FORTH BRIDGE MAP
FORTH BRIDGE MAP LONGEST STEEL CANTILEVER IN THE WORLD 1890-1917 Crossing Firth of Forth, Queensferry, Scotland Designers/Engineers Benjamin Baker, John Fowler Completed 1890 Span 1,710 feet (521 meters) Material …
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VIDU MUSEUM
VIDU MUSEUM The town of Lugoj in western Romania, about 60 km east of Timisoara, is the country’s main provincial centre of choral music. It possesses a Casa Personalitatilor, …
Top Jungle Lodges and Heritage Hotels For Indian National Parks
There’s nothing better than amplifying a wildlife trip with more than scenes and sounds of the jungle. If you’re visiting one of the wildlife destinations of India, it is …
PONCHIELLI MUSEUM
PONCHIELLI MUSEUM The composer who was long regarded as Verdi’s probable successor, Amilcare Ponchielli, came from the village of Paderno Fasolaro, some 17 km northwest of Cremona, where he …
GARDEN BRIDGE MAPS MAP
GARDEN BRIDGE MAPS MAP Most vehicular bridges tend to go unnoticed, made invisible by routine commuting, but footbridges in gardens and parks are not only noticed but celebrated. In …
SARASATE MUSEUM
SARASATE MUSEUM It is of course as a violinist that Pablo Sarasate is chiefly remembered. But he composed too, not inconsiderably, and, not surprisingly, chiefly for his own instrument, …
REVUTS’KY MUSEUM
REVUTS’KY MUSEUM Levko Mykolayevych Revuts’ky was a central figure in Ukrainian music in the generation following Lysenko. Born in Irzhavets’ in 1889, he went to study in the capital …
STETSENKO MUSEUM
STETSENKO MUSEUM Choral music is the least likely of genres to carry a composer’s reputation beyond his own country’s boundaries, so it is not surprising that Kyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko …