Romania is a country of contrasts. http://romaniatourism.com/ Over the years, the country has belonged to the Romans (who gave the country its name), the Hungarians and the Ottomans. It is filled with quaint old towns, with mountain resorts that offer great skiing. It’s most famous citizen, may be the vampire Dracula (a fictional character found in Transylvania). Originally part of …

Romanian culture, certainly was heavily influenced by the Eastern Orthodox Church. The earliest translated books into Romanian were Slavonic religious texts from the 15th century, and the first book printed in Romania was a Slavonic religious book in 1508. In the Romanian lands, dominated by the Ottoman Empire, they decided not to allow Romanian rulers, but through Greek merchants of …

Mircea Cartarescu was born in 1956, is one of Romania’s leading novelists and poets. Like most of his literary contemporaries of the avant-garde Eighties Generation, his major work has been translated into several European languages. Graduated from the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Letters, between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher (and then at the Writers …

From Turin beginnings, the adhesion to the poetics of Futurism, this is the name of an art exhibition that takes place in Italy. Until February 27, 2017 you can go to Alba, where – in the spaces of Fondazione Piera Pietro and Giovanni Ferrero – are on display one hundred masterpieces, through which it will be possible to reconstruct the …

What happens when you suspend a giant ball, above a city walkway, during the night? Maybe people look up from their phones, with new attention to the world around them. Says its creator (the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, known for his whimsical urban installations), that its positive artistic statement, connects people to their childhood. You need to remember that the …

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …

FEDERICO FARUFFINI 1/3 – His work is seen as a moment of transition between pictorialism and the Scapigliatura. He was an Italian painter of historical subjects, in a style that combines the themes of Realism with the outlines colors of Scapigliatura painters. Born inside the metropolitan area of Milan, he trained with Trecourt in Pavia. Until 1848, he attended the …