If you don’t believe in fairy tales, it may be because you haven’t yet heard of the Huntington Botanical Gardens, located in the Pasadena district of Los Angeles, California. Enclosing the world in a…

If you are walking around the San Telmo neighborhood in Buenos Aires, you might be tempted to stop for a few minutes on a bench. There, you might want to have a chat with…

This is the kind of family that can only exist in China, an incredible family that over several generations built a residence so large that only the Forbidden City and the residence of Confucius…

In an arid corner of northern Rajasthan, a community of merchants built, between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, one of the largest open-air museums in the world.…

Walking through this convent of more than two hectares, in the heart of the city of Arequipa, one wonders if being a nun in Santa Catalina, in the 16th century, was not necessarily a…

There is nothing more sinister than a city being bombed, but that is unfortunately what happened to Rotterdam during the Second World War. In order to confront the rebuilding of a devastated city, its…

To describe the Tôfuku-ji temple in Kyoto, one could have said a hundred things.  Religious: “It is one of the five great temples of Zen Buddhism in Japan.” Aesthetics: “The autumn blaze of the…

There are certainly as many shades of pink as there are shades of gray, and without making a big deal out of it (or a novel), I wanted to pick one, more Pink than…

Considered the first of the Modern Classicist, architect Andrea Palladio unfortunately never lived to see the completion of the construction of his most enigmatic work: a theater.  In 1580, the “Olympic Academy” of Vicenza,…