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...Berlinde de Bruyckere’s City of Refuge III, textural sculptures of fallen angels, tragic yet redemptive, perfectly suits its setting, San Giorgio Maggiore’s chapel and monastery — a refuge of peace....
...Roman elegance is in proportion and standards. Living in a village such as Castel San Pietro has taught us that time travel is indeed possible....
...Over to my favourite rustic restaurant, El Llar de Viri in the village of San Román, for a big bowl of fabada asturiana, the long-simmered signature dish of beans and smoked sausage, and a bottle of local...
...This year, the Roman calendar is jam-packed with cultural happenings....
...Joseph De Rocher....
...The word “civilisation” appears for the first time in France in the 1750s, introduced by the Marquis de Mirabeau....
...from demolition and certainly one of the world’s great football spectacles on an almost Roman scale....
...Giovanni de’ Vecchi’s elaborate sketch “Christ in Glory” with six saints, for a Roman church, is more precisely orchestrated and was probably a presentation piece to a patron....
...In 1545, Grand Duke Cosimo de Medici bought ground for a garden of medicinal herbs from Dominicans whose San Marco convent still stands nearby....
...Guillaume opened his Atelier de Nîmes shop just before Covid hit....
...Casa Lana Viale Emilio Alemagna 6, 20121 Milan Opening times/entry fee: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–8pm; €25 (Triennale Milano entry ticket) Website; Directions This transplanted interior is a delight....
...Even Cosimo de’ Medici, the plutocrat and prince of Florence, feared God’s punishment for being who he was....
...Treasure trove: Tim Harford explains what the price of a 2,000-year-old Roman nail tells us about value....
...I opt for a 2019 Senda Garnacha from one of the most famous names in the Sierra de Gredos: Las Moradas de San Martín....
...Hello from San Pedro de Atacama in northern Chile, where I’m exploring the region’s lithium industry for the next in our series of Moral Money documentaries (following our last two on fusion power and the...
...Llop, San Pedro 9, Local 4, Barrio De Las Letras, Madrid; llopmadrid.com...
...Original Travel has a new 13-day road trip that includes the Picos de Europa National Park, Ribadeo, the beaches and historic old town of La Coruña and three nights in Santiago de Compostela....
...With his early career spent in the kitchens of L’Arpège in Paris and San Domenico in Emilia-Romagna, Café Carmellini is the theatrical culmination of exquisite French and Italian cuisine — think Dover sole...
...Bernie Lagrange, son of Belgian economist and hedge fund manager Pierre, cites Emmanuel Roman, CEO of global investment management firm PIMCO, as a client....
...“I’d started canvassing people” at dinner parties, he recalls over breakfast, seated under a Mario de’ Fiori still life of flowers. “‘Have you been to Florence?’ ‘Of course!’ ‘And Venice?’...
...Midjourney, a San Francisco start-up, has come as more of a revelation....
...In 1547, Catherine de’ Medici introduced it to France and was said to have almost died of indigestion after eating one too many....
...August 8-September 10, lucernefestival.ch Outside Lands, US This San Francisco festival celebrates 15 years at the Golden Gate Park this August....
...The works now complete, the de Gournay Belvoir project will go “on tour” by exhibiting at decorating fairs, starting in San Francisco this autumn....
...de Rola – the widow of the French-Polish painter Balthus, and known colloquially as Setsuko – lived at the Villa Medici in Rome, when Balthus was director of the Académie de France....
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