Fire and Food at Krishna’s Mathura Festival
Every year thousands of followers of the Hindu god Krishna make a pilgrimage to the town of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh to celebrate his birth nearly 3,500 years ago…
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Culture
Lord Leighton: Artist and Orientalist
Leighton House in Holland Park , London , was the home of Frederic Leighton, a leading Victorian artist , orientalist and collector.
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Kretek and Kudus
The Mesjid Al-Aqsa is the city’s most important mosque, founded in 1549. Try to be in Kudus on a Friday when the area is teeming with families on their way to pray. Religious and political statues, pictures and knick knacks are sold just outside the mosque.
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Barcelona’s Modernist Heritage
Architecture has had a very special importance among all the arts in Catalonia. It’s often been the most appropriate medium through which to express national identity. Periods when architecture flourished have paralleled eras of increased Catalan freedom of action and self expression, greater wealth.
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The Grid Plan – A Barcelona city invention
Most cities in Europe have a Gothic quarter, that’s how most cities where built in medieval times. What’s unique and specific to Barcelona is the ‘Ensanche’, the way the city expanded in the 19th century.
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