Denmark plans to change Copenhagen’s hippie enclave
Denmark’s government has proposed a plan to regularize housing in a decades-old hippie enclave in the centre of Copenhagen. The story is not new, the controversy dates back some years, however there were some new developments.
The counterculture oasis, home to aging hippies, artists, drug addicts and stray dogs, offers a sharp contrast to the rest of Copenhagen, and [...]
The festival of fire in Valencia, Spain
Holidaymakers heading to Spain next Spring should check out the popular Las Fallas Festival in Valencia.
Running in March, between the 15th and 19th, this massive tribute to Saint Joseph, patron Saint of the carpenters’ guild, where, it is said, the tradition arose from, results in millions of people flocking to the city to glimpse the famous [...]
The Archeological Museum in Zagreb
The Archeological Museum in Zagreb was founded in 1846. It is located in the historical Vranyczany-Hafner Palace.
Museum’s collections and departments > The ancient and valuable items held by the Museum are systematically organized into several collections. The Prehistoric, Classical Greek and Roman, and Mediaeval Collections follow the usual chronological system of all European Museum departments. [...]
All you need to know about Bordeaux wines
The CIVB [Conseil Interprofessionel du Vin de Bordeaux] has become one of the first wine growing regions to develop a website for education and promotion, launching its innovative website.
The design and features of bordeaux.com is aimed at generating a high level of international interest within the wine industry and among consumers. The multi-lingual element promotes the [...]
The Russian Culture and the Arts
Culture > Libraries and Museums
Russia has over 50,000 state public Libraries [39,000 of these rural] in total possession of over a billion books, and the stock is steadily growing. Every general-educational school and the majority of offices and large factories have libraries of their own.
Close to 1,500 Museums cover practically all fields, knowledge, historical, ethnographic, memorial, [...]
Florence’s Archaeological Museum
Florence’s Archaeological Museum showcases ancient artefacts.
A rare collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan finds are on public display, following renovation work at Florence’s National Archaeological Museum. Over 500 precious artefacts, previously kept in storage, are now housed on the second floor of the Museum, located through 17 rooms.
The Archaeological Museum is one of Florence’s hidden gems, [...]
Germany’s Museum of Modern Literature
Friedrich Nietzsche’s death mask and Franz Kafka’s manuscript of “The Trial” are among more than 1,300 exhibits featured at the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, in the native town of German writer Friedrich Schiller in southwest Germany.
The Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach displays contemporary and 20th century literature in an exhibition area of 1,000 [...]
Enjoy the summer solstice in Stockholm
The Solstice is still a few days away, but Midsummer madness of Abba-esque proportions has taken hold of the Swedes.
It is quite a shock, coming from people who have brought us such sensible things as Volvo cars, Ikea, Skype computer conversations and paternity leave.
For an outsider, the best way to get a snapshot of the [...]
Cabaret Voltaire is Zurich’s shop of the new
Zurich’s legendary Dada Venue, Cabaret Voltaire, now includes a shop selling “Fair Trade” T-shirts.
For your next trip to Zurich consider a visit to the Cabaret Voltaire, mythical birth-place of Dada, where artists with pointy hats and thunderous nursery rhymes changed the course of art history. The venue is now an art space dedicated to a [...]
In Stockholm visit the ABBA Museum
Legendary Swedish mega-group ABBA are being honoured in the world’s first Museum devoted to the Scandinavian pop stars in Stockholm.
ABBA the Museum is a modern Museum filled with ABBA’s music, original clothes, history, images, instruments and much more that captures the group’s heyday in the 70s and 80s according to the Museum organisers. It is also an interactive experience where [...]
