Visa to Monaco
Citizens of Russia to visit the Principality of Monaco will need a Schengen visa with a French “accent”: since there is no diplomatic representation of Monaco in Russia, documents for…
Category: Europe
Entertainment and Attractions of Sintra, Portugal
The historical center of Sintra is a labyrinth of streets, stairs, arcades and unusual palaces, so it is best viewed on foot or by car. Almost anywhere in the city,…
Finland Fast Facts
Finland is located in northern Europe, bordering Norway, Russia and Sweden. Friends of the white sport get their money’s worth in the beautiful country, as do northern light hunters and…
Geography of Latvia
General information about Latvia The official name is the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika). Located in the northeast of Europe. The area is 64.6 thousand km2, the population is 2.375…
Uludag, Turkey
How to get to Uludag Getting to Uludag is not so easy, so now we will provide you with an almost step-by-step instruction, and you will use it at your…
Elbe, Italy
“I could do everything before I saw Elba” – this famous English palindrome (“Able was I ere I saw Elba”) speaks perfectly about the island, equally amazing as the phrase…
Estonia Brief History
The Esti, mentioned by Tacitus, appeared on the Baltic perhaps even before the beginning of our era. It passed through their territory in the 9th century. the way of the…
Switzerland Modern Literature
The evolution of romanticism towards a clear accentuation of national values created in the century. XIX a new situation. The feeling of the unity of the people, as a force…
Greece Minor Arts Part 6
Luxuriant luxuriance in the glyptic occurs in Hellenism. According to WATCHTUTORIALS, there are numerous signatures: Agatopo, Apollonio, Atenione, Boeto, probably the sculptor of Chalcedon, Daedalus, Heraclida, Phidias, Filone, Gelone, Licomede,…
Greece Minor Arts Part 5
From the heroic head of Alexander the Great, provided with ram’s horns in the snaking locks of hair, on the coins of Lysimachus, king of Thrace (306-281), through the effigies…
Greece Minor Arts Part 4
For the sec. IV we know the name of an excellent toreuta, Mentor, and perhaps Mie dates back to the same century; but it is especially in the Hellenistic age,…
Greece Minor Arts Part 3
For the bronze pottery of the sixth and fifth centuries, some typical examples can be adduced, in which the casting technique appears, no longer that of hammering: the tondo di…
Greece Minor Arts Part 2
Especially the Asian city of Myrina has offered abundant congeries of these Hellenistic terracottas, but many are also those coming from various centers of Sicily. And the types are very…
Greece Minor Arts Part 1
In the minor arts we can include the coroplasty, the toreutics, the goldsmith’s art, the art of the coin, the glyptic, the ivory carving. Of coroplastica we have the first units in…
Greece Literature – Roman (30 BC-527 AD) Part 6
Following the fervor of studies aroused in the century. III both by Neoplatonic philosophers and scholars and by Christian theologians, we are presented in the century. IV a rich literary…
Greece Literature – Roman (30 BC-527 AD) Part 5
In such times and in such conditions it is understood that poetry was little and badly represented. He continued to express himself, by force of inertia, in the forms of…
Greece Literature – Roman (30 BC-527 AD) Part 4
Luciano had begun his activity as a rhetoric scholar: he was a lawyer and lecturer, one of those who were giving declamations and readings from city to city, from country…
Greece Literature – Roman (30 BC-527 AD) Part 3
Such are the Roman stories written respectively by Appiano of Alexandria (about 160) and by Cassius Dione Cocceiano (about 155-235). But most of the production is aimed at satisfying scholarly…
Greece Literature – Roman (30 BC-527 AD) Part 2
Thus, first of all, Sacred Scripture was translated and disseminated in the version of the Seventy; thus other works arose, of an apologetic, historical, propaganda character, such as the Letter of…
Greece Literature – Roman (30 BC-527 AD) Part 1
When the whole Hellenic or Hellenized world fell under Roman rule, Greek literature was definitively deprived of its individuality; and although it still extends for several and several centuries with…
Russia During the Period of Troubles
As the Swedes and Poles became more and more threatening, the struggle within the country flared up between the old nobility and the opri č niki, former praetorians of the…
Greece Museography
The museums and collections that contain monuments of Greek art can be divided into four main categories: from Greece and the Hellenic East, from Italy, from Europe, from other parts…
Germany After the Catastrophe
The Hitlerite regime which had promised the German people a millennial Reich, plunged that people into the most frightening catastrophe in its history; catastrophe which, in its proportions, is not…
Spain History – The New Kingdom of Spain Part 2
The terrorist activity of ETA had provoked a progressive distancing of Basque public opinion from the reasons of the independence movement, a distancing that had been translated into harsh condemnation…
Spain History – The New Kingdom of Spain
The transition to democracy was mainly the work of the government chaired by A. Suárez González (July 1976-Jan. 1981), whose UCD (Unión de centro democrático, coalition of moderate parties) won…
Cairngorms National Park in Scotland
At 3800 square kilometers, the Cairngorms National Park, founded in 2003, is the largest of the 15 British national parks. The Caingorms mountain range in the Grampian Mountains was formed…
Middelburg, Haarlem and Zutphen, Netherlands
Middelburg 100 monuments in the capital of Zeeland – Netherlands Middelburg is a Dutch municipality and is located on the Walcheren peninsula. It is the capital of the province of…
Russia State Overview
Geography The Russian Federation stretches across most of the northern supercontinent Eurasia so there is a great variety of landscapes and climates. Most of the landscape consists of huge plains,…
Europe Geography
Europe is a continent that extends over the western fifth of the Eurasian land mass. Although it is geographically a subcontinent that together with Asia forms the continent of Eurasia,…
France Arts and Culture
CULTURE: ART. FROM THE FRANCO TO THE ROMANESQUE PERIOD The conversion of the Franks to Catholicism and the spread of monastic orders brought about an artistic and cultural awakening in…