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What better place for your special occasion? Perhaps, a restaurant overlooking the Ponte Vecchio. Furniture in light tones, in a refined setting. Mediterranean cuisine with special wines from watering (preferably zero km). There is no better way to realize this. A dinner in the romantic restaurants of Florence, with panoramic views over the city or the Lungarno. A candlelight (or …

Yekaterinburg, is the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast, located in the middle of the Eurasian continent, on the border of Europe and Asia. The city was one of Russia’s first industrial cities, prompted at the start of the eighteenth century by decrees from the Tsar requiring the development in Yekaterinburg of metal-working businesses. Following the October Revolution, the family of …

It connects the European rail network at one end with either Vladivostok or the Chinese rail network at the other. A journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway should be on everyone’s bucket list. Take a look at the route map to see where the Trans-Siberian Railway goes. Moscow to Beijing (via Mongolia), is the most interesting Trans-Siberian route to take. The …

In the late 1940s, Jackson Pollock developed the technique for which he is best known—drip painting. He placed the canvas on the floor, stating, “this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.” Pollock’s abstract work was hard to decipher, but his rebellious nature and expressions of freedom were clearly evident. …

Capitalism cannibalizing this city, as in the rest of Europe, but the Latvian capital does not hide the scars of a troubled past. Do not be fooled by its austere appearance or its small, quiet streets made of cobblestones. Riga is a cauldron of life and fun, full of quirky local, modern art and contemporary art centers, restaurants, and beautiful …

A special museum, a structure that allows you to retrace the history of Italian art of the last half century (after World War II to the present), helping you find new ways of art experimentation. The Museum of Modern Art Mambo, is located in Via Don Giovanni Minzoni 14, in the historic center of Bologna. As for the times of …

He was a Norwegian painter, whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes (built upon some of the tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism). In 1881, Edvard Munch enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design of Kristiania, where experimented with many styles, including Naturalism and Impressionism. Never married, he called his paintings his children, and hated to be separated from …

René Magritte was a surrealist artist from Belgium. His reputation became well known for his various witty and thought-provoking images which are categorized as surrealism. Like the other artists and poets associated with the Surrealist movement, he sought to overthrow what he saw as the oppressive rationalism of bourgeois society. For him the painting challenges the correspondence of the image, …

He was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age, Salvador Dalí was encouraged to practice his art, and would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In 1923, Dalí was suspended from the academy for criticizing his teachers and allegedly starting a riot among students over the academy’s choice of a professorship. …

Gustav Klimt, an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. He was born near Vienna, and lived in poverty while attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. In 1888, he received the Golden Order of Merit, from Emperor Franz Josef. In …