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yoshitomo nara

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rene burri, switzerland, juf, the highest village in europe, 1967

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We love less explored places, villages, towns and cities that should get so much more attention that they actually receive.

Argegno in Italy is one of our favourite less explored places. You’d think that its location, on the shores of Lake Como - one of Italy’s most touristed spots - would mean that it suffered from overtourism. On the contrary, thanks to a number of factors, hardly anyone ends up staying there.

Find out why it’s difficult to beat Argegno’s irresistible and authentic charm at https://heretotravel.com/argegno/

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These geodesic domes are part of a hotel in Finland called Hotel Kakslauttanen. The domes are designed in the shape of an igloo, and allow guests to sleep under the stars and the glow of the northern lights. 

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The Cancun Underwater Museum, based in Cancun, Mexico, is a series of over four hundred submarine sculptures spread across the ocean floor. Many of the sculptures commemorate the slaves who were thrown overboard to their deaths.

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TEN MORE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIBRARIES AROUND THE WORLD

You can read my previous ‘Top Ten Most Beautiful Libraries Around The World’ post here.

1. The National Library of the Czech Republic - Prague, Czech Republic

2. Admont Abbey Library - Admont, Austria

3. Trinity College Library - Dublin, Ireland

4. The Royal Portuguese Library - Rio de Janiero, Brazil

5. Stuttgart Municipal Library - Stuttgart, Germany

6. George Peabody Library - Baltimore, United States

7. Wiblingen Monastery Library - Ulm, Germany

8. University of Iowa Law Library - Des Moines, United States

9. Walker Library - Minneapolis, United States

10. Vennesla Library - Vennesla, Norway

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Hydrospeeding on the Aletsch Glacier in Valais, Switzerland.

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Room of Rainbows, Crystal Palace, Madrid, Spain.

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Zand Hotels, located in the Europea towns of Oss and Sneek in Holland, are the world’s first hotels constructed entirely out of sand. The two hotels are temporary in nature, and have fully furnished one-room suites with modern amenities, such as electricity, running water, glass windows, king size beds, soft carpets, luxurious bathrooms, and Wi-Fi. The suites cost $168 per night, and organizers are planning on opening more in Belgium and Germany. 

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Monemvasia is an island off the coast of Peloponnese in Greece with a population of 21,000. Nestled into the rock face and hidden from view from all but those who know it’s there, Monemvasia dates back to the 6th century AD, settled by inhabitants seeking refuge from Slavic invaders. Its name, a portmanteau of the Greek words mone and emvasia, means “single entrance” and refers to the causeway that connects the island to the rest of Greece.

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The Stairway To Heaven at Villa Honegg, Switzerland.

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The Tunnel of Lights in Ireland. 

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Ginnie Springs, Florida. 

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Iguaza Falls, on the border of Argentina and Brazil, is one of the widest waterfalls on Earth.

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Underrated form of intimacy: being silly together

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Central to the film is a reclamation of the Orpheus myth, a version of which the three young women read aloud together one night. Sophie registers distress at Orpheus’s fatal, selfish incompetence in looking back at Eurydice when he was told not to, and Marianne suggests he may have done it on purpose, preferring to lose the woman and savor, instead, the romance of his grief, making not “the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.” But it’s Héloïse who removes, for once, the fixation on Orpheus, his failings, and his loss. What if, she says to Marianne with an edge of defiance, it was Eurydice herself who chose art over staying together, who rather than leave the underworld with Orpheus, stopped and called out “Turn around,” preferring to remain down there and be preserved in poetry. A kind of freedom and a kind of permanence, rather than, as eighteenth-century marriage looks to be, an unwilling exchange of one for the other. —  In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Love is a Work of Art

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Lisel Mueller