Category: architecture
The Incomparable Guggenheim Bilbao
While visiting Donostia-San Sebastián, we took a day-trip to see the incomparable Guggenheim museum in nearby Bilbao. The express bus route between the two cities is well-run, frequent and comfortable. Much of what we have written below came from the official web site. A model of the building in the museum When the Guggenheim Museum
Exploring Libelle mit H&B, Buchantiquariat, Basel
Continuing with our posts on the bookstores we come across …, Libelle mit H&B is a high-end, well-curated second hand bookstore (antique bookseller) in the old town of Basel, Switzerland. Click here to see their website in English. It has a perfect location – Alstadt, a block from the city’s main thoroughfare – and situated at
Foro Italico, Roma, Italy
Foro Italico, formerly Foro Mussolini, is a Fascist-era sports complex in Rome, Italy. I(Chris) saw this as a part of a tour of modern Italian architecture. The forum was built between 1928 and 1938 as the Foro Mussolini (literally Mussolini’s Forum) under the design of Enrico Del Debbio and, later, Luigi Moretti (according to Wikipedia). At
Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow
Since I had limited time in Moscow, I went to one museum – the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val (Третьяковская галерея на Крымском Валу) – a branch of the State Tretyakov Gallery. Entrance to Park Kultury (Gorky Park) The main gallery State Tretyakov Gallery is a huge complex, very popular, and shows Russian art from the 11th to the