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Via Domitia

23/03/2016 10:12
Driving along A9 motorway through French Languedoc region, occasionally a sign reminds that we are running on the ancient Via Domitia, a Roman road that linked the province of Tarraco in Hispania with Cisalpine Gaul, from the Pyrenees to the Alps. A route that Greeks attributed to hero Heracles,...

The Island of Madeira

10/03/2016 09:18
Madeira is an extremely mountainous island with peaks almost reaching 6,500 feet above sea level and then dropping sharply over valleys, gorges and cliffs, to the point that one could say the airport is literally upon the sea waves because there’s no place anywhere else to be build. That’s no fully...

The Medina of Tunis

26/02/2016 09:23
Its narrow alleys combined with mosques courtyards’ breadth and madrasas, their Ottoman minarets and ancient souks earned in 1979 to the medina of Tunis joining the Heritage of UNESCO. Tynes was once an insignificant place which not even would deserve to be called a village. Here the Roman general...

Bremen, Museums & Musicians

11/02/2016 15:36
The city joined intermittently to the trade federation known as Hanseatic League, from its harbour sailed thousands of migrants bound for the new world and there came to shelter the famous musicians heroes of Brothers Grimm tale. Today, not far to being a city-state, is along its port, Federal...

The Tower Bridge

29/01/2016 11:19
Neither the latest nor the greatest, but it is certainly the best recognized by the structure of the two neo-Gothic towers that support it. Its the silhouette contained in some famous Brit comedies logo. Tower Bridge is crossed daily by over forty thousand people and is a consolidated icon of the...

Carmen and the Chocolate Hills

15/01/2016 10:04
Looks like a children’s tale name and practically it is. Once upon a time there was an island surrounded by more islands where two angry giants start to fight throwing stones each other. Such was their displeasure that the fight lasted for days and days until finally both realizing that will be no...

Florence from the Campanile

23/12/2015 19:07
Visitor is warned. There is no elevator. In return there is any other thing than 414 steps leading inexorably to the top of the Giotto’s bell tower, 270 feet above the ground. Following one after another, passing through narrow windows that provide an indication about the view that will extend...

Exhausting Saint Sulpice

10/12/2015 10:46
George Perec, the inimitable writer born in Paris, in his effort to describe things that are not worth telling, that what happens when nothing happens, tried to take a census and list about whatever existed or happened in Saint Sulpice Square. All this ended embodied in the publication, in 1975, An...

From New Amsterdam to New York

20/11/2015 11:46
Dutch attempts to settle in the New World were not crowned with overwhelming success. Apart from a territory in the Amazon South America, Surinam, retained until 1975 and some Caribbean islands in the Lesser Antilles, others were various adventures and curious anecdotes. Some with...

From Machado to Brassens

02/11/2015 10:28
The Pyrenean border witnessed the passage of tens of thousands of people fleeing the totalitarian barbarism. Massively northwards after the fall of Barcelona. Occasionally southwards when that same barbarism swept most of Europe. Before the Galician General troops parade through Barcelona's...
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