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Village Lagich

Hello bloggers, today, we are gonna travel to the village of Lagich in Azerbaijan with our Life Beyond Tourism University Delegate Gulnara Safarova from Baku, Azerbaijan! Enjoy the trip! Last summer I visited a very beautiful and interesting place. Insulation made Lagich a very atypical place within Azerbaijan: there  still is widespread Indo-European dialect, coming [...]

Architectural- ethnographic museum Hohlovka

Perm architectural – ethnographic museum (real wooden city) is located in a village called with the same name, which is 45 kilometers from Perm. The museum is located on a picturesque high hill washed by the Kama river on the three sides. 19 monuments of wooden architecture of the Perm area (XVII-XX centuries) are located [...]

Open-air painting with water colour technologies!

Hi bloggers, While the Romualdo Del Bianco Fondation with Life Beyond Tourism is welcoming in Florence, Italy, the workshop Open air on the estates Medici in the environments of Florence and Lastra Signa, we decided to  give you some information about open-air painting! How?? By  a little watercolour lesson by Professor Yuri Kolomiets from Kiev [...]

When San Gimignano and Prague meets through art

Hi bloggers, as we say in the Life Beyond Tourism ethos, contemporary art & traditional knowledge can truly bring two far away countries and cultures together… today this is happening in  San Gimignano (Italy) and Prague (Czech Republic), where it will be soon taking place a parallel exhibition byMarco Piazza. The exhibition Gruppo di figure [...]

Discovering Shemakha, Azerbaijan

Hi blogger, today we will discover Shemakha, in Azerbaijan together with our Life Beyond Tourism University Delegate Gulnara Safarova from Baku (Azerbijan), who wrote us: “I would like to tell about Shemakha. Shamakhs-old Azerbaijani town with a population of 43,000 inhabitants. Shemakha is a city of my ancestors. They were born and brought my grandfather [...]

Curiosity and stories about Azerbaijan’s cultural traditions

Hi bloggers, today, we are going to tell you some curiosity and stories about Azerbaijan’s cultural traditions. Author of the below article is our University Delegate Sabina Aliyeva from Baku, Azerbaijan. Also watch Sabina pictures on the Life Beyond Tourism Photoblog This Azerbaijani tradition is one of the most interesting. Novruz is a feast of [...]