City

Turin – isn’t a gloomy industrial city, but an aristocratical place with a thing coat of mysticism....

Let's explore the habits of British capital residents and decide what is worth adding to our armory.

No one knows if inhabitants of El Qurna do really plunder tombs, but the night the journalist of Vsemirny Sledopyt spent there indeed turned out unusual.

In Malaga the future father of cubism has taken a brush for the first time. Has the modern city preserved the colors and shades that became Picasso's palette?

The city of Orleans conceals many mysteries. Why dauphin Charles so accomplished in battles believed Janna, a simple peasant from Orleans, entrusted army and his destiny to her? Why does it happen that at this or that moment history puts forward this or that person on a proscenium? And by what logic do they leave it?..

To use guide services and guidebook information is a stock way and secure in any sense. But each city possesses its own force and the more ancient is its history the stronger is its spell. Suppose we confide in it, plunging in contemplative-meditative state of mind. But don’t forget to read out the signs left for us...

If it were not for the fortress, Savonlinna would be hardly known in the world. Formerly it protected the city, and today it provides its activity making money on culture. In summer life here is in full swing, but when visitors leave, slow cozy provincial life reigns around.

When you find yourself in a city with ancient history, you try to imagine how this place looked like one hundred, five hundred, one thousand years ago, try to search any nooks where wind of changes has not yet blown away aromas of olden time. And we strive to find the atmosphere of the past centuries

Collection of sculptures in the Summer Garden and one of the most famous antique masterpieces, the statue of Venus Tavricheskaya in the Hermitage exposure, appeared in St.Petersburg owing to virtuosic spy born in Croatia, who served to Peter I. Who was this person and what made him leave his native land and resign to the Russian tsar?

Every secret becomes obvious sooner or later, however carefully it has been hidden. One more historical puzzle tormenting minds of art researchers throughout several centuries is just about to be solved. And it will take place in Florence.

London always appears as a natural-born star - it absolutely doesn’t care, if the public going to like it or not. In any weather the city keeps elegant, brilliant dispassionateness. Probably due to this very reason celebrities made of flesh and blood, arrive here by private jets, buy here estates and open restaurants. The city teaches them how to be a star.

Haifa — is astonishment, cultural shock. And not only because this is, perhaps, the most untypical Israeli city, but because I would never expected to see what I have seen there.

Up to XVI century Madrid remained an obscure country village — just at the time when Oxford already flourished in England, and printing was already invented in Germany. But suddenly population of the city quickly increased, many grandees thronged in Madrid… May be golden mine was found there?!