His name is forever linked to a colour, the deep cobalt blue that Jacques Majorelle, the visionary painter and gardener, painted on the walls of his villa-workshop in Marrakech in the early 1930s. And to an enchanting garden, the work of...
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Dominating the south coast and highlands of Iceland, Europe's largest glacier majestically stretches its tongues of ice and ash between mountains of black basalt. A moment of grace in an ever-changing polar landscape...
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You enter the gallery like a bee, an innocent thief of meaning, thinking you can pick up whatever Apichatpong Weerasethakul hands you. A pirouette on oneself is all it takes to get round the installation: 4 photographs and 3 short videos, that's what Apichatpong Weerasethakul...
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Rajasthan. «Land of Kings» in Sanskrit. A land of the sacred above all. A dive into the biggest religious festival of the Bhil tribes. They are blacksmiths, shepherds, or farmers. In the distant past, they were an influential group in Rajputana (the former name…
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10 kilometres from the town of Paphos, near the village of Tala, the monastery of Saint Neophyte is well worth a visit. Not least for its magnificent frescoes. This monastery was founded at the end of the 12th century by the hermit Neophytos...
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52 islets at high tide, 365 at low tide, not counting the reefs. This is Chausey, Europe's largest archipelago, with its rocky outcrops scattered across an area of 5,000 hectares at ebb tide. A walk through incomparable landscapes...
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At the heart of the little-known Haute-Marne department, the town of Langres boasts a remarkable historical heritage and natural setting. This piece of France, perched at an altitude of five hundred metres, is a real challenge to the passing of time. Here, the...
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We are given a breath of fresh air in this travel book, magnificently composed by Matthieu Ricard. The one hundred and fifty or so black and white photographs that illustrate it, most of which were taken in the Himalayas, are seen as a kaleidoscope of...
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To the east of the Bay of Tunis, the promontory of Sidi Bou Saïd is home to an Andalusian-style village that has long remained impenetrable to outsiders. A hotbed of spirituality, this peaceful fishing village was to become famous in the 1920s...
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