Notable amongst these local traditions was the Canzone Napoletana—the Neapolitan Song. Although there are nameless, documented songs from Naples from many centuries in the past, the term, canzone Napoletana now typically refers to a large body of comparatively recent, composed popular music—such songs as “‘O Sole Mio”, “Torna a Surriento”, and “Funiculi Funicula”. In the […]

Its proprietor was Robert Robert i Surís, a financier-cum-social-influencer who designed the property as his family home. An exhibition space right now, the Palau hosts temporary exhibits of video, work, and photography, and has a backyard and concert corridor. Officially, Frederic Marès was a sculptor, but his real vocation was hoarding. You would possibly like […]

Halfway between sculpture and structure, the Atomium was designed and built for the Brussels World’s Fair , for which it was the flagship constructing and emblem. Representing an iron unit cell magnified 165 billion occasions, the monument with its distinctive silhouette has, over time, grown to turn out to be the symbol of Brussels and […]