... good English, was an intelligent chap, very interested and knowledgeable about every subject, history, art, and culture.
I went to visit Haghartsin church, in a lush forest. I walked all the way from ...
... certainties. As leaving the country that had bred him, albeit not his real homeland, had not been an act of his own choice, history was just repeating itself. That had happened three years before ...
... a visit to an open-air museum on the history of architecture.
As I took a rest after many hours of uninterrupted walking my eyes tried to analyse the scene. A rationalist block painted a pale yellow ...
... in the middle of the Moscova river, more suited to a theme park than the elegant central districts of a capital city. Throughout its history the city planners have sought to merge the sacred and the profane, ...
... power houses, gasometers, the list was long. That architecture worked an uncanny effect on me: it talked of economic history, social implications, lifestyle, human suffering, disease, exploitation, wealth ...
... that is no more, but lives on in our collective memory as the horror of contemporary history. The former extermination camp is now the domain of free-willing visitors rather than a place of confinement, ...
Kłodzko was formerly called Glatz – and this is not just a learned detail, because this German name gives evidence to the region's history. The town, together with swathes of Silesia, was a dominion of ...
... a bestseller: history, power, wealth, beauty, incest, Nazism, and war. I learnt about its existence at the tourist office where a brochure recommended a visit and while I was in Swidnica I decided to give ...
... of stelae of different shapes and decorative patterns, it marks a stage in the country's history approximately 700 years ago when Christianity had not yet taken over pagan religions in the south. I had ...
... that feeds on Communist principles. And here I was at the place where crucial events took place, together with enthusiastic Chinese tourists brushing up on the official version of their history books ...
... lines, and flowery cavities. The traces of sedimentation could recount eons of geological history. I also relished the admiration of natural rarity.
The road back to town, which crossed tunnels of intertwined ...
... at, where, probably on account of being the first foreigner putting up in the history of the establishment, I was treated in a particularly friendly way by the boss and his charming employee. Then I had ...
... immediately outside. I’m not used to these places, and walked to the centre to visit another interesting fort. The caretaker, as knowledgeable about history and dates as they usually are, explained the ...
... plenty of motley boats and black human bodies busying themselves in the water or mending the nets.
The interest of this fortress stems not just from its beauty, but from the tremendous history that marked ...
... read word for word: “The people of all nationalities lived in harmony, learned from each other and founded the Chinese nation’s long history and magnificent culture with the people all over the motherland ...
... the crumbling houses in the old town, where the new buildings announce its imminent transformation into another anonymous Chinese town. Centuries of history will be replaced by modern buildings. The administrators’ ...
... is not Chinese at all, being the head of the autonomous Tagik prefecture hosting the country’s approximately 50,000 people of this ethnicity.
Reportedly, the official version of history found in schoolbooks ...
... lacks a basic sense of taste and proportion.
In any case, the Chinese town lacks a sense of history altogether. If it is anywhere to be found, it is relegated to tourist attractions. They take pride ...
... component of this multifaceted culture at Buchkovo monastery. A leitmotif that has accompanied two millennia of Bulgarian history, the orthodox Church looks as unchanged as the wooded landscape I had to ...