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 …
Read More »THE TIME ATLAS – The wonders of the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City
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 …
Read More »A INDESTRUCTIBLE TREASURE – The eye of a leopard or the terrace of the lions. You too can enter in Treasure Island, come to Delos
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 …
Read More »505 STEPS, UNIQUE IN THE WORLD – Siena: the frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Torre del Mangia
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 …
Read More »A SHELL CONTAINING THE PALIO – Piazza del Campo and Via della Galluzza, secularism and holiness, into the same walls of Siena
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 …
Read More »REMOTE, WILD AND SILENT – Travel along the north coast of Scotland
Yes, the bay is really wide. Just from that bay ferries leave for Orkney and Shetland. Thurso is really a small town, but this scenic part of Scotland’s northern coast, offers a starting point for many, very many small and valuable discoveries. Dounreay, gives the opportunity to visit the Atomic Energy Exhibition, but crossing the estuary of Stath Naver and …
Read More »3000 METERS OF SOLITUDE, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN – The archipelago of Cape Verde and the island of Fogo
Surely you’ve discovered that the downtown area has many old Portuguese houses. You know? Those noble houses of Sao Felipe are called “sobrados”, and all have a common characteristic among them are designed and built to create different spaces, for all the inhabitants of that island slave. Any color (blue or pink, yellow or green), but all the houses have …
Read More »HEAVENS 9, CARDINALS 4 POINTS, AND STEPS 365 – Welcome to Mexico, in the splendor of Chichen Itza
A city that was born in the late fifth century AD, a place that – five centuries later – was occupied by a different people, different architectures that blend harmoniously, giving to the visitor that the languages ​​of the Toltecs and Maya they can not tell. Welcome to Chichen Itza, 120 km east of Merida, Mexico. Before you can admire …
Read More »THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD – White on blue, wood and water: trip to Petrozavodsk in Russian Karelia
http://www.visitrussia.org.uk/ This is a land full of clear blue lakes and rushing rivers, with stunning waterfalls and typical monuments of the Russian north. Welcome to Karelia, Petrozavodsk, on the shore of Lake Onega (300 km north-east of St. Petersburg). “Peter’s Factory” is the meaning of the name of this city, where you can admire some beautiful wooden houses, not miss …
Read More »THE ABBEY OF MONTECASSINO, ITALY – Ora et Labora. Ancient portals and drugs documents, alongside Polish soldiers
http://www.italia.it/en/home.html Where in the ancient temple of Apollo, in the year 529 came a monaco – St. Benedict – who founded an oratory, writing his “Rule” (famous for its motto: “ora et labora”). Over the centuries, the monks have really worked and prayed so much, transforming the abbey in place of collection and cataloging of ancient documents. During the last …
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