Child

2011-02-21 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sun Plaza in the Spring season

Located in Bucharest, Romania, the Sun Plaza shopping center is an indoor shopping complex that landed a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in November of 2010, when it displayed an indoor Christmas lights decoration featuring 449,658 light bulbs.

Tags: Baumax, Bucharest attractions, Bucharest Christmas, Bucharest travel, Flanco, Guinness Book, Mobexpert, Romania tourism, Romania travel, Romanian records, Sun Plaza Mall

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