Category: Travel

STOLZ MUSEUM Graz, capital of Styria, honours Robert Stolz (1880-1975) above all other composers. He was still living when a bust was erected in the Stadtpark, in 1972, along the …

PERGOLESI MUSEUM His early death and the prodigious reputation of just two of his works – the intermezzo La serva padrona and the Stabat mater, composed on his deathbed – …

ERASMUS BRIDGE MAP To meet multiple demands, the Erasmus combines three bridgescable-stayed, viaduct, and basculein one. The Erasmus Bridge, Ben van Berkel’s glorious arching portal over the Maas River, operates …

SAINT-SAENS MUSEUM Camille Saint-Saens was a Parisian. He was born in the Latin Quarter, at 3 Rue du Jardinet, on 9 October 1835. But his family came from the Dieppe …

EADS BRIDGE MAP Steamboats traveling up and down the mighty Mississippi had brought St. Louis great prosperity. By 1860, however, the city was losing business to Chicago, which was served …

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV MUSEUM To a traveller unused to Russia, a tour of Rimsky-Korsakov sites – his birthplace in Tikhvin, his St Petersburg apartment and grave, and his summer homes near Lake …

Earlier in the year, in June, the Lake District in Cumbria was named a UNESCO World Heritage site, which was not a surprise at all, considering the district’s unique attractions, …

Introduction Mauritius is truly a rainbow island – a mix of eastern and western cultures living together in a tropical, colorful and different island where they play golf in Mauritius. …

STRAVINSKY MUSEUM Igor Stravinsky spent several years in Switzerland, many in Paris, and most of all in the United States, where he died in 1971. And he is buried in …

REGER MUSEUM It is somehow symbolic that Max Reger was born in the Fichtelgebirge, strictly a part of Bavaria but in many ways distinct from it in its geography, its …