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http://www.hotelabanico.com/ Enjoy your breakfast in the Andalusian Patio, and start the day with coffee or tea, cocoa or chocolate, assorted breads and pastries, using free Wi-Fi in the Patio Sevillano. Monumental free city visit? Enjoy a free guided tour of the main monuments of Seville,with departures from the hotel (every day at 10.00 h. / Duration 2.5 hours / Available …

You love Sevilla? You know the excellent gastronomic experiences in this lovely city? Do not forget “Taberna El Panduro Banos” where you can find the best price-quality rapport of your town trip. Maybe you too have spent 30 euros (in two) amazed by the quality of the tapas you ordered: tuna tataki and salmon tartar. You too know the genuine …

Welcome in Seville, where waiting for you something about Pedro de Campaña (Pieter de Kempeneer). He was born in Brussels and was trained in Italy, but he is known to have been employed in the Cathedral of Seville, where he received the order from the monastery of Santa Maria de Gracia for this Descent from the Cross. His style includes …

He was born on 1827 in Basel, attending the Dusseldorf Academy. At this time he painted scenes of the Swiss Alps. In 1848, his romantic introspection gave way to plein air, after he was influenced by Corot and Delacroix. But after the June revolutions, Arnold Böcklin returned to Basel, and he resumed painting gloomy mountain scenes. He resided in Florence …

Giovanni Antonio Canal was born in Venice on 1697. His father, Bernardo, was a painter, and Canaletto appears to have assisted him. Canaletto’s name, was inscribed in the register of the Venetian artists’ guild in 1720. He adopted the diminutive “Canaletto” – the little Canal – by the mid-1720s. In 1746 Canaletto departed Venice for England where he worked for …

Although he was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Joseph Mallord William Turner, was born on 1775. He was an English Romantic landscape painter, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Extraordinarily inventive and enduringly influential, he …

Claude Monet, was a famous French painter whose work gave a name to the art movement Impressionism, which was concerned with capturing light and natural forms. He was born on 1840, in Paris. After 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet’s painting style “Impression,” since it was more concerned with form and light than realism. He struggled with depression and illness …

Helping children and families, the Innocenti in Florence has worked uninterruptedly for over six centuries, like citizen institution dedicated to taking in children. The institute waiting for you in the old hospital in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, where you can find the precious complex of the Museo degli Innocenti. http://www.istitutodeglinnocenti.it/?q=content/home To protect the rights of childhood and adolescence, but also …

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time of your life. Meeting Benches. The way to making the world a better place is easy. Where Guggenheim Museums? New York, Venice and Bilbao! Solomon R. Guggenheim, founded the Guggenheim Foundation to foster also for you an appreciation …

“Valeria Victrix“, it was the name of the Roman legion XX, the one that was headquartered on the right bank of the River Dee (south of Liverpool). But if you want to observe the Roman foundations of the ancient fortified place, this is not possible, because the walls that still surround Chester were made on precisely those ancient foundations. Visiting …