Cultural Travel/Tourism

Cultural experiences are among the key reasons many of us travel, and they are manifold - from performances to exhibitions to festivals - as well as explorations of culture in all its manifestitions, including art, architecture, cuisine, crafts, heritage, music, and traditions across a wide gamut.

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The eye-opening cultural experience of attending an Omani wedding

The female security guard discreetly slips me through a side door and gestures for me to sit at the table in the corner. The Arabic music is pulsating and the room is reverberating with the nervous energy of 400 women. Suddenly, the lights dim and everyone turns to watch. A bride, dressed in a Western-style long white wedding gown with matching trailing veil has a death grip on her bouquet of roses as she takes very slow measured steps down the center aisle towards the “Bride’s Love Seat.”…

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European Capitals of Culture 2025: Chemnitz, Gorizia, and Nova Gorica

Ralf Steinberger, Krzysztof Golik, Eleassar Annually for the last 40 years, the cultural poobahs of the European Union have designated one or more of the continent's cities (and as of 2022 it's been three rather than two), as Capitals of Culture, focusing on their own cultural offerings and allowing them to organize a series of wider cultural events (many with a strong pan-European dimension) - which bring in considerable additional revenue; foster urban renewal; and raise their international…

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Exploring Chinese and aboriginal culture in Taiwan

Stanislav Koslovskiy Officially the Republic of China, this island with a population of around 24 million – just a bit larger than the state of Maryland and just under half the size of Scotland – has been in the news lately both thanks to its controversial January 13 presidential elections and to its perennial potential (and especially in the context of other current crises in Ukraine and Gaza) as a world flashpoint due to mainland China´s obsession with eventually and forcibly annexing it.…

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A taste of cowboy and ranching culture in Guyana

Carsten ten BrinkThe 5,000-square-mile Rupununi Savannah in the southwest between the Rupunini River and the border with Brazil - was one of the most memorable parts of our trip to Guyana. Home to the Macushi, Patamona, Wai-Wai, and Wapishana peoples, its wonderful to explore via 4x4 and ATV, including wildlife spotting (such as capybaras and giant anteaters) and overnights at cattle ranches (complete with cowboys") which also welcome guests. read post

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Karen Fawcett April 11, 2010 at 5:00pm

Michelle: How lovely for you .. what a great trip. And I'm certain you'll find things to make people salivate about visiting Dublin.

This is not the right place to discuss this - but are we going end up tweeting our way to information - guess so. Have a good Sunday.
Michelle April 11, 2010 at 4:42pm

Karen: thanks for the tip - the trip is actually being sponsored by visitdublin (along with capital hotels and the merrion) but I'm looking for personal recommendations, the sort of stuff that you would gloat about doing to your friends after having been there.

I'm actually in the strange position of having stayed in Dublin for a month in the past and I've done many of the known cultural sights before so I'm looking for something really out of the ordinary!

Any ideas - you know where to tweet them: http://twitter.com/thetraveleditor
Karen Fawcett April 11, 2010 at 3:51pm

Michele: You might start by looking at this site.

http://www.visitdublin.com/events/dublin.aspx
it appears to have a lot of interesting things listed from soup to nuts.
Michelle April 11, 2010 at 12:07pm

Anyone know of any interesting cultural events happening in Dublin between 27th and 30th April?

If so, let me know about them by tweeting about them at http://twitter.com/thetraveleditor so I can pay them a visit on my up-coming TwitTrip!
Marco Pontuali March 1, 2010 at 12:09pm
Marco Pontuali March 1, 2010 at 12:09pm

"TWILIGHT TOUR": A taste of New Moon's in Italy
Karen Fawcett February 9, 2010 at 2:00pm

As far as I am concerned, culture is everywhere. It may not be the greatest concert or exhibition - it can be a festival! It's a question of doing a modicum of research and traveling with open eyes.
Viator Travel February 9, 2010 at 1:44pm

Cultural events must surely be part of everyday life, not just a show for tourists.
http://www.tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/dubrovnik-day-and-festivity-of
Karen Fawcett February 9, 2010 at 1:17pm

Rossitza Ohridska-Olson :

For cultural events taking place in France:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&am...

and French isn't needed. Google is!

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Portail de l'actualité culturelle en France. Théâtre, cinéma, danse, cirque, littérature, multimédia, sculpture, peinture, expositions, concerts, art…
David Paul Appell February 8, 2010 at 2:47pm

Istanbul absolutely blew me away years ago, and I'm really anxious to get back this year for the culture year.

In the meantime, last summer I was in both 2011 twin capitals, Turku, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia, and they will be treats, too -- very differently flavored, but treats indead.