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13 October 2015

Lanterns light up the night sky in Taiwan

Taipei, Taiwan

Every year, the small town of Pingxi, nestling between green mountains and hour from Taipei, fills with beauty and poetry for the end of the Chinese New Year. The fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese lunar-solar calendar is celebrated in this Taiwanese town with the Sky Lantern Festival visited by hundreds of […]

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7 January 2016

The Sundance film festival and remote America

Park City, United States

The Sundance Festival prepares to invade the whole planet with its most striking films and rewrite creative genius with its thread and with its prodigal and its scintillating stock of images, the panorama of infantile dreams and golden illusions that the cinema has always presented us with. With the mountainous panorama of Utah, the choreography […]

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22 September 2015

The Sydney Festival, the biggest people party in the world

Sydney, Australia

Interactive sites, parades with acrobats, opera, rock concerts and even Mad Max style battles. These are just some of the activities you will find at the Sydney Festival: a programme of multicultural events that use the most famous and fascinating areas of the oldest and most seductive city of Australia as a backdrop. From avant-garde […]

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28 September 2015

The BPM Festival, a stroboscopic dream at Playa del Carmen

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

It’s time for the BPM Festival Playa del Carmen, or rather how to dance all day and night to the rhythm of the songs of the major dance artists accompanied by the most famous DJs in the world. And this is all against a backdrop of the Caribbean Sea and at just a few miles […]

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Celtic Connection, folklore and blends in Glasgow

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Music, colour, warmth, tradition and innovation. Over 1500 artists in a number of venues throughout the whole of Glasgow, linking Central Glasgow to the furthest outskirts of the city. It is Celtic Connections or rather the Festival of Celtic Music but also much more because the festival is not narrow or self absorbed. Here in […]

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11 February 2016

Temple Bar TradFest, folk music in the heart of Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

The Temple Bar TradFest is an open door to Irish culture. One of those solid wood doors that attracts us when outside it is cold and you need a place to revive both soul and body. It covers rhythms punctuated by tin whistles and handclapping and leads us to an arena of smiles and red […]

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30 September 2015

Water Festival, in Cambodia for the end of the rainy season

PP, Cambodia

There is no better time to visit Cambodia and its capital Phnom Penh than the thousand year old Bon Om Tuk or Water Festival. It is held between October and November during the phase of the full moon at the beginning of the dry season when the River Sap, which flows into the Mekong River […]

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Italian Carnivals from Ivrea to Basilicata

Ivrea, Italy

The Historical Carnival of Ivrea and the war of the oranges In Ivrea you can witness a full scale three day battle fought with oranges through the streets of the town by people dressed in the Parisian “sans-culottes” fashion. But the throwing of oranges is only one of the traditional events in the Historical Carnival […]

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Shanties, in Krakow – seeking out the sense of the sea

Kraków, Poland

There’s a Polish proverb which says “better to call inn-keepers on earth than saints in the sea”. Holy words it would seem. True words if spoken by a sailor. And if the sailor is Polish, they have the weight of a sentence. That’s because Poland and the sea have always gone together, like two lovers […]

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The Venice Carnival, seduction by the lagoon

Venice, Italy

Along the streets, over the bridges and in the squares there roam a multitude of mysterious and fascinatingly disturbing masks and costumes, hiding identities and secret thoughts. Once a year, Venice is cloaked in mystery and seduction, but also century old traditions which can be revisited in the various events organised during one of the […]

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