You probably already heard about Pão de Ló, a traditional sponge cake from Portugal. This past weekend, we had a chance to visit the city of Felgueiras and its authentic festival, dedicated to the famous Pão de Ló de Margaride. Felgueiras is part of the Porto district and the municipality
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Photo story: Best of Porto + visit to Portugal Fashion
Our team recently visited Porto and attended the Portugal Fashion, the most important fashion industry event in the country. This was our first visit to Porto but we had high expectations – after visiting Lisbon, we are used to expect only good things associated with the brand “Portugal“. Indeed, the
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Cities & Regions
The Application for the Awards 2019 “Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism” is now open
The 2019 edition of the Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism Awards is now open for applications. The theme of this year’s edition is “Culture and Heritage for Responsible, Innovative and Sustainable Tourism” and seeks to contribute to the legacy of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, including the European
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Cultural and Creative Industries contribution to Cultural and Creative Tourism in Europe
What is the potential of Cultural & Creative Industries (CCIs) in developing new Cultural & Creative Tourism (CCT) products and services for Growth & Jobs? We recently read an interesting overview of the project that is being advanced by the Cult-CreaTE project with policy change in 8 regions. Here you
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Advanced Lifestyle
Advanced Travels: A note from Krakow
When advanced travellers meet each other, inspiring stories are told. On our new year’s trip to Krakow/Cracow, we met a very interesting gentleman from Maastricht (The Netherlands) on the Rynek Główny, Kraków’s main square. His wife is Polish and their daughter lives in Krakow so he regularly travels to Poland
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The Barcelona Declaration “Better Places to Live, Better Places to Visit”
As one of our passions is to share stories from creative and forward-looking places, we thought that it is important that our blog mentions the Barcelona Declaration “Better Places to Live, Better Places to Visit” which seeks to demonstrate what tourism and cultural heritage sectors can achieve by working more closely
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Photo story: Night Fever expo – Designing Club Culture.
We were very happy to attend the opening of the new expo in Brussels – dedicated to night clubs and the culture that surrounds it. The exhibition is titled Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today and is coproduced with Vitra Design Museum. It represents the first large-scale examination of
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May Instagram Inspiration
What inspired me on Instagram this month. ☟ Figs and coffee View this post on Instagram The perks of doing a cake shoot earlier this week, an excuse to eat cake everyday until it’s gone 🤷🏼♀️ A post shared by Jasmine Dowling (@jasminedowling) on May 30, 2018 at 11:28pm PDT
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Photo Diary: Jardin des Serres d’Auteuil of Paris
I always liked greenhouses and therefore, I was very excited to find out that there was a botanical garden right next to our hotel on our last visit to Paris. I researched it a bit before our visit. The Jardin des Serres d’Auteuil is a botanical garden set within a