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Things to do: visit the Baur foundation – Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva
Alfred Baur (1865-1951) was a Swiss businessman who spent a lot of time in Asia, and took the opportunity to collect Chinese and Japanese art. What makes his collection remarkable is first of all his impeccable good taste: he always chose quality over quantity, and the refined over the gaudy. Moreover, a few years before his death…
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The Sultan’s elephant in Antwerp
The Sultan’s Elephant was a street theater performance by Royal de Luxe, a theatre company. It was originally performed in Nantes and Amiens to commemorate the death of Jules Verne a hundred years earlier. After that, the show was performed in London, Antwerp, and other places. In all cases it drew huge crowds.The story and characters of the…
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The Japanese gardens of Clingendael
The Japanese Gardens of Landgoed Clingendael. See on: Google maps OpenStreetMap