The best party in Venice is the 440-year-old Festa del Redentore. Every year a remarkable 25,000 fireworks explode over Serenissima,…
When sophisticated Viennese society kitted itself out with a new wardrobe, Tall, stiff collars characterize the period, as do women's…
For much of its history, Hong Kong has been inseparable from its neon signs, both in fact and in the…
Neon signs are electric signs lighted by long luminous gas-discharge tubes that contain rarefied neon or other gases. Light-emitting tubes…
A water tank is a container for storing water. Water tanks are used to provide storage of water for use…
Yunnan is noted for a very high level of ethnic diversity. It has the highest number of ethnic groups among…
The Sienese writer Federigo Tozzi (Siena 1883 - Rome 1920) is one of the figures that made the Tuscan city…
Venetian cuisine is characterized by seafood, but also includes garden products from the islands of the lagoon, rice from the…
The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is one of the nation's…
For centuries women's clothing has exaggerated body shape to fashionable extremes. This collections shows body-shaping fashions from the eighteenth to…