Parque de Monserrate, Sintra, Portugal
The park and palace of Monserrate My post this month falls into the “and elsewhere” category of my blog title, as I deserted France to lead a tour around Portuguese […]
The park and palace of Monserrate My post this month falls into the “and elsewhere” category of my blog title, as I deserted France to lead a tour around Portuguese […]
The Potager du Roi was built for King Louis XIV, the magnificent ‘Sun King’, to provide fruit and vegetables for his table and to feed the court at Versailles. The […]
The Chemin des Dames is a road that runs atop a ridge in the plain that stretches from Soissons to Reims. It was a bitterly contested part of the western […]
Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947) is an Italian artist and a member of the Arte Povera movement. His work is concerned with creating contact between people and nature. The exhibition of […]
The 1st of November is La Toussaint (All Saints), a bank holiday in France, and the day when French families visit the tombs of their friends and relatives. Tradition dictates […]