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PROJECT PARIS – 48 hours in Paris

Details are lost of first visits to Paris since there is so much to be overwhelmed by the old world elegance of history all around the streets of Paris. A three-day visit hardly gives enough time to dig deep into the city of Paris, so my focus will remain on two or more subjects with […]

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Venice Venezia Venexia

Venice and its lagoon are a UNESCO World Heritage site used to be an independent republic and remain one of Italy‘s most important cities. This sanctuary on a lagoon is virtually the same as it was six hundred years ago. Venice, the world’s only pedestrian city, is easily walkable, and the absence of cars makes […]

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Winchester • England

A historic cathedral city and former capital city of England and home of the world-famous Arthur’s Round Table. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. Winchester is an attractive and peaceful cathedral city deep in the southern English countryside, located conveniently close to both London and Southampton. Winchester’s major landmark is Winchester […]

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Seville • Spain

Seville is more than 2,000 years old and has a distinct personality, a large and well-preserved historical centre with strong medieval, renaissance and baroque heritage and heavy influences from Arabic culture, which can be seen in the most famous monuments and places. I have a love affair with Seville, it is just one of those […]

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Travels in Firenze

Travels in Firenze (Florence) Italy 2010. One of several videos I have of Florence, each time seeing it in a different way, but it still inspires, the classics and richness of art history here is remarkable. A renaissance town in every way with little alleys, cathedrals, squares, galleries. The Gates of Paradise is well worth […]

Florence 2009

Rich in art and architecture, a centre of medieval European trade and finance, Florence is the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and once the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Florence is so rich in art that some first-time visitors experience the Florence Syndrome, a phenomenon observed and described with more than 100 cases among tourists […]

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Siena (Sienna) • Italy

A picturesque city medieval city in the region of Tuscany, Siena is located in the north of Italy south of Florence, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Siena was a proud, wealthy, and warlike independent state during the Middle Ages, until its defeat by Florence. It was a poor little city for a few hundred […]

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Venice • Italy

Considered by many to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world, it stretches across 118 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. This is one of those places everyone must have seen in pictures or movies, Venice is world known and famous for its canals, […]

Vatican City State

Established in 1929, Vatican City State lies in the heart of Rome on a low hill on the west bank of the River Tiber, it is the world’s smallest independent state and headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope exercises sovereignty and has absolute legislative, executive, and judicial powers. Walled with six gates, its […]