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Croatia’s fabulous mishmash of cultures – from ancient Greeks to Romans, Venetians, Austrians, Hungarians and Italians – has left a rich legacy all around the country. You’ll see it in the Venetian architecture of Rovinj, Korčula, Dubrovnik and Hvar, the Habsburg townhouses of Zagreb and Opatija, and the ancient Roman …

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A musical treat in Budapest The spectacular House of Music is in Budapest’s beautiful City Park. After going through the mushroom-like main entrance, you find a museum dedicated to the history of music. From the beginning of music to the modern day via Gregorian chanting and Hungarian folk, the House …

Sitting in a small, windowless room in a government building in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Mohamed Yusuf Mohamed loops another audio tape onto the dilapidated machine and presses a few buttons. He’s beginning a time-intensive process to digitize some seven decades of unique historical recordings belonging to the government-run Radio …

Have you travelled to see a particular work of art, museum, film location or cultural site that caught your imagination? Maybe the inspiration for your trip came from a great novel, or painting you just had to see in the flesh. We want to hear about a cultural highlight in …

As the Republican-led House of Representatives moves to elect Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio as Speaker, the Republican Party shows itself to be more and more out of touch with the culture. It is, after all, the cultural Year of the Femme, as both Barbie and Taylor Swift’s The Eras …

I’m on a bus, hurtling over the hills at exhilarating speed. An oxbow lake flashes into view: while geography was never a passion, the sharp curves of the meandering river as it reaches the sea at Cuckmere Haven demand my full attention. The arresting view has featured in paintings by …

The management of a Texas hotel in the U.S. reportedly invited the police to shut down a cultural event held by Nigerians from Mbaise community, which was taking place at one of their halls.   A man was heard in the background saying that they paid for the hall and …

In 2022, songs classed as Afrobeats, the trendy genre that has kept millions on their feet in the last dozen years and spurred the introduction of an African music category at the Grammy Awards only two weeks ago –  cumulatively reached 13 billion streams on streaming platform Spotify. Since 2017, …

Winning tip: Caravaggio in his element, Malta Commissioned in the early 1600s by the Order of St John in Malta, Caravaggio’s masterpiece, The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, has been hung in St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta, ever since. It is rare to view a painting in the …