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Unpretentious Melbourne: Arts Heartland of Australia

As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through fraud when adventurer John Batman, an Australian who spoke in several aboriginal dialects, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of investors. While offering the Aborigines any compensation at all was progressive in a colonial culture that preferred to simply run them [...]

Piazza San Marco - One of the World’s Most Beautiful Squares

  One of the world’s most stunning squares, Piazza San Marco (St. Mark’s Square) is the heart of Venice, a vast open space bordered by an orderly procession of arcades marching toward the fairy tale cupolas and marble lacework of the Basilica di San Marco. Alwyas packed by day with tourists and fluttering pigeons, it can be [...]