March of the Living

24 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Gatehouse Auschwitz II (Birkenau) © Oleg Yunakov/cc-by-sa-4.0

Gatehouse Auschwitz II (Birkenau) © Oleg Yunakov/cc-by-sa-4.0

The March of the Living is an annual educational program which brings students from around the world to Poland, where they explore the remnants of the Holocaust. On Holocaust Memorial Day observed in the Jewish calendar (Yom HaShoah), thousands of participants march silently from Auschwitz to Birkenau.   read more…

Theme Week Odesa – Bristol Hotel

24 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Hotels Reading Time:  5 minutes

© Сарапулов/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Сарапулов/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Bristol Hotel is a hotel in Odesa, Ukraine. Built between 1898 and 1899, it is located in the city centre in Italiiska Street, opposite the Odesa Philharmonic Theater. This stylish four-star 19th century hotel belongs to the same company as the nearby four-star Londonskaya Hotel which is roughly half the size.   read more…

Lamborghini Museum in Sant’Agata Bolognese

24 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  3 minutes

© Joseolgon/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Joseolgon/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Museo Lamborghini (or Lamborghini Museum) is an automobile museum owned and operated by Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The two-storey museum opened in 2001, and was renovated in June 2016 to provide exhibit space for more models.   read more…

Theme Week Odesa – Odesa National Fine Arts Museum

23 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  7 minutes

© Alex Levitsky & Dmitry Shamatazhi/cc-by-sa-3.0

© Alex Levitsky & Dmitry Shamatazhi/cc-by-sa-3.0

Odesa National Fine Arts Museum or Odesa National Art Museum is one of the principal art galleries of the city of Odesa in Ukraine. Founded in 1899, it occupies the Potocki Palace, itself a monument of early 19th century architecture. The museum now houses more than 10 thousand pieces of art, including paintings by some of the best-known Russian and Ukrainian artists of late 19th and early 20th century. It is the only museum in Odesa that has free entrance day every last Sunday of the month.   read more…

Portrait: William Wallace, a Guardian of Scotland

23 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Portrait Reading Time:  6 minutes

Sir William Wallace by David of Buchan

Sir William Wallace by David of Buchan

Sir William Wallace (Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas, Norman French: William le Waleys) was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence.   read more…

Theme Week Odesa – Potemkin Stairs

22 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  11 minutes

© Oleksandr Malyon/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Oleksandr Malyon/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Potemkin Stairs, Potemkin Steps, or, officially, Primorsky Stairs are a giant stairway in Odesa, Ukraine. They are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odesa. The stairs were originally known as the Boulevard steps, the Giant Staircase, or the Richelieu steps. The top step is 12.5 meters (41 feet) wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 meters (70.8 feet) wide. The staircase extends for 142 meters, but it gives the illusion of greater length.   read more…

Dance notation

22 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Paris / Île-de-France Reading Time:  5 minutes

© Friedrich Albert Zorn - Huster/cc-by-sa-3.0

© Friedrich Albert Zorn – Huster/cc-by-sa-3.0

Dance notation is the symbolic representation of human dance movement and form, using methods such as graphic symbols and figures, path mapping, numerical systems, and letter and word notations. Several dance notation systems have been invented, many of which are designed to document specific types of dance while others have been developed with capturing the broader spectrum of human movement potential. A dance score is a recorded dance notation that describes a particular dance.   read more…

Theme Week Odesa

21 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  9 minutes

The Passage galleries © Alex Levitsky & Dmitry Shamatazhi/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Passage galleries © Alex Levitsky & Dmitry Shamatazhi/cc-by-sa-3.0

Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021, Odesa’s population was approximately 1,010,537. On 25 January 2023, its historic city centre was declared a World Heritage Site and added to the List of World Heritage in Danger by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in recognition of its multiculturality and 19th-century urban planning. The declaration was made in response to the bombing of Odesa during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has damaged or destroyed buildings across the city.   read more…

Cradle of Humankind

21 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  6 minutes

Maropeng Visitors Centre, Gauteng, South Africa © Olga Ernst/cc-by-sa-4.0

Maropeng Visitors Centre, Gauteng, South Africa © Olga Ernst/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Cradle of Humankind is a paleoanthropological site that is located about 50 km (31 mi) northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the Gauteng province. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999, the site is home to the largest known concentration of human ancestral remains anywhere in the world. The site currently occupies 47,000 hectares (120,000 acres) and contains a complex system of limestone caves. The registered name of the site in the list of World Heritage Sites is Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa.   read more…

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