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Wijnbar diVino Amsterdam

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Wijnbar diVino is a special winery if you like Italian wines. This place in Amsterdam brings all the bottles from this European country.

The Capitoline Museums Rome

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The Capitoline Museums is the oldest city museum in the world, with many valuable works donated by different Popes.

A great event to enjoy Berlin in a different way is the exhibition that the New National Gallery on the collection of works of art, ´Modern Times. The Collection (1900-1945)´. which will be open until the 3rd of October. The exhibition is organized around the works of the modernist period and will give way to the exhibition that will cover the period after the Second World War. The exhibition recovers the convulsive history that the Berlin National Gallery lived through these works. From 1900 until the end of the Second World War, both Berlin and the Gallery lived the avatars of a political era of great changes: two World Wars, oppressive politics and social convulsions. We just have to go back to 1937 when the Nazi regime imposed oppressive rules on art, qualifying expressionism as ´degenerate art´, banning the exhibition of artists of this trend, persecuting and murdering the artists who defied this rule. During that period, the Berlin National Gallery lost innumerable works of art, like the work of the German expressionist painter Franz Marc, ´Tower of Blue Horses´. The division of Germany meant a rupture in the art trends that, until 1945, had built the most brilliant avant-garde in Europe. Many artists emigrated from Germany to the United States during the War and others fled to East Germany as a political compromise at the end of the war. And so, while in East Germany the artists took up a role of art workers for the socialist ideology that the USSR dictated, in West Germany other avant-gardes came up who rebelled against capitalism and the industrial society. The... read more