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European Heritage Days · Venice
What Holds Venice Up
Six bridges, and the people who keep them standing. A free heritage walk with the Associazione Beni Culturali Online APS — including two 1933 bridges on the Rio Novo that no guidebook mentions.
Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September, 10.30 am · Campo San Simon Piccolo, Venice · 15 places each morning · free, booking required · the walk is in Italian
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View all →Padiglione Italia, Giardini della Biennale — the 1932 Torres Facade
Liberty Style and Art Nouveau Textiles — Artisanal Window at Campo Santo Stefano
Hôtel van Eetvelde, Brussels – Virtual Tour 360°
Hôtel Winssinger, Brussels
Barcelona — Gaudí and the Catalan Modernisme – Virtual Tour 360°
The Abandoned Liberty Villa of Viale Principe Amedeo, Rimini – Virtual Tour 360°
Palazzo del Cinema del Lido di Venezia – Virtual Tour 360°
Palazzo del Casinò del Lido di Venezia – Virtual Tour 360°
The Liberty Gate of Viale Porto Palos — Viserbella di Rimini – Virtual Tour 360°
Santuario de Santa María Magdalena, Novelda
Casa Museu Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Canet de Mar
Hotel Suís, Sabadell
Sinagoga Or Zaruah (Casa de Yamín Benarroch), Melilla
Palazzo dell’Acquedotto Pugliese
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All events →Death Anniversary: Émile Gallé — September 23, 1904
Cezanne et nous — Grand Palais, Paris
Churches and Religious Heritage in Transformation — COMECE, Brussels
Setmana i Fira Modernista d’Alcoi: Art Nouveau takes the streets — Alcoy, Spain
From the Magazine
View all →UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near the Major Mining Sites of Wallonia: The 1956 Marcinelle Disaster That Killed 262 Miners, the Model Industrial Village of Grand-Hornu and the Coalfield That Industrialised Europe
The Major Mining Sites of Wallonia — Grand-Hornu, Bois-du-Luc, Bois du Cazier, and Blegny-Mine…
The Symphony of Two Centuries: Leslie Boosey, Ralph Hawkes, and the Music Publishing Heritage, 1930
In 1930, in London, two rival musical publishing dynasties united: Boosey & Co. (founded…
Intuitive Language and the French Press: Alphonse Chérel and the Pedagogical Heritage of Assimil, 1929
In 1929, in Paris, polyglot scholar and engineer Alphonse Chérel published a groundbreaking pedagogical…
Alpine Cordwainers of Upper Bavaria: Lukas Meindl and the Mountain Footwear Heritage, 1928
In 1928, in the foothills of the Chiemgau Alps in Kirchanschöring, master shoemaker Lukas…
The Cooperative Grocers of the Rhineland: The Centennial Commercial Heritage of REWE Group, 1927
In 1927, in the ancient commercial city of Cologne, seventeen independent cooperative purchasing associations…
The Golden Ballotin of Brussels: Pierre Draps and the Centennial Chocolate Heritage of Godiva, 1926
In 1926, in a cobblestone artisan workshop on Rue Léopold in Brussels, master chocolatier…
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View all →Tracing a Latvian Ancestor: From the Passenger List to the Archives of Riga
The Dēliņi farmhouse, built in 1884 at Lūžņa on the Livonian Coast and moved…
Villas, Lakes and the Invention of the Romantic Journey: The Working Shores Before the Story
Villa del Balbianello, on the Dosso Lavedo promontory at Lenno, Lake Como. Photo via…
A private boat from Naples to Capri: the crossing, and what you pass on the way
The arch between the two islets of the Gaiola, off Posillipo — the first…
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A Grand Tour for Liberty Lovers — From Milan to Palermo
A curated route through ten Italian cities where the Liberty movement left its most refined architectural and decorative signatures, including overlooked palazzi and cafés.
Liberty Italy versus French Art Nouveau: Different Souls, Shared Century
Roman Heritage Off the Beaten Path: Twelve Sites You Will Not Find on the First Page of a Guidebook
Four ways to be inside the cultural ecosystem.
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