Tagged With "Weaver's Revolt"
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Re: High Atlas Bride Fair, Imchlil, Morocco
GarryRF raises an interesting point about how our perceptions change and differ on the age of "maturity." In Jewish tradition, a boy at 13 becomes an adult, and in older times could hold property and begin to form a family; today, the ceremony remains, but no one believes the boy has become a man. Louis XIII of France became king at 8; he assumed full power at 15, then the age of majority. His son, Louis XIV, followed the same path; at 15 he returned from exile during the revolt of the...
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Verona: More than Romeo & Juliet
Verona from the hills, looking toward St. Anastasia and the Ponte Pietra My visit to Verona last summer was almost an accident—but a lucky one. It wasn’t on the original plan for our three weeks in Northern Italy, but online...
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Delhi NY - A drive through the Catskills
If you have never been to the Catskill Mountains in New York State you are missing one of the real beautiful areas of the Northeastern United States. The Catskills fill the area between the Hudson River to the east and the Delaware River to the...
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Italy's orange battle acts out history
One of Europe's oldest food fights dates to Napoleon's time, but takes its backstory from the 12th century.
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Santa Fe's unique cathedral
Santa Fe's St. Francis Cathedral is a 19th-century building with classical motifs as well as Spanish and Native American influences.
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Wandering in Santa Fe, New Mexico
PHeymont spends some time strolling and watching and museuming in America's oldest capital city.
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Two Churches in Rouen
Rouen has many churches and a spectacular cathedral, but two others, one old and one new, made a big impression on PHeymont.
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Michelangelo's secret hideout to be public
A room where Michelangelo hid out after a failed revolt, and which was only rediscovered 40 years ago, is being prepared for the public.
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Nov. 21, 2017: Azraq Castle, Jordan
Join Marilyn Jones on a visit to an ancient castle with a more recent history as the headquarters of Lawrence of Arabia.
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Taos and Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
On a brief visit to Taos Pueblo and the town of Taos, PHeymont found both less and more than he expected.
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In and Around Madrid's Plaza Mayor
The Plaza Mayor is the largest open space (other than parks) in Central Madrid. It's a major tourist attraction, a place for cafes and shops that range from traditional to chic and has served for hundreds of years as a place for public gatherings,...
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William Morris at Home: Red House
PortMoresby leaves the Thames Path and visits William Morris’s Red House, a milestone in the Arts & Crafts Movement in England.
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Cerro Santa Lucia: Santiago's Steep Surprise
Cerro Santa Lucia juts up 200 feet from the nearly-flat city around it, giving this Santiago Park a mystery and history all its own.
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Alice Austen House: Worth a trip to Staten Island
Jonathan L takes us on a trip to Staten Island to explore the life of early 20th century photographer Alice Austen
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New Mexico: It ain't new, and it ain't Mexico!
January 6 th , 2014 is the 102nd anniversary of New Mexican Statehood , which makes this a good time to take a look at the exciting and unique history of our town dating back much further than our statehood. The story of Santa Fe is a multicultural tapestry that dates to the 16th century and defines it as one of the most unique, amazing capital cities in the entire United States. Eighty years after Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztecs and established New Spain, the Conquistador Don Juan de...
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Take your seat...while you still have one!
Aircraft designers are always busy trying to figure out the best way to get the most passengers in without actually provoking revolt or suffocation...and the past few days bring fearsome news on that front. Included in the roundup are dead-serious proposals to stack seats in the main cabin, to sell passenger space in the hold below the cabin, and even to squeeze business-class seats into a 12-across configuration. Not even the rich, it seems, are immune to the trend. The stacked-seat idea...
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Museum of the Revolution, Havana (Where Gumbo Was #152)
Once the Presidential Palace (and scene of an attempted coup d'etat) this impressive building is now a museum of Cuba's revolutions. In front, a piece of the 17th-century city wall.
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NYC turns on its public WiFi system
NYC has turned on its first public WiFi hotspots, part of what will turn the city's under-used phonebooths into the world's largest free public network.
