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Marble Palace, Kolkata

Jun 042010

Marble Palace is a palatial mansion of the nineteenth century in the north of Kolkata. It is located at 46 rue Muktaram Babu, Kolkata 700 007. It is one of the best preserved and most elegant mansions of nineteenth century Calcutta. The farm is famous for its marble walls and floors, where the name originated.

Marble Palace Kolkata

The house is essentially neoclassical, while the plan of their classes outdoors is largely traditional Bengali. Beside the patio is a Thakur-Dalan, or place of worship for members of the family. The building is three stories tall fluted Corinthian columns and decorated with openwork balconies and pitched roofs, built in the style of a Chinese pavilion. The restaurant also features a garden with a rock garden, a lake and a small zoo.
Since the Marble Palace is a private, photography is prohibited. Participation is free but permission must be obtained 24 hours before the West Bengal Tourist Office BBD Bag, Kolkata. Inside the house, there are guides that will increase visitors to visit the home, even if the house is still inhabited even prohibited. Marble Palace is open from 10 16:00 every day except Mondays and Thursdays.

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Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe

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May 072010

Museum of International Folk Art

Museum of International Folk Art is managed by the State Department Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. and “one of many cultural institutions to manage the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs Committee”. Founded the museum in Florence Dibella Bartlett and open to the public in 1953 and has achieved national and international awards in the world to house the largest collection of international folk art. A collection of over 135,000 items form the basis for exhibitions in four distinct wings: Bartlett, Girard, Hispanic Heritage, and Neutrogena. The original building, a gift Bartlett State has designed a noted architect John Gaw Meem New Mexico.
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe GPS coordinates: 35° 39′ 50.62″ N, 105° 55′ 34.25″ W

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Palolem Beach, Goa

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May 042010

The beach is largely unspoiled and lives as well as local fishermen and foreign tourists, who live in shacks along the beach or the main village itself. It is about a mile (2 km) long and is crescent-shaped – it can be seen throughout the end of the beach, either. Both ends of the beach consists of rocks overhanging the sea. Depths of the sea is gradually increasing, is the lowest at the ends of the north side of the beach, so it is safe for swimmers average, and currents are not fast.

Palolem Beach

Palolem beach is 2 km from the city of the boiler, which is an hour drive from the coastal town of Karwar in Karnataka and about 40 minutes from Margao (main southern city of Goa).

Palolem Beach, Goa GPS coordinates: 15° 0′ 32″ N, 74° 1′ 22″ E

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National Portrait Gallery, London

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Apr 172010

The National Portrait Gallery is an art room in London, England, housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was the first portrait room in the concern when it opened in 1856. The room moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin’s Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery.

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It has been swollen twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) also has various satellite outstations located elsewhere in the UK, mostly for aristocratic portraits. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The room is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

National Portrait Gallery, London GPS coordinates: 51° 30′ 33.73″ N, 0° 7′ 39.84″ W

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Free Space Gallery & Trace Curators

Jan 13, 1:00pm at Free Space Gallery, 2 Bartholomew Road, London, ENG

Come and join in with the first Free Space Gallery collaboration of the year with this Trace Curators and Free Space Gallery event. Artist Sam Oyelowo hosts this free illustrat...

Fridays at the Shoreditch

Jan 13, 5:00pm at The Last Days of Decadence, 145 Shoreditch High Street, London, LONDON

Join DJ Jimbo Jangles and the rest of The Shoreditch gang as we take you into the weekend in style! Jimbo plays the stuff the gets you movin’! Head down to the dance floor fo...

The Good Block

Jan 13, 6:00pm at The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London, LONDON

Bringing a new night to The Social every 2nd Friday of the month. The Good Block will blend Disco, Boogie, Hip Hop, House and Soul from the 70's to the current day. Flying acros...

Antonio Forcione & the Quentin Collins/Brandon Allen Quartet

Jan 13, 7:00pm at Hideaway, 2 Empire Mews, London, ENG

It’s no exaggeration to say that Antonio Forcione is one of the best acoustic guitar players in the world. His version of Marvin Gaye’s Heard It Through The Grapevine is sim...

La Reve

Jan 13, 7:00pm at Cafe de Paris, 3 Coventry St, London, LONDON

LA RÊVE - CABARET GRAND SPECTACULAR EVERY FRIDAY AT CAFÉ DE PARIS Since its awakening last February La Rêve has become arguably London’s leading cabaret night, attracting ...

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National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

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Apr 062010

The National Gallery of Art is a domestic art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Open to the public free of charge, the museum was established in 1937 for the people of the United States of USA by a joint resolution of the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a material art assemblage donated by Andrew W. Mellon.

National Gallery of Art

Additionally, the core assemblage has major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa moneyman Bruce, playwright J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, saint Arrell Brown Widener, Joseph E. Widener and Chester Dale. The Gallery’s assemblage of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest ambulatory ever created by Alexander Calder.

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. GPS coordinates: 38° 53′ 29.29″ N, 77° 1′ 12.04″ W

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Celebrate the New Year at Westfield Wheaton With Free Westfield Family Fun Days

Jan 13, 11:00am at Westfield Wheaton, 11160 Viers Mill Road, Wheaton, MD

The New Year is a time filled with traditions. Join Westfield Wheaton and the Westfield Family Program for Family Fun Days featuring “Cultural Traditions” - explore how othe...

26th Annual Washington Camping RV Expo

Jan 13, 12:00pm at Dulles Expo Center - South Hall, 4320 Chantilly Shopping Ctr, Chantilly, VA

This RV Show brings recreational vehicle dealers from Virginia, Maryland and several other states who show tent campers, travel trailers, 5th wheels, motorhomes, hi-line motorco...

Singles Dinner for Six – Ages 30s&40s

Jan 13, 7:00pm at Filomena Ristorante, 1063 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC

Explore different restaurants each month while getting to know other singles in the age group of your choice . . . so even if there's no love connection you'll still have a wond...

Tampa Bay Lightning at Washington Capitals 1/13

Jan 13, 7:00pm at Verizon Center, 601 F St Nw, Washington, DC

Freestyle Motocross: Nuclear Cowboyz

Jan 13, 7:00pm at 1st Mariner Arena, 201 W Baltimore St, Baltimore, MD

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Via Condotti, Rome

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Mar 132010

Via Condotti (Via dei Condotti) is a street of Rome, Italy. In Roman times it was one of the streets that decussate the ancient Via Flaminia and enabled people who decussate the Tiber to reach the Pincio hill. It begins at the Spanish steps and is named after conduits or channels which carried water to the Baths of Agrippa.

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Caffé Greco (or Antico Caffé Greco), perhaps the most famous café in leaders was established at Via dei Condotti 84 in 1760, and attracted figures much as Stendhal, Goethe, Byron, Liszt and poet to hit coffee there. Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of radio, lived at Via dei Condotti 11, until his modification in 1937.
Being near the Spanish steps the street is visited by large numbers of tourists.
Via Condotti is a center of fashion shopping in Rome, dating back to the atelier of Bulgari which opened in 1905. Now, in addition to Valentino, other designers much as Zara, Armani, Hermès, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Gucci, Prada, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana and Salvatore Ferragamo all hit stores on Via Condotti. Others much as Laura Biagiotti hit their offices there.

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