In the years that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, many Eastern Europeans were coming to Vienna to sell some family belongings. You could find them on the Wienzeile, close to Karlsplatz on Sunday mornings. October 1993. Dans les années qui ont suivi la chute du Mur de Berlin, de nombreux Européens de l’Est…
On April 11, 1992, the Euro Disneyland theme park (today known as Disneyland Paris) opened its gates for a huge private party, before opening to the public the next day. Many international stars were supposed to be invited. But those who came were mostly TV stars or has beens (Eddy Murphy, Cher, Véronique Jannot, etc.).…
Young musicians play on one of the terraces of the Zwinger palace in Dresden. The Zwinger was destroyed, as most parts of the city, by bombing raids in 1945 but was the first building to be rebuilt in the communist era. Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the buildings were already no…
Palaces and gardens, laid out on the orders of Peter the Great, and sometimes called the « Russian Versailles », attract tourists to Peterhof (UNESCO World Heritage Site). In the Soviet Union, tourist guides, who were allowed to meet foreigners and spoke several languages, enjoyed a privileged status. This lady in the gardens was probably one of…
Szechenyi Bath is the biggest and most popular of all thermal baths in Budapest, with eighteen different pools. In one of the outdoor pools, local chess players meet and seem to play endless games. November 2012. Les bains Szechenyi sont les plus grands et les plus populaires thermes de Budapest, avec dix-huit bassins différents. Dans…
It was Palm Sunday in Cordoba. The city was quiet until I came upon this procession that made me feel I was in an El Greco painting. Incense smoke, drum and trumpet bands, heavy pasos (floats) with Passion scenes: the Holy Week in Andalusia is one of my favorite events. April 1999. C’était le dimanche…
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