Pasay City Things To Do |  | Visit the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) by nixca316
CCP was one of the great projects of the former First Lady, Imelda Romualdez Marcos. See, she's not all that bad. She was notorious with her affair with George Hamilton (yeah, yeah, hearsay, I know) and thousands of shoes (plus other signature items). Yet, she was a lover of the arts. CCP was three to four years in the making. On 1966 Executive Order No. 30 of then President Ferdinand E. Marcos, CCP was was built. Three years later (Sept. 8,... [read more] | Paris Things To Do |  | Vincent Van Gogh at Orsay. by breughel
Van Gogh is well represented by 15 works in room 35 at the upper level of Orsay. I prefer these works to most of those I saw recently at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (ref. my Amsterdam tip). The quality of all the 15 works of room 35 is excellent with highlights such as "Les roulottes, campement de bohémiens aux environs d'Arles" (photo 1), "L'église d'Auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet" (photo 2), "Fritillaires couronne impériale dans un vase... [read more] | Rome Things To Do |  | PALAZZO ALTEMPS - Museo Nationale Romano. by breughel
In this Palazzo from Cardinal Altemps, from the late Renaissance, is on display an important collection of antique sculptures belonging to the "Museo Nationale Romano". The Museo Nationale Romano Altemps is located about 100 m north of the Piazza Navona. The most famous part of the collection was given by the family Boncompagni Ludovisi. The sculptures belong to the Hellenistic, Roman republican and imperial periods as well as from the baroque... [read more] |
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