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Milan Fashion Week: John Varvatos Spring / Summer 2012 Fashion Show

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Saturday 06:30 AM, my iPhone emits the persistent “Marimba” sound. I wonder for a few seconds why I have to experience this torture, only to realize soon after that in less then an hour my train to Milan will be leaving. At the railway station...

Cathedral Basilica of St Denis in Paris

The Cathedral Basilica of St Denis (Cathédrale royale de Saint-Denis, or simply Basilique Saint-Denis, previously the Abbaye de Saint-Denis) is a large abbey church in the commune of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris. The abbey church was created a cathedral in 1966 and…

The Last supper and Santa Maria delle Grazie Milan

You will find this great work of art that Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned to paint by Ludovico il Moro, from 1496 to 1498, in the refectory of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, outside the church a door, on your right, will…

Notre Dame de Paris

Notre Dame de Paris (Our Lady of Paris), also known as Notre Dame Cathedral, is a Gothic, Roman Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered one…

The St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral in Brussels, Belgium

The St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral is located at the Treurenberg hill in Brussels, Belgium. In French, it is called Cathédrale Saints-Michel-et-Gudule and in Dutch Sint-Michiels- en Sint-Goedelekathedraal, usually shortened to “Sint-Goedele”. In 1047, Lambert II, Count of Leuven founded a chapter in this…