AN ENTIRE WEEKEND CELBRATING A NATION’S HERITAGE
Every year in September, most European countries devote an entire weekend to the celebration and exploration of their cultural heritage through the European Heritage Days program. This year in France it was held on 19th – 20th of the month cele…
CELEBRATING CULTURE AT AN ALL NIGHT FESTIVAL
The idea of celebrating culture with an annual all-night event that brings together all ages and tastes, started back in 1982 and has since become a world-wide phenomenon. In France, the Fête de la Musique is held on 21 June every year, and La…
THE REMARKABLE PARIS PAGODAS – Part 1
Categories: Paris City – Attractions, Provence
Paris has three remarkable and unusual pagodas. Curiously, only one of them was built as a shrine. Of the other two, one is bold and conspicuous, while the other is discreet and hidden within a dense bamboo and ginko garden. What the three ha…
MORE GREAT DESTINATIONS IN PROVENCE!
Categories: Provence, South of France
The very name ‘Provence’ conjures up images of brilliant blue skies, ancient golden stone villages with terracotta tiled roofs, and dazzling colours thrown into sharp relief as depicted in a Van Gogh painting. It’s a land of languid, hot sunny…
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