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Проехаться по Швейцарской Ривьере, вдоль Женевского озера из Монтре в Лозанну, а потом в Женеву – маршрут вальяжный и очень русский...

«Это озеро прекрасно, как исток творения», – писал о Гарде Дэвид Лоуренс, и был далеко не единственным, кто пел дифирамбы здешним водам...

In Ahmedabad there are almost no tourists. Here one can feel as if being in XV century, the time when the city was founded, or in 1970 during golden epoch of the newest resettlement of peoples when the first Europeans have just rushed to Hindustan. A person with white skin is still perceived here as a newcomer from another planet.

The name of this city was determined by voting, land plots for construction were distributed by lottery. Tel Aviv - is a surprising city with unusual history …

Verona and Mantua. These cities are connected not only by motorway А22, but also by Shakespearian story....

In comparison to other domestic and lovely cities of Denmark Copenhagen looks somewhat gloomy, but royally majestic. The centuries-old smell of herring has disappeared, and now it smells history, fairy tales and the sea...

Everybody knows the city of Saloniki - northern capital of Greece. But it's doubtful that many know the story of a woman whose name was given to the city...

Sometimes life during the epoch of changes aggravates feelings of an artist in such a way that both old, passing and new, coming for a change reality appears equally intolerable...

D'Annunzio was a hyperbole, alive art-object. He generated aesthetics of the Italian fascism, formed his own mini-state and composed the constitution in verses for it. He was a pirate for a living and distributed cocaine to citizens. He wrote verses, prose and plays. He had hundreds of lovers. If we mark Italian cities, somehow related to him, there will be no empty place on the map. In Italy he is called Vate (Prophet) or Il Poeta - the Poet with the capital letter. Before that only Dante received such an honour .

«Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again.». This famous line opens "Rebecca" - one of the best books of XX century, the novel by Daphne du Maurier...

Music by Verdi is as natural as breathing, as heart beating, as life. After being performed on famous «La Scala» stage, Verdi's music poured into spacious streets of Milan and acquired thousands voices...

During centuries the sun singes pavements of Toledo, and hearts of its inhabitants are singed by passion. The trace from such burn remains for ever...

Naples was a city - talisman for them. Here they found success, glory and love that turned affair between Lady Hamilton and Admiral Nelson into beautiful legend, many times glorified by writers and film directors …

Fan was the beginning. She dropped her fan, confused by invitation to dance. He returned the bagatelle promising a new meeting...

When kings marry to beloved, country’s morals soften. May be this is the reason why society is so harmonious in Norway where it already happened twice? Though all can be and on the contrary. The Norwegian crown princes follow the dictates of their hearts, feeling people support. The first in our collection of love stories - representatives of the Norwegian royal house, who during already half a century perform an old fairy tale about Cinderella for their citizens …

Flaubert liked and hated Rouen. That is why the plot of his main novel "Madam Bovary" is developing in this very city. Up to this day it was considered that his ideal Elisa Schlesinger and lover Louise Colet inspired Gustave for describing love scenes. However Flaubert's correspondence with Gertrude Tennant was found last summer ...

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?!