Category Archives: Places
Places: Ludwig the Second first and last
The legend begins … and ends. The Bavarian king left questions throughout his life, but particularly at its extremities.
Places: Ludwig the Second first and last
The legend begins … and ends. The Bavarian king left questions throughout his life, but particularly at its extremities.
Places: Hermesvilla
Sissi’s hideaway in the Habsburg hunting grounds outside Vienna
Places: Schloss Zwickledt
The Austrian manor house where illustrator Alfred Kubin died, 60 years ago today.
Places: Schloss Zwickledt
The Austrian manor house where illustrator Alfred Kubin died, 60 years ago today.
Places: chez Pierre Molinier
The notorious erotomane shut-in’s Bordeaux lair
Places: Lamorna
The Cornish village where writer and artist Ithell Colquhoun lived and worked (and died)
Places: Lamorna
The Cornish village where writer and artist Ithell Colquhoun lived and worked (and died)
Places: Sissi and Fanny’s Corfu
The adjacent hillside retreats of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and “bohemian countess” Franziska zu Reventlow
Places: Sissi and Fanny’s Corfu
The adjacent hillside retreats of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and “bohemian countess” Franziska zu Reventlow
Places: Nevill Holt
The birthplace and childhood home of Nancy Cunard
Places: a Turin trinity
A stroll through good and evil, light and shadow, life and death, genius and madness, heaven and hell.
Places: a Turin trinity
A stroll through good and evil, light and shadow, life and death, genius and madness, heaven and hell.
Places: (a bit of) Gustav Meyrink’s Prague
Three stations in the writer’s early life
Places: Muskauer Park
A visit to the estate of Romantic-era polymath Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
Places: Architektenhaus
A major pre-Dada event, 100 years ago today
Places: Crowley’s Berlin
The Great Beast witnesses the Weimar twilight
Places: Isadora and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center
The siblings travel to Athens in search of the glory that was (and is) Greece
Places: Isadora and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center
The siblings travel to Athens in search of the glory that was (and is) Greece
Places: Clifton
In search of the Reverend Montague Summers
Places: Casa Grande
100 years since the death of artist and lifestyle pioneer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Places: Casa Grande
100 years since the death of artist and lifestyle pioneer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Places: Nollendorfplatz
The birth of arthouse cinema, 100 years ago today
Places: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
The centenary of a Parisian instution and its most famous performance…
Places: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
The centenary of a Parisian instution and its most famous performance…
Places: Quinta da Regaleira
It is the hill-hugging grounds which make this place so special. Stepping through the ornate portal, visitors find themselves in a miraculous micronation of evocative follies, a garden refuge out of the dream of a precocious child.
Places: Quinta da Regaleira
It is the hill-hugging grounds which make this place so special. Stepping through the ornate portal, visitors find themselves in a miraculous micronation of evocative follies, a garden refuge out of the dream of a precocious child.
Strange Flowers 