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The Le Train Bleu restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, a historic monument
The popular French restaurant Le Train Bleu, at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, is officially classed as a historic monument. The refined establishment takes its name from the famous luxury passenger train that ran to the French Riviera. But at the outset it was simply a buffet, the lavish
Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage
About 200 Iron Age tombs found during restoration of a building in Trento, Italy
In Trento, Italy, a large Iron Age burial ground with some 200 tombs has been found during the restoration of a historic building. The burials survived thanks to ancient floods, which "sealed" the site for 2,500 years. The tombs contained cremated remains, as well as objects such
Archaeology · The East · Museums · Heritage
Cleveland Museum of Art to return bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius from Bubon to Turkey
A bronze statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, held by the Cleveland Museum of Art (USA), is to be returned to Turkey after years of scholarly and legal inquiry. The statue, dated to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD, was illegally removed from the ancient city of Bubon in the
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
"The Book House", or the Comecon Building on Novy Arbat, Declared Unfit for Use and Due for Demolition, in Soviet Print
Faith · Heritage · Rome
In the little Roman basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, in the left aisle of the church, a reliquary is kept containing the skull of the Christian priest Valentine, who may be that very saint glorified in 496
There were several Christian figures of roughly the same period bearing the name Valentine, and alas, there is no way of establishing precisely which of the surviving remains are those of a saint. But the skull from Santa Maria in Cosmedin is venerated by many
Faith · Museums · Heritage
Forty items, including seven 17th-century icons, return to the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum
Forty historic objects have returned to the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve after restoration. Among them are 7 icons of the seventeenth century from the monasteries of the Russian North: Ferapontov, Kirillo-Belozersky and the Nilo-Sorsky Hermitage, restored by specialists of the Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Humanitarian University (PSTGU)
Geography · Heritage · Society · Humour
If You Dreamed of a Paris Without Crowds of Chinese Tourists
Visit the village in the Chelyabinsk Region, founded in 1842 by the Orenburg Cossack Host and named in honour of the Russian army's victory at Paris. Not far from Paris, one may also visit other monuments to the victories of Russian troops in Europe: the villages of Leipzig,
Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage sends Rubens’s “Bacchus” for restoration ahead of the artist’s 450th anniversary
The painting "Bacchus" by Peter Paul Rubens, held in the Hermitage, has been sent for restoration. The work will take about two years and is to be completed in time for the 450th anniversary of the artist's birth. The need for restoration is explained by the
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage
Coțofenești Helmet and Three Dacian Gold Bracelets Stolen from Drents Museum in Assen
In the night of 24 to 25 January, four valuable archaeological exhibits were stolen from the Drents Museum in Assen (the Netherlands): the Helmet of Coțofenești and three Dacian gold bracelets. All the exhibits had been lent by the National Museum of Romanian History for the exhibition “Dacia: Empire of
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
Statue of Saint Christopher destroyed, cathedral made Temple of Reason in the French Revolution
The Statue of Saint Christopher in Notre-Dame. The colossal statue of Saint Christopher, dated to 1433 and standing opposite the pillar by the west entrance of the Cathedral, was destroyed during the French Revolution. The Cathedral was turned into a "Temple of Reason". Inside it they set
Architecture · Faith · Cinema · Moscow · Heritage · Education
School No. 36 in the Zachatievsky Convent on Ostozhenka: built in 1936, demolished after closing in 2002
A Grave Beside the School Walls? It was an interesting spot in Moscow, and surely some of my subscribers remember the building of School No. 36, which operated until 2002 inside the Conception Convent on Ostozhenka. The school building went up in 1936 on the site of a demolished church,