Paris and its builders have always liked to experiment with the new, modern and controversial – from Baron Haussmann to Eiffel and Le Corbusier – and the trend continued to more recent days. Time has proved the critics of the time wrong and many of the ambitious projects became iconic symbols of this colourful and [...]
The Wine Museum of Macau, is a space of cultural, recreational and cultural characteristics, where the visitor has a date with the History of the Wine and the Vineyard and the wine production and with a complete exhibition of vintage and new wines. Throughout the space divided in three big areas – Historical information, Cellar/Museum, [...]
Photography has recently played a prominent part in the exhibition programme of the Cartier Foundation. Along with details of how to visit the gallery and a timetable of its activities there is also an online gallery with projects made specifically for the website. These can be, like the site itself, difficult to navigate but do [...]
May 5, 1821 Napoleon Ier dies out in the island of Sainte-Hélène where he had been exiled to since 1815. He is buried in the shade of some weeping willows. Its mortal remains remains there until October 15, 1840. It is in 1840 that was decided by king Louis-Philippe the transfer the remains of the [...]
Right in the middle of the fashionable Marais district, in between the Pompidou Center and the Place des Vosges, the Picasso museum is entirely devoted to the great spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881/1973). Housed in the Hôtel Salé, a 1656 superb city mansion, it was opened in 1985 with 203 paintings and 156 pieces of sculpture coming [...]
It is all, every last bit of it, all reinforced concrete and granite and zillions of square metres of every kind and colour of glass that you can think of. It is under construction forever. It has its own ring road. Train station. Now it has Metro too, added to the RER that is even [...]
One of the world’s most prestigious academic libraries, the Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne chose Millennium as a replacement for its aging library automation system. “The adaptable and flexible structure of Millennium, provided by APIs and Java clients, means that we will be able to continue to follow our traditional and well-developed working practices, ensuring that [...]
Opéra Bastille is a modern opera house in Paris, France. The architect was Carlos Ott. The building was inaugurated on July 13, 1989, on the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. However, it did not see its first performance until March 17,1990, with Berlioz’s “Les Troyens”. The building is located at Place de la Bastille, in the 12th arrondissement. It seats 2,716 and [...]
The cuisine is a passion and like all passions, has to be cultivated states Joël Garault. A cuisine which pays tribute to the season’s products to offer the maximum flavor at the best time. «I would say that cuisine must have character, be nice to the eye and finally, respect the vatious components which make [...]
Chateau Vaux le Vicomte is located about 50km south east of Paris and is reachable by train from Paris in a couple of hours. The castle is privately owned and is maintained rather well for visits. While this castle is small compared to Versailles it is still an amazing visit and specifically a great historical [...]
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