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A Walk around Philopappos

10/08/2019 09:54
Athenian Acropolis faces a large green area which, in the heart of the Greek capital, becomes a relaxed space where walk away from the urban bustle and beneath the shade of holm oaks and cypress trees. It is Philopappos Hill. From here there are privileged views over the Parthenon, Athens and even...

Tram # 28

12/07/2019 09:39
The Portuguese capital has five tram lines in its public transport network, some of them equipped with old cars that have been reset to keep them fit. Among them the most classic is the one that follows the line number 28, able to ride up the hard slopes on the way to Alfama neighbourhood top...

Notte a Burano

24/05/2019 08:57
The night radically changes the appearance of Burano. With the last vaporetto returning to Venice disappear all the visitors who had filled the streets throughout the day. Those who wandered watching curious the windows offering the work of merletto; those who have tried the buranelli, the typical...

Las Ruinas de Corbera

03/05/2019 08:59
Corbera de Ebro se arremolinaba en torno a la colina de la Muntera protegida por las sierras de Cavalls y de Pàndols. La Batalla del Ebro devastó la población expulsando a la mayor parte de sus habitantes. Hoy, como Belchite u otros escenarios de la Guerra Civil, se han mantenido las ruinas para el...

The Ruins of Corbera

03/05/2019 08:52
Corbera d’Ebre swirled around Muntera hill protected by the mountains of Cavalls and Pandols. The Battle of the Ebro devastated the town routing most of the inhabitants. Today, as Belchite or other scenes of the Spanish Civil War before, the ruins have remained to keep the memory alive. It was...

Boston Old Burying Grounds

28/03/2019 11:47
Founded in New England in 1630, Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The arrival of Puritan settlers, the Tea Party, the Revolution War… protagonists of the birth of a nation now lie in some of the most respected US graveyards. These were the first three. Boston has preserved...

The Hepatitis Valley

01/03/2019 09:19
West of the capital, Kathmandu, and geographically in central Nepal, Pokhara has become an almost mandatory stop over for mountaineering expeditions on the way to Annapurna’s summit but has its lake, Phewa, to promote activities related with tourism. It enjoys a subtropical climate few kilometres...

Önningeby Artists Colony

08/02/2019 16:41
A Finnish painter, Victor Westerholm, director of the Turku drawing school, fell in love with Åland Islands’ landscapes, between Sweden and Finland. There he gathered other painters to form the so-called Önningeby Artists Colony. Victor Westerholm was born in Turku, Finland in January 1860 and...

The Aegina Treasury

18/01/2019 13:05
Aegina is an island not too big in the waters of the Saronic Gulf, near the Greek capital, Athens. The British Museum occupies a prominent space in the Bloomsbury neighbourhood, in the heart of London. Seventy gold jewels from the Bronze Age link both. The link is the Aegina Treasury...

Hondartza Etxea

07/12/2018 11:11
From Menorca to Guipuzcoa there an indelible connection that lasts over time, a thread of memory reinforced by some old postcards and memories of some names and places, old albums and pencil strokes not just deleted. Ciutadella’s Big Beach is barely a beach, it’s rather a pretty deep cove, named...
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