From the 3rd of June until the 9th of August (2008) the Holland Park Theatre (Holland Park Theatre, W8 6LU) hosts the Opera Holland Park event. This remarkable opera company, that has defied expectation and budgets to produce productions of the very highest standard, proposes Italian operas such like 'Il Trovatore', 'Tosca', [...]
The first section when film-makers were expected to send their works ended in December and the Staff is now undergoing all preparations to be ready by April for this 2008 Film Festival. The organization estimates that for this festival there will be around 200 films competing for different sections. Here the list:
International Competition section, reserved [...]
For those of you who don't know what to expect from it, be ready for the unexpected. Hopefully you will be enchanted by a foggy day, where people with long cloaks and masks mysteriously appear and disappear on the ancient Venetian alleys (calli), or maybe you will be lucky enough to experience Venice under a [...]
Overlooking the Arno, there is a traditional Tuscan trattoria called the Antico Ristoro di Cambi, run by the Cambi family that will welcome you with a warm ambience. The tuscan vegetable soup (ribollita) and the fiorentina T-bone steak are amazing. (Close on Sunday, Via S. Onofrio 1r; ph: +39 055 217134; av. prices 25Ђ; wine [...]
The central areas around the Palace Museum (Forbidden City) and city gates as well as the lakes - ZhongNanHai, BeiHai and HouHai - have been designated as protected landmark districts that retain the features of Old Beijing. The Forbidden City at the centre is surrounded in concentric circles by the Inner City and Outer City.
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Steer them together, and you'll see how Lisbon's not just made of bricks. In terms of food, well Lisbon has nothing to envy to some other Mediterranean Capitals.
The gastronomic part of your trip to Lisbon should start right in the morning, taking a good Portuguese pequeno almoзo (breakfast) made of galгo (hot milk with coffee, [...]
More precisely it takes place in Obuda Island, a little island on the Danube river, in the heart of City. In fact Sziget means Island. Started as a Student Festival in 1993, in a few years the Sziget Festival of Budapest has turned to be a very popular international event! To be more [...]
These can range in price, and some tea houses are really tourist traps whose main goal is to milk you of your money, so be careful. You can get a free tea demonstration at most Tenrenfu tea houses which are located throughout the city and at some malls. In Beijing, that is now leading the [...]
One of its points of interest is the MACBA, i.e. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Plaзa del Angels 1, macba.es , open Monday to Wednesday and Friday 11am to 7.30pm, Saturday 10am to 8pm, and Sunday 10 am to 3 pm, ticket 4Ђ, Metro 1 Red or 2 Violet, Universitat station) constructed by Richard Meier. [...]