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Journey Into The Unknown

For centuries now, every once in three years, The Feast of Immortality – Kumbh Mela, takes place alternatively in four Indian centers : Allahabad and Hardwar (Uttar Pradesh state), Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh) and Nasik (Maharashtra). Descending from Vedic mythology, the feast

Nights In Serampore

excerptI will never forget the nights spent with Bogdanof and Van Manen around Calcutta, in Serampore and Titagarh. Bogdanof, who had been the consul of the Tsarist Empire to Teheran and Kabul for ten years, was at the time my teacher of Persian. He had made friends with

I Have Been To New China

excerptsAlthough if you observe it partially and with amusement the Chinese landscape may look like any other landscape, the fundamental impression is of being on another planet. The soil suggests here that the matter froze quickly while boiling and it stood still in dramatic

9 Mar 2009

Conferinţă de presă - Itinerare internaţională a proiectului "Culorile Avangardei"

Luni, 9 martie 2009, de la ora 12. 00, Institutul Cultural Român organizează o conferinţă de presă pe tema itinerării internaţionale a expoziţiei Culorile Avangardei. Participă Theodor Paleologu, ministrul Culturii, Horia-Roman Patapievici, preşedintele Institutului

13 Feb 2009

Carmen Sylva la Palatul Regal de la Stockholm

Pe data de 24 februarie va avea loc o seară culturală româno-suedeză în salonul Bibliotecii Bernadotte din incinta Palatului Regal de la Stockholm. În prim-plan se vor afla două personalităţi regale: regina Elisabeta a României (1843 – 1916), cunoscută sub pseudonimul

Three Centuries After Milescu

The parallel journals of two travelers, separated by more than three centuries, who crossed Asia from the west to the east, following the same route to the capital of China, offers us a human measure of the passage of time. Double photographs of the same places, even the

The Land Between Snows And Orange Trees

excerptsKartvel architecture, in its plastic traditions associated with nature and derived from nature, covered much more than the mountains; the current material of the tops was also brought down into the valleys, for towns. This is how it happened with the immense Zion

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A journey, whatever its aims, has immutable laws on the emotional plane. Thus, any pilgrimage to the Holy Places or the Orient, from the Bosphorus to the Caucasus, like blood always returning to the heart, is eventually a route that goes back to the homeland. by Florin

On Traveling And Hunting

excerptsThe greatest dream of my life, to see, with my very own eyes, the beauties and wonders of the tropical world, the hard nostalgia for those woods full of game from the Indian Archipelago, determined me to go on a hunting trip to Sumatra, together with my friend K.

Journey Around The Earth

You do not need a passport to travel to Egypt or to any other English colony. A visit card will do. In Alexandria, I made friends with the tropical flora: date trees that bear almost 100 kg of fruit each year, bananas or the cursed fruits because they grow without any effort

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True 'holy pilgrimages' are undertaken to the holy places beginning with the 14th century. Monks, laymen, young and old, well-off or needy, then also literati, leave everything behind and set out, on foot, by ship, on mules and camels, on the pious journey.

4 Mar 2009

“Transylvanian Nights” - Concerte Nicolas Simion în Belgia

Centrul Român de Informare de la Bruxelles şi Institutul Cultural Român organizează în perioada 20 - 22 martie 2009 o serie de trei concerte ale formaţiei conduse de Nicolas Simion. Turneul intitulat Transylvanian Nights face parte din programul CRIB Jazz from Romania