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Dutch mill village calls 'Enough!"
A 60-inhabitant village with 600,000 visitors a year is worried that thousands more will soon be coming.
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Why You Should Choose to Go Melbourne for Your School Trip
Melbourne is a place that has a lot to offer both in the city as well as its surroundings. There are many tours available for you, be it a sports tour, a wildlife tour, a gourmet food tour or a sightseeing tour. The availability of these tours will make it very easy for students to organize a trip that is well informative and worthwhile. Here are some of the places you can take tours to explore in Melbourne. Image Source: Pexels Wildlife There are many Melbourne excursion ideas, but let’s...
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Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin
Jonathan L takes us on a tour of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin.
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Budapest: A Rambler's Memories
With the pandemic still keeping him at home, PHeymont travels by nostalgia to Budapest.
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Haymarket Monument, Chicago
An unusual monument to a labor movement struggle in Chicago that sparked organizing around the world, still draws expressions of solidarity.
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St. Marys, Georgia: Full of Surprises
Travel Rob explores a little city in Georgia that has a lot history and things to see.
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Fort King George Historic Site, Georgia
Travel Rob visits a site older than Georgia itself, and once the southernmost point of British power in North America.
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Virgins of Antwerp
In Antwerp, the many buildings with statues of the Virgin Mary are a reminder of religious turmoil centuries ago.
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Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Gumbo was visiting lovely St. Francis Cathedral in Santa Fe. Santa Fe's history dates back more than 400 years, while the current Cathedral is more than 150 years old.
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Musee Carnavalet: Souvenirs of Revolution
PHeymont's visit to Paris's history museum allowed him to follow a thread of revolution through centuries of French history.
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Catalonia's History: Caught in the Middle
Catalonia has long been a buffer: between Christians and Muslims, France and Spain, and more. Join PHeymont on a visit to its history museum
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Guyana's 1763 Monument
A powerful monument honors enslaved people who launched a powerful rebellion against their masters and their exploitation.
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Michelangelo 'secret sketches' go public
Michelangelo's hidden drawings, made while hiding from an angry Medici Pope, are finally going on view
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Istanbul's 'Blue Mosque'
On our first day in Istanbul, after arriving at 4:30 on a Sunday morning and heading straight to a nap we went for a walk to reconnoiter the neighborhood. What a neighborhood! Within 5 to 10 minutes easy walk we passed the Topkapi Palace, the massive Hagia Sophia, a large open square and came, face on, with the incredible Blue Mosque.
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Bamburgh Castle, England
Built on a dolerite outcrop, the location was previously home to a fort of the native Britons known as ''Din Guarie'' and may have been the capital of the British kingdom of the region from the realm's foundation in c.420 until 547.
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Clouds Hill - home of Lawrence of Arabia
T E Lawrence - British soldier, writer, historian, leader of men - was a man of contradictions. He became a celebrity in the 1920s when his heroism and charisma in the Arab campaigns of 1914-18 war caught the public imagination.
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Tallinn Cathedrals: Plain and Fancy
Lutheran and Orthodox cathedrals in the Estonian capital are a short walk apart but vastly different in tone and history
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Women Artists at MoMA, New York
Jonathan L visit MoMA and finds three exhibits featuring women artists
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France's new taxi app aims to out-Uber Uber
The French government is launching "Le Taxi," a new app that allows passengers to "e-hail" taxis from their computers or smartphones, and rate the service afterward, much like the private Uber service. Because there are 57,000 cabs in...
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France's radio war: What's French music?
A number of French radio stations are in revolt against a 1994 law that requires that 40% of the songs played on radio stations be in French.
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Marseille's Vieux Port and Forts: An Urban Hike
Marseille's central attraction, the Vieux Port really lives up to its name, the Old Port, but first glances wouldn't tell you that. It's a sizable natural harbor, sheltered from the sea, that's been an important center of trade since it was founded.
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A Stroll through Stamford and History
Old towns are not just old—they have multiple layers of age. Paul Heymont explores one of them.