South Mountain Park Hiking Trails Map
Viana, perched in a commanding position overlooking the city of Logrono, appeared two hours before I reached it. I had not stayed there before but it imparts lingering memories. …
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Santa Monica Mountains Hiking Map
As far as romantic relationships go, forget them My history of getting involved with women is a disaster zone. It doesn’t bother me; I accept it because, again, relationships …
BRUCKNER MUSEUM
In Bruckner’s time and for several centuries before, the monastery of St Florian, near Linz in Upper Austria, huge, grand and powerful, dominated the region. It also dominated Bruckner’s …
BRITTEN MUSEUM
Both Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears made it clear in their wills that they did not want the Red House, their Aldeburgh home from 1957, to become a museum: …
Johannes Brahms Museums
BRAHMS MUSEUM A whistle-stop tour is very much in the spirit of Johannes Brahms’s life. He was a great traveller, mainly in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, but also to …
BOITO MUSEUM
The Parma conservatory, one of the premier institutions of its kind in Italy, is called the Conservatorio di Musica ‘Arrigo Boito’, and it is there that the eponymous composer …
BELLINI MUSEUM
The son and grandson of musicians, Vincenzo Bellini was born in 1801 in Catania, on the island of Sicily, in the shadow of Etna. The three-room flat in which …
BEETHOVEN MUSEUMS
No composer is better served by museums than Beethoven. That is not surprising: almost universally seen as the greatest of the great during most of the 19th century and …