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...Mural paintings from the Hermitage of the Vera Cruz de Maderuelo (Room 51C) Finally — but only if you like reverse chronology — a small wonder....
...The restaurant runs the length of it, and plies big-city dishes (burrata and carpaccios, supergrain salads and truffle-parm fries) in a bistrot au bord de la mer setting. From £285, harbourhotels.co.uk...
...Another fascinating sight is the Laguna de Huacachina, about 40km inland outside Ica....
...Nine years ago, they were working as conservationists on Santa Cruz, the most populous island, and wanted to set up their own ecological venture....
...Both orchestra and chorus are from La Monnaie in Brussels, which has delayed putting on the opera because its nationalistic text might antagonise Flemish secessionists....
...JAR Paris Vol II , by Pierre Genet and Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR Vol II, RRP$800 In 2003, Rosenthal published the limited edition 10lb-plus JAR Paris....
...two contrasting styles: “La Furia”, the aggressive game brought to southern Spain by British engineers in the 19th century, versus “La Roja”, embodying the skill and precision brought to a fine art by recent...
...Many of the ideas in this book draw on the wisdom of the great urbanist Jane Jacobs, who knew that you need to walk a city’s streets to see its soul....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...The work here is fraught with intellectual interest: the politically charged “Juan de la Cruz”; the monumental contemporary history painting “Pacific Coast Highway”; the masterly portrait “The Jewish Rider...
...Juan Pantoja de la Cruz’s 1605 version of Charles is, in fact, Titian’s, right down to the Emperor’s amiable, crooked smile....
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