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LEONORA CARRINGTON 1/4 – A woman who dies and is born in springtime, experiencing and creating – for almost seventy years – in Mexico. She was born into a wealthy family and moved to France, very young, fitting in the movement of the surrealist painters, where he met Max Ernst, her love, the man who was arrested by the Germans, …

A good way to understand Iceland, is to walk. Yes, because it is through contact with the ground, by measuring your strength, you can understand what is a mountain, or a river, a fjord or lake. You could start going up the Vestdalur, around Mount Bjolfur, because this is really an ideal solution to compare yourself with your energy in …

UNLEASH MEMORIES These days I think of the wind blowing through your hair, the years that I was in the world before you, and to eternity that before you go to meet, the bullets did not kill me in battle, but they killed my friends, me better because they did not live as well as I do, I think of …

Where he died the River Ness – in the Moray Firth – you can find the city of Inverness. This city in the north of Scotland, is waiting for you in the third week of August, to give you the show of the popular festival called “Northern Meeting”. Walking down Church Street you can see some ancient building, but I …

THE BORDER I am seeking the principle of evil, as a child I tried the margins of the rain. With all ran forces, to find the place where to sit on the ground, and contemplate the one part rain, on the one hand no rain. But always the rain stopped, before they found out the boundaries, and began again, first …

ELASTIC HEART And another one bites the dust Oh why can I not conquer love And I might have thought that we were one Wanted to fight this war without weapons And I wanted it, I wanted it bad But there were so many red flags Now another one bites the dust Yeah let’s be clear, I’ll trust no one …

FORGIVE THE MOON Sour, mutilates, over large areas, perhaps the tenth time so, as a clumsy stripped wanderer, passing the Moon. On its face, the tired smile of old rascals, and under her, the camp gets up with a sentence that is lost in sighs. plain covered with wounds, sterile and lean, in a subdued light, ironic, the moon bathes …

You think getting into a Museum of Anthropology is a useless thing? Perhaps, you have not had a chance to get into the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. What you find inside that special place (considered, for its museological conception, one of the best museums in the world), it came back to sunlight during archaeological excavations citizens. Looking …

In 2000 BC they arrived on Mount Kynthos the first inhabitants of this island. Since then, many events filled with memories the island of Delos, famous in the 700 a. C. for its sanctuary of Apollo. The Romans they arrived here in 250 BC, and to protect the site from the pirates, it was fortified (after the sacking of the …

LOVE My soul was a light blue dress color of the sky. I left him on a cliff, at the sea, and naked I came to you, resembling a woman. And as a woman, I sat at your table, and I drank a cup of wine, I breathed in the scent of roses. You found me beautiful, that I looked …

A PORT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN I do not know what is more important, the spicy sweetness of bitter coffee, mixed with the taste of the first cigarette in the morning, or the smell of fish and boats, freshly painted. The washed clothes on the wire, between the almond trees in bloom, or the mountains that put them in prominence. No, …

AMBROGIO LORENZETTI 1/4 – He is one of the masters of the fourteenth century Sienese school, a painter who has remained famous for the strong allegorical component of his work. Observing what he paints, you can admire the humanity of the subjects represented. He died in 1348, the plague that decimated the population of Europe. In his will, he has …

This building, even now, is the seat of the municipality of Siena, but you need not worry, because the halls of this extraordinary medieval building are open to the public. I am absolutely convinced that you are happy to have spent your energy to climb the Torre del Mangia. That tower, completed in 1348 by the brothers Francesco and Minuccio …

Piazza del Campo, is where you can find all the major monuments of the city. Just like Rome, this city is built on hills, so when you begin to walk in the streets of Siena, even now you know that you will find challenging climbs and descents pleasant. Of one thing you can be sure: do not get bored. In …