With 50 buildings ranging from early to late Brutalism, discover Buenos Aires’s distinct architecture with Brutalist Buenos Aires Map by Blue Crow Media, the two-sided bilingual guide featuring an introduction by writer Vanessa Bell and […]
Ads This historic seaside town, which is located on the Jurassic Coast, has more than 20 beaches, but you should go straight for the expansive Weymouth Beach. Its attractions include traditional ice cream shops, fresh seafood, a land train, watersports,…
Estonia is home to the longest official ice road in Europe, a 25-km-long stretch of frozen ice along the country’s coast, where it’s illegal to wear a seatbelt and drive at medium speed. It might seem a bit bizarre to be covering a topic like ice ro…
The sand dunes behind Barril Beach on Portugal’s southern Algarve Coast are home to over 200 rusty anchors abandoned there almost 60 years ago by the local tuna fishing community. O Cemitério das Âncoras (The Anchor Cemetery) is one of the most icon…
In the words of Billie Eilish’s Bond theme: “Are you death or paradise?” Turns out Kalsoy Island of the Faroe Islands is both as James Bond’s final resting place. The location served as the explosive setting for the last time we would see Daniel…
The Areia Preta beach in the Brazilian city of Guarapari is famous for its black sand which has external radiation levels of almost 400 times the normal background radiation recorded in the US. Brazil has hundreds of miles of beaches, but none are quite…
Rohtas Fort located in Punjab, one of Pakistan’s four provinces. The construction of the fort was ordered by Sher Shah Suri, the founder of the Indian Suri Empire, though the actual work was carried out by one of his subordinates, Todar Mal. When Roht…
It’s the history that draws most visitors to Bath — be it the city’s Roman origins or the golden-hued neoclassical buildings that sprang up in the Georgian era. But if you’ve seen the Roman Baths, Bath Abbey and the Jane Austen Centre and had a …
HARBIN – An ice sculpture featuring the famed pyramid of Kukulcan in Mexico was inaugurated Wednesday at China’s largest ice-themed park in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Expanding 440 square meters, the ice sculpture …
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The pulpit, also called mimbar, of Kampung Laut Mosque is known to the oldest of its kind across Malaysia. The plan to nominate the Kampung Laut Mosque as a World Heritage Site under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultu…
Maybe I’m biased: as an archaeozoologist – an archaeologist who studies animal fossils (mostly rodents) – I like digging in the past. And I’ve worked as a museum tour guide, at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Origins Centre Museum in Joh…
Visitors get messy on a tour of the Shinan county tidal mudflat, one of several “getbol” in South Korea that have been inscribed on Unesco’s World Hertiage List. Photo: Trazy
Rome’s abundant museums, monuments, churches and important sites number in the hundreds, if not thousands. In a year of visits, you might only make a significant dent (at best) in everything there is to see here. Still, it’s possible to get a real f…
A vast array of new attractions – from a boutique hotel to an ice-cream trail are opening in Cheshire this year. And Jodrell Bank will see a new space building built at the popular site. Sweet-toothed ice-cream fans can look forward to a new trail…
Château Angélus recently acquired a new winery in Libourne, France, designed by Architect Eric Castagnotto from Architecte DPLG. The cellar is used for making Château Angélus’ second wine Carillon d’Angélus and a new wine Tempo d’Angélus in…
Returning to the Alhambra is like rereading a book. The hilltop citadel built by the Nasrid sultans above Granada, in Spain’s autonomous Andalusia region, was a masterpiece of medieval engineering, but also of literature—poetry and philosophy expres…
As you enter the mountainous village of Pera Melana in Greece’s southern Peloponnese peninsula, you’re likely to hear the roar of scooters zooming down narrow roads and the chirps of birds stealing ripe fruit from trees. But if you approach the vill…
“Pole pole.” Slowly. Spend a few days in Tanzania and you’ll hear the Swahili expression more often than you can count – when you’re trying to climb Mount Kilimanjaro at a steady clip, perhaps, or anytime you need a nudge to re…
Alex Raskin Antiques, Savannah © DanielleGrace As 2020 comes to a close, it would appear that Georgia really is ‘on our minds’ as the southern state is set to determine which party will control the American Senate on January 5th of early next year….