UNITED KINGDOM SUMMER PEARLS: London's architectural gems along the banks of the Thames
MUSIC: Europe's best pop and rock gatherings
BAGPIPES: The plaintive sounds of Scotland
SUBMARIUM: Journey to the bottom of the sea FESTIVALS: Fun in the sun in West Belfast
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FRANCE and SWITZERLAND VULCANIA: Blow your top at France's volcano park
ART: Berthe Morisot, the unknown Impressionist
FESTIVALS: Aix-en-Provence has it all
ART: The Barbizon School painters come to life
ART: Take a stroll through medieval gardens of delight
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SPAIN, PORTUGAL, ITALY and GREECE SALAMANCA: The city splashes out on culture
MUSIC: God's rock stars: the singing Greek monks
FOOD: Italy's unusual culinary delights
FILM: Great outdoor viewing in Rome
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GERMANY and BENELUX HORTICULTURE: The world blossoms at Floriade
BRUGGE: Belgium's second city shines
ART: Berlin's homage to multiculturalism ART: The best of the world's artists on show at Documenta 11
DANCE: Czech twin ballerinos steal the show in Hamburg MORE ..
CENTRAL and EASTERN EUROPE ART: Yugoslavia's modern art museum is back
ART: A retrospective of Samizdat art and writing from the Communist bloc
GRAZ: Austria's little-known city of culture
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THE NORDIC REGION DESIGN: Denmark celebrates Arne Jacobsen
MUSEUM: Get a blast from the past at Stalin World
STOCKHOLM: Welcome to the Venice of the North
MUSIC: Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes on tour MORE ..
PLUS LISTINGS: Other things to see and do in each region
Electronica, Graffiti and ... Porto Leeks
PADUA: Giotto’s decorations of the Scrovegni Chapel held up well for 650 or so years. But botched repairs, earth-quakes and the breath of visitors had taken their toll before their recent 112 million, 8-month restoration. The halos are newly golden, the tickets tougher than ever and 15 minutes of contemplation is your lot.
all year from 9:00-19:00 • tel: +39 049 20
100 20• www.cappelladegliscrovegni.it
MILAN: "Renaissance New York" at the Palazzo Reale pays tribute to the victims of Sept. 11 and to the postwar art of the city. Few of the 93 works loaned by the Whitney Museum (from Hopper and Pollock to Haring and Basquiat) have ever been seen in Europe.
until Sept. 15 • tel: +39 02 875
672• www.rcs.it/mimu/musei/palazzo_reale/
presentazione.htm
BARCELONA: The Sonar Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art is far more fun than its title suggests. A trade fair and show-case for music labels and multimedia professionals by day, at night it’s a boisterous, sellout party with the stars coming out to play: Arto Lindsay, Pet Shop Boys, Yo La Tengo, Lamb and DJs Jeff Millls, Carl Cox and Roger Sanchez.
June 13-15 • tel: +34 902 150 025 •
www.sonar.es
FLORENCE: Michelangelo’s work for the Medicis had
a huge impact on the art and architecture of Florence. The Shadow
of Genius exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi collects 150 works
from the man himself, his contemporaries and his followers to
prove it.
June 13-Sept. 29• tel: +39 055 264
5155
GREECE: While Athens tries to make itself spick-and-span
for the 2004 Olympic Games, 16 local and international graffiti
artists are fanning out across the country defacing walls with
themes "inspired by the Olympic ideals of friendship, solidarity
and peace." Chromopolis is just one early event of the
100 or so planned for the €117 million Cultural Olympiad
leading up to the Games.
June 22-July 21 • tel: +30 1(0) 8676125 •
www.chromopolis.gr
• www.cultural-olympiad.gr
PORTO: A Portuguese saying has it that Lisbon plays, Braga prays and Porto works. But once a year for the Festival of São João, the people of Porto let down their hair and get hit on the head by a leek — just one of the bizarre, time-shrouded rituals along with jumping over fires and garlic waving that make this a party to remember, if not quite believe.
June 22-24 • tel: +351 22 339 3472 •
www.portoturismo.pt
AREZZO: The spirit of Woodstock is alive in the heart of Tuscany at the five-day Arezzo Wave Love Festival. Like ’69 it’s all free but for Baez read Ani di Franco, for Sha-Na-Na read Ozomatli, for Crosby Stills Nash & Young read Mercury Rev. The food should be better though.
July 3-7 • tel: +39 0575 401 722 •
www.arezzowave.com
And a last tango in ... SITGES: Take a holiday and dance the tango every night on the beach at Sitges’ ninth International Festival. With afternoon classes, a ball every night and performers including Buenos Aires’ Orquesta La Nacional.
July 17-21 • tel: +34 93 443 0605 •
www.tangositges.com
