A walk through Valladolid The Heretic

Do not have a plan for this weekend? We suggest a very opportune. Come to the city and runs Pisuerga places where the writer Miguel Delibes set his last and best-selling novel. Deeply linked to Valladolid, Miguel Delibes reflected in his novel The Heretic daily life of the Castilian city in the mid-sixteenth century, its moment of maximum splendor. He chose a historical fact: the two great autos de fe held in the Plaza Mayor in 1559 and the schi… Continue reading

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Vacation Christmas to Paris

…The building today is used for Paris’s judicial business, which at one time this building detained many prisoners who left the Concorde Squares and beheaded. Amongst these people beheaded was the famous Queen of France, Marie Antoinette. Austria King had a sister who was also beheaded at this legendary establishment. Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755 and died in 1793. The young queen was the wife of the famous King Louis XVI. She was beheaded dur… Continue reading

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Taking an educational vacation to Paris

… He died of tuberculosis in 1795, was dumped in a common grave sight after a DR stole, pickled and returned his heart after carving it out. Two centuries later DNA test were taken when the body was found matching perfectly to Marie-Antoinette by matching some of her hair taken during her childhood. Perhaps the family would like to shop at the Palais Royal Palace formally known as Palais Cardinal where the prime minister, Cardinal Richelieu lived…. Continue reading

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Venice in the moonlight

…e masterful work of Visconti’s Death in Venice, which was shot in the opulent Hotel des Bains, crowded at the Mostra of Hollywood stars and other film professionals. It was in this hotel where Thomas Mann, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, succumbed to the beauty of the young adolescent Tadzio after spending a hot summer on the beach. Venice is a city that is lavished on nightlife, except for feasts. The largest and most well-… Continue reading

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Istanbul Cultural Capital 2010

…expansion of Sinan, the most glorious architect of the Ottoman Empire or, from July, the inauguration of the Museum Island Istanbul on one of the islands of Princes, and the Museum of Innocence that, inspired by the eponymous novel nobel Orhan Pamuk of Turkey, shows the evolution of the daily life of the city from the ’50s to today. Photography, film, visual arts and video installations by international artists-including a remarkable contr… Continue reading

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