Cirque du Soleil shows are imbued in the magic of lighting, interplay of costumes, and spectacular acrobatics, all tied into a storyline filled with intrigue and charisma. Cirque's JOYA, performed on continuous engagement in Mexico's Mayan Riviera,
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A most fortunate few cities have the luxury of being identified with an internationally famous artist who inevitably ends up being an ambassador of sorts for his or her home town. Colombia‘s second largest city (and very up and coming destination)
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Corporate art collections have been with us for generations (indeed, in some sense for centuries), but in recent years, an increasing number of hotels – both indies and entire chains – have been focusing on art as both a guest perk and a point of pr
Like migratory birds, more than 70 eminent authors and thinkers from across the globe just gathered in London this past May 20-21 for what has become an annual fixture, the Jaipur Literature Festival. The venue was different this year, because its
Hey, can you by any chance name a Danish city outside of Copenhagen? Most likely not. Your loss, really, because Denmark's second largest, for example, is a truly charming bit of business called Aarhus, (pop. 265,000, larger metro area 330,000), on
It was a rainy autumn day in Tokyo, as my companions and I shuffled out of the Toei Chikatetsu metro line at Asakusa Station. Emerging onto the street level, we quickly opened and raised our large, red, paper umbrellas, on loan from our escorts, and
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It took three years of extraordinary building works to reopen to the public in September the historic “Library of the Popes”. 1,600,000 printed volumes, 80,000 manuscripts and 100,000 archival units, 8,400 incunabula, about 300,000 c
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Summer holidays may be a receding memory, but in Spain–and nowhere more than Iberia Airlines’ hometown Madrid–being back in the “real world” of work and bills to pay is still plenty sweet. It’s the season when big museums shows, cultural events and t
Three images are especially iconic when it comes to Turkey: the Blue Mosque of Istanbul, the library at Ephesus, and the whirling dervishes of Konya. But despite all the time I’ve spent in this country, until I visited the dervishes’ annual festival
Entering service as a train station in 1900, Paris’ handsome Beaux-Arts Gare d’Orsay was out of commission by the 1970s. But since 1986 it's been leading a very distinguished second life indeed as one of Europe’s most beloved museums. The Musée d’O
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