KISSING GATES Like hikers, these come in all shapes and sizes – with one exception. They do not cater for the obese (they’re never big enough). A hinged gate …
Costa Rica is a dream vacation destination for its tropical rainforests surrounded by two beautiful coastlines. Costa Rica is home to dozens of different beaches, which are beautiful and …
There’s nothing quite like getting a break from your daily routine and hectic lifestyle. Planning a getaway can help you take a step back and enjoy life to its …
PALLADIAN BRIDGE MAP Crossing Octagon Lake, Buckinghamshire, England Designer/Engineer Unknown Completed c. 1755 Length 92 feet (28 meters) Material Stone Type Arch A Renaissance design was used to encourage …
SKRYABIN MUSEUM Aleksandr Skryabin was a native Muscovite, and although he travelled widely as a concert pianist and lived abroad for many years – in Italy, France, Switzerland and …
THE BRIDGE MAPS OF WAR Bridges play key tactical roles in warfare, where moving military forces and supplies, or blocking enemy conduits of the same, is critical. Military bridges …
ORFF MUSEUM Carl Orff, known to millions around the world for Carmina Burana (1937) and music education for the masses, was a Munchner. He was born in 1895 into …
ZAJC MUSEUM The most important of Croatian Romantic composers, Ivan Zajc was enormously prolific: his opus numbers, going up to 1202, make even Czerny seem a slouch. He was …
PORUMBESCU MUSEUM Although still often referred to by its former name, Stupca, the little village lying among woods 26 km south-west of Suceava is officially called Ciprian Porumbescu after …
Tchaikovsky Cultural Centre TCHAIKOVSKY MUSEUM The way of the pilgrim to the Tchaikovsky shrines is not an easy one. Allowance must be made for the weather, the paucity of …