Travel to Moscow, is an experience like no other. Since regaining it’s status as the capital of Russia in 1918, the city gradually rose to a whole new level. Moscow, one of the oldest and most beautiful cities of Russia, offers a countless number of possibilities for the art lover.
If the Garden of Eden ever existed, probably it was ancient Mesopotamia.
Being the cradle of mankind’s first civilizations, Situated between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, even further away from what we find in textbooks, this region located in what in modern days is Iraq and the Near East, was the home of people as old as the Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians.
Toledo follows the tradition of the Holy Week with such brilliance that its celebration is already a National Tourist Interest. Its devotion is expressed with art of great penitential severity and the solemn processions give the opportunity to visit the many convents there are in Toledo...
Within the turmoil going through China during 1050-256 BC, great changes happened by the deterioration of the Zhou Dynasty. These events stimulated the rise of diverse ideologies like Confucianism, Taoism and Ying Yang philosophies among others.
Art, as a distinctive expression of every culture, is a testimony of history, a mark which outlines the evolution, the road to a new cosmovision, a different society and its values. Intrigued by the Islamic world, I have searched its art in tradition, its legends and remnants of the Al Andalus kingdom. From Morocco, Syria, and the Middle East to Sicily, my explorations have allowed me to know and admire the Mudéjar art.
Rodrigo Díaz was born in Vivar, near Burgos. With his military talents, the Cid conquered lands occupied by the Moors to accumulate wealth and to integrate an autonomous principality.
The Oruro Carnival, which is held in Bolivia, was born from festivities back in the early Christian era. On May 18, 2001, the Carnival was proclaimed “Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible World Heritage” by UNESCO.
The Czech Republic (established on January 1st, 1993, after Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the independent Czech Republic and Slovakia), is located in central Europe. It is a country rich in history and tradition that surprises one by way of its works of art and architecture drawn from previous eras.