Bernard Allum
The Land of the Rising Sun is home to an ancient culture with a sometimes tumultuous history, and through these many centuries, inevitably some of that history has...
31/10/2019
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cultural tourism
Remanz
In the Western Hemisphere, the religions brought over by African slaves have been part of the scene for centuries in Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and most...
07/10/2019
Edgar Jiménez
One of the many attractive destinations in Colombia that has been attracting increasing attention among both holidaymakers and expatriates seeking a fantastic home is Medellín (sometimes dubbed Medallo)...
08/08/2019
pressdigital
Few great world cities can be said to be as ardently and inextricably tied to music as Austria's capital. In this case, of course, classical, echoeing with the footsteps...
04/04/2019
Oguz Dikbakan
In the West these days, we rarely if ever spare a thought for North Africa's largest and second-most populous country, but as this blog has reported several times, Algeria is an...
09/07/2018
photos | Sarah Brown
Though most famous for Carnival, golden beaches, and world-famous landmarks, the real heart of Rio de Janeiro, for those in the know, lies in its downtown, most notably...
11/06/2018
Jordi Santacana Figuerola
Spain has had its share of sculptors among its so many distinguished artists over the centuries. But even the most famous, like Eduardo Chillida and Juli González, are pikers...
20/02/2018
Kalim Saliba
For those interested in USA history, "Beantown" is a bonanza, with its many sites and neighbourhoods rich in colonial, revolutionary, and republican history over its 400 years of...
16/05/2017
photo | Hung Chung Chih
When I first witnessed a performance of Peking opera (the best-known form of Chinese opera, with Peking by the way being the traditional English spelling...
30/03/2017
Literally, pantsula translates from Zulu as "to walk like a duck". It's an energetic, syncopated urban dance that originated in Johannesburg townships during a traumatic period of apartheid in the 1950s,...
07/03/2017
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