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When thinking of Italian architecture, what’s most likely to come to people’s minds are the iconic Roman structures and ruins Italy is strewn with. But contemporary Italian architecture is not to be underestimated – on the contrary, one of the world’s most famous starchitects is Italian: Renzo Piano.
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The von Bartha art gallery in the little town of S-chanf, high up in Switzerland's Engadin Mountains, is the perfect cultural stop-off for skiers whizzing by.
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Arts and the Alps is an alluring combo - so next time in the Engadin Valley, St. Moritz, pop into Vito Schnabel’s Art Gallery in the Clouds for a cultural rest-bite from hiking & ski.
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Cool design, contemporary styling and a hug to local island culture make our pick of four easy-to-get-to Cycladic island escapes of Santorini, Tinos, Syros and Koufonisia, all the more irresistible.
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During the summer months, the once crowned Monte Carlo of the Alps, the spa town & resort of Bad Gastein, plays host to an inspiring Artists-in-residence cultural programme: sommer.frische.kunst. 2022.
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A city of effortless cool & pioneering Scandi design Copenhagen has long been at the heart of the world’s ceramics stage, from practical to the performative.
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A true Danish design icon, Copenhagen's Vibskov reaches to the outer edges of fashion with his rebellious style, bright designs & famed 'Piggy' series.
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With an extraordinarily creative mind, Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (1846 – 1923), was known for taking his own approach which can be seen in this revealing museum which showcases his graphic arts, caricatures, ceramics, object design and decoration.
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Porto for culture seekers - we explore the Serralves Foundation comprising of a dusty pink 1930-40s’s Art Deco villa designed by Porto architect José Marques da Silva, a landscape-specific contemporary museum designed by Álvaro Siza.
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Meet Lisbon's internationally acclaimed graffiti artist Diogo Machado, known for his work as Add Fuell, as he stencils tile designs onto the one and only Casa Amora, in a city full of graffiti art.
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Lisbon's sleek MAAT is the city's latest cultural hub, where the worlds of architecture, art and tech collide - a museum of force in glazed ceramic form.
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Travel to Portugal's fairy-tale den of Sintra, just outside Lisbon, for a world full of rolling hills and castles, once referred to by Byron as "glorious Eden".
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