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THE TRUE TRIP – Malaga, Spain, because “viajar es vivir”

Where to live intense experiences, with new eyes Come to Spain, where you will remember I have seen dawn and sunset on windy hills, coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes. Here you will discover how easy it is to make friends, because it is like a dream to come to Spain, where get somebody to teach you Spanish …

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WHERE THE STONES SPEAK – Author’s journey to Scotland

Shades of Scottish creativity Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newarthill, Tipton, Dalkeith and Gretna Green. Welcome where creativity is able to manifest itself in places full of history, but also in remote villages wrapped in the scent of salt. Among the many possibilities of a trip to Scotland https://www.visitscotland.com/, there is a special one, but to live it you will need to …

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IN DIFFERENT MEDIA – Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, one of the key figures in the emergence of the ‘Glasgow Style’ in the 1890s

Glasgow style and Viennese Art Nouveau  English painter, illustrator and decorator operating in Scotland, she is also remembered for her important interior designs, made with her husband. She was born in Tipton, near Wolverhampton (metropolitan district of the English West Midlands) on a day of November 1864. The beginning of her artistic career reflects experimental features. Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh‘s https://www.posterlounge.com/artists/margaret-macdonald-mackintosh/ …

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FINE TASTE SUBJECTS AND SKILL PICTURES – Robert Turnbull Macpherson, the father of photography, in the Eternal City

I am a photographer, without any feeling that by doing, so I have abandoned art At the beginning of the 1860s, his photographic career was at the zenith, with exhibitions in Edinburgh and London. Nothing is know about the childhood of this Scottish photographer, but we have news of him about his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh. Robert …

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WHEN CLOTHES BECOME OBJECT OF DESIRE – Christopher Kane: When, with the obsession with dangerous animals, the inspiration comes from a film about monkeys

Tight jersey dresses, scary baboons and monkeys Among his most famous and recognizable garments, printed dresses and t-shirts. Many celebrities, as if Jessica Alba and Diane Kruger love his creations. At school, as a child he loved being in the art classroom, designing clothes and models from catalogs. He was born in Newarthill, a Scottish town in North Lanarkshire, into …

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SHE WAS NOT A PERSON TO WHOM THINGS HAPPEN – Muriel Spark, writer by humorous and slightly unsettling fantasy

Satire and wit, around serious themes To her, education was a leading out of what is already there in the soul. Born in Edinburgh in 1918, she attended a girls’ high school there. In 1935, Muriel Spark https://murielspark100.com/ graduated in summary writing, teaching English and worked as a clerk in a department store. She married following her husband in present-day …

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THIS IS THE LIFE – Amy Macdonald, the singer-songwriter who put a fruit of her creativity online for free

Doing what you like, without praying to anyone Francis Healy, frontman of Travis, is her greatest source of inspiration. Born in 1987, she achieved international success with her first album. For the use she makes of her own voice, she has been brought up to Alison Moyet. She is a Scottish singer-songwriter from Glasgow. 5 years after the last album, …

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PRINCES, LORDS AND HONEST MEN – Travel Scotland, where you will wink at your small faults

Better be the lucky man, than the lucky man’s son Fascinating ruins of a fortress that has its roots in 1,000 years of history https://www.visitscotland.com/. There is the reconstruction of a catapult, and you could find a bagpiper. A splendid combination of history and natural beauty, near Loch Ness, Urquhart Castle https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/urquhart-castle/ continues to be heavily photograph, but you will …

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WHERE SECRETS TRAVEL FAST – Wherever you go, it stays with you, for Paris is a long creative feast

Walk about Paris, because will provide you lessons in beauty and taste Oh, Paris! There is no place like the city of lights, right? Or is it the City of creativity? Among the many ways of getting to know a city, we have created one that will powerfully involve your way of smelling, tasting and being involved. Before starting to …

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PERFECTLY PAINTING PARISIAN LIFE, BETWEEN BOULEVARDS AND CAFES – Jean Béraud, the most Parisian of the Impressionists

A gallant painter man, always guided by the highest precepts of honor and taste He enjoyed success throughout his career, though he was forgotten at the time of his death, due to a general lack of interest in Belle Époque painters. He was one of Marcel Proust’s witnesses in a duel that took place in 1897, due to an article …

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