The Isle of Wight has been recognised as part of UNESCO‘s worldwide network of biosphere reserves, celebrated for its natural environment and managed landscapes. The title acknowledges the sustainable ways in which the locals work together to help…
Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha, is one of the world’s important spiritual sites. The place, which attracts Buddhists and tourists from around the world, boasts of over 25 Buddhist monasteries built by various countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Ge…
KARABÜK Turkey’s first coffee museum, opened by three coffee experts in the northern province of Karabük’s Safranbolu district — a UNESCO World Heritage site — to pass the 500-year-old coffee culture of Anatolia on to future generations, takes…
by croatiaweek June 15, 2019 inNews St. Nicholas Fortress has opened again to visitors ŠIBENIK, 15 June 2019 – One of Šibenik’s top tourist attractions, St. Nicholas Fortress, has opened again to visitors on Saturday after being closed for the pa…
Butetown was originally an early housing estate built in the early 19th century by John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, hence the name. The area, built to house workers for the new Cardiff Docks, is more commonly called “Tiger Bay” and one of…
They look as if they’ve risen out of the desert itself in some strange, dystopian world. There are no trees, no cars, no bus stops, no parks, no playgrounds, no people. Just the towers. In a barren landscape 50km outside of Iran’s capital city, th…
The Odyssey, one of Homer’s two great epics, narrates Odysseus’ long, strange trip home after the Trojan war. During their ten-year journey, Odysseus and his men had to overcome divine and natural forces, from battering storms and winds to…
© beatrice chapillon On the lip of a lush cliff in Aveyron hides a place exempt from logic.
A dune-like concrete shell encases the Ayla Oasis golf clubhouse in Aqaba, which Oppenheim Architecture designed to blend in with the Jordanian desert.
In 1951, Grace Robertson (born England, 1930) was despatched to record life among the sheep farmers of Snowdonia, Wales. Robertson was on her first assignment for The Picture Post magazine (1938 – 1957). She’d been hired by the periodical in 1950…
The underwater Indian village that emerges once a year 9 June 2019 Image copyright Gurucharan Kurdikar Image caption The state’s first dam submerged the village of Curdi A village in the western Indian state of Goa is only visible for one month in…
Kronstadt, which today is a city of military glory of Russia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will turn into a large-scale tourist complex. The largest navy museum in the world, a sea aquarium, diving center, scientific and educational sites will be cr…
Architecturally brilliant and historically important, these stunning mosques exude the diversity of the Islamic faith. How many are you familiar with? By Laila Achmad? and Patricea Chow-Capodieci. If a Muslim society were a family, the mosque would …
“Don’t bother visiting Brasilia if you’ve already formed an opinion and have preconceived ideas,’’ the city’s urban designer Lucio Costa once wrote. “Stay where you are. Let them say what they want, Brasilia is a miracle.” By many measur…
In 1980s Tokyo, everything was possible — or at least everything was tried out. Having developed feverishly since the end of the Second World War, Japan had by that point inflated an asset bubble so enormous that, so the story goes, the land on which …
Foto Estudio Luisita, “Adriana Parets” (1972) (all images © Foto Estudio Luisita, courtesy of Fotogalería del Teatro San Martín) BUENOS AIRES — Momentarily still on a broad staircase, covered in pink, blue, and cream stripes, the sisters and sh…
[ By SA Rogers in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ] The latest in street artist Felipe Pantone’s stunning Optochromie series splashes across the facade of the Town Ballroom concert hall in Buffalo, New York, giving it a dramatic makeover. Black a…
Amsterdam tourists can marry a local for a day, go on a date while weeding or pluck and eat a city pigeon in a new initiative designed to combat the negative effects of overtourism. Visitor numbers to Amsterdam are predicted to jump to almost 29 milli…
Hadrian’s Wall, the ancient marvel that snakes through northern England, quite rightly steals the show when it comes to the frontiers of Roman Britain. It’s a spectacular sight, rolling poetically over hillsides and serving up ruins of fortification…
[By Behzad Bagheri in Isfahan, Iran] Na’in (also known as Naein and Naeen) lies 170 km north of Yazd and 140 km east of Esfahan.It has a desert climate. In an old home An old home in Nain Some sketches from Jameh mosque of Nain Mohammadieh is…