The island became an international park in 1964. Administered jointly by Canada and the United States of America, the 1,134-hectare park was created in memory of US President Franklin Delaney Roosevelt, who first visited the park in the company of his parents, aged just one year old. The Roosevelt’s affectionately called Campobello their “beloved island”.
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I love to take them to Carinho do Vinho (Rua Nova da Piedade 23; tel. 351 21 826 1872) in Praça das Flores. It’s a slow food movement wine bar and shop. You can sip on Portuguese wine from small producers and ask all the questions you want to know answers to, as the owners are super friendly and dedicate time to their guests. Of course, the signature drink has to be wine.
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“I think it’s very beautiful. It’s a very well-loved building by local people. It’s hard to imagine Halifax without the Piece Hall,” said Claire Slattery, Arts and Heritage Manager.
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Paris has the Eiffel Tower, Sydney has its opera house and, of course, New York has the Statue of Liberty. In our age of social media and punchy, image-led digital communications icons have become more important than ever. The opening of Hamburg’s new waterfront landmark, the Elbphilharmonie, led to an inevitable flurry of activity on Instagram, Twitter and blogs in northern Germany and beyond.
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"I think Vancouver gives you a taste of the quintessential Canadian experience. You can do fun things out of doors with lots of active lifestyle options, and there’s a great variety of good food. There’s a little bit of history and you are close the mountains. You can get to Whistler easily and a bunch of different destinations right around the area," says Nicole Ford.
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"For anybody interested in trying Rwandan food I recommend Imvange, a stew, with potatoes and maize, cooked in a traditional pot. I like it because eating it makes you feel strong. People eat this before going out to cultivate the land or carry heavy things. We call it the spice of Rwanda. The Kings of Rwanda used to eat this kind of food," says Charles.
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One of the best known proponents of De Stijl’s ideals, and a founding member, was Piet Mondrian. He moved to New York City in 1940, where he is buried in the Cypress Hills Cemetery. Victory Boogie Woogie, the unfinished painting that is regarded as his masterpiece, is now displayed at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague.
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The creation is the work of Niels van Swaemen and Kasper van Leek, the talented street artists and designers behind Studio Giftig. It was unveiled in the spring of 2016. Locals are proud that John Cleese visited Eindhoven to declare the tunnel open. One end depicts a grinning Cleese as he looked back in 1970, when the Ministry of Silly Walks sketch was initially broadcast.
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The ladies of Amersfoort saved the city with beer...The ladies, who did most of the brewing in those days, decided to empty kettles with boiling hot beer from the city gates onto the ice. The result? The ice melted, the catapult sank, the army drowned. Hurray for our women!
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"Through projections on, in and outside the cube, with historic fragments and sound bites of New York in the 1940s, visitors are given a view inside the artist’s head," says Paul Baltus, the director of the Mondriaanhuis.
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