Dumbo is one of New York City’s premier arts districts, with a cluster of for-profit art galleries and such not-for-profit institutions as the St. Ann’s Warehouse and the A.I.R. Gallery. Chef Jacques Torres opened a chocolate factory in Dumbo in December 2000. Other culinary businesses in the area include Grimaldi’s, the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, the River Café, and, in the One Old Fulton Street building, Pete’s Downtown Restaurant. All of these businesses cluster in Fulton Landing, which is also home to Bargemusic, a floating venue for classical music.
Gouyave is the third-largest fishing town in Grenada and is known as, “the town that never sleeps” and does a fine job living up to its name. It is also called the “action city”, and is known for its social events, festivals, (fish friday), carnival, and dances/party. Gouyave was just a subsistence economy of poor fishermen and rural nutmeg/cocoa farmers, but has blossomed into a cosmopolitan town with fine houses, glittering bars, clubs, attractive nightlife, appealing festivals, and a reputation for its entertainment. Originally called Charlotte Town after Queen Charlotte of Britain, it was renamed Gouyave by the French because of its large amounts of guava trees. One of the town’s annual celebrations is Fisherman’s Birthday, also known as “29th June”. On the day of June 29, fishermen come from all over Grenada for competitive boat racing, entertainment, fish foods, and many other activities. Also, every Friday the town celebrates “Fish Friday”, a warm atmosphere of locals and tourists socializing and eating all sorts of fish dishes and meals.It is a weekly festival that offers a wide range of food (fish) and entertainment.
San Telmo is the oldest barrio (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is a well-preserved area of the Argentine metropolis and is characterized by its colonial buildings. Cafes, tango parlors and antique shops line the cobblestone streets, which are often filled with artists and dancers. San Telmo’s attractions include old churches (e.g. San Pedro Telmo), museums, antique stores and a semi-permanent antique fair (Feria de Antigüedades) in the main public square, Plaza Dorrego. Tango-related activities for both locals and tourists are in the area.
Mariinsky Theatre. St. Petersburg, Russia.
Ahilya Fort, India
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The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Grand Mosque of Damascus located in the old city of Damascus, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. It is considered the fourth holiest place in Islam.
After the Arab conquest of Damascus, the mosque was built on the Christian basilica dedicated to John the Baptist since the time of the Roman emperor Constantine I. The mosque holds a shrine which still today contains the head of John the Baptist (Yahya), honored as a prophet by both Christians and Muslims alike.
In 2001 Pope John Paul II visited the mosque, primarily to visit the relics of John the Baptist. It was the first time a pope paid a visit to a mosque.
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Nuit Blanche Festival
Nuit Blanche (literally White Night, All-Nighter or Sleepless Night in French) or Light Night is an annual all-night or night-time arts festival. Its exact beginning is disputed between Paris, St Petersburg, and Berlin, but, taking elements from all of these, the idea of a night-time festival of the arts has spread around the world since 1997, taking hold from Toronto to Tel Aviv and Lima to Leeds. A Nuit Blanche will typically have museums, private and public art galleries, and other cultural institutions open and free of charge, with the centre of the city itself being turned into a de facto art gallery, providing space for art installations, performances (music, film, dance, performance art), themed social gatherings, and other activities. The current all-night festivals have their roots in several cities. St Petersburg, for two hundred years capital of the Russian Empire and still a major European cultural centre, is one of the world’s most northerly cities, and as such has long summer days broken only by a period of twilight from mid-May to mid-July, the celebrated phenomenon known as the white nights. This led to the annual celebrations known as the White Nights Festival, which features years of pop culture (e.g. the Rolling Stones in the open air at Palace Square) and high culture events (“Stars of the White Nights Festival” at the Mariinsky Theatre), street carnivals, and the Scarlet Sails celebration, known for its fireworks. So “white nights” in the Russian context is both a natural phenomenon of the summer, and a long-standing cultural festival that spreads over weeks or months in midsummer.Another similar festival that contributed to the White Nights came out of Germany. The first Long Night of Museums took place in the newly re-united Berlin in 1997 with a dozen participating schools and exhibitions; the number has risen to 125, with over 150,000 people taking part in the January 2005 night. The idea has spread to other cities: in addition to the Langen Nacht der Museen in Berlin, there is a museums-n8 event in Amsterdam.The third strand that has contributed to the international Nuit Blanche concept is the event of that name launched by the Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë in 2002.Wherever the idea originated from, and whatever names are used, the White Nights have expanded dramatically, with events in over 120 cities.In October 2010, New York City hosted its first Nuit Blanche event, entitled Bring to Light, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Produced and curated in cooperation between a number of local community organizations and individuals, the event seeks to create a strong connection between participating artists and the local community.
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Tikal (or Tik’al according to the modern Mayan orthography) is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centres of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala.
Tikal was the capital of a conquest state that became one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya.Following the end of the Late Classic Period, no new major monuments were built at Tikal and there is evidence that elite palaces were burned. These events were coupled with a gradual population decline, culminating with the site’s abandonment by the end of the 10th century.
The Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria, often simply referred to as La Boqueria, is a large public market in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and one of the city’s foremost tourist landmarks, with an entrance from La Rambla, not far from theLiceu, Barcelona’s opera house. The market has a very diverse selection of good
