The Coronavirus crisis confronted us to a reality that was thought to be impossible: a slowdown of the globalized economic system. This...

A few meters north of the Corcovado tramway, old mansions covered in azulejos calmly fall into ruin, surrounded by the lush Tijuca...

During my first stay in Rio de Janeiro, the city was nourished by hope. The World Cup had just ended, and the Olympic Games were...

A few meters away from the noisy avenues of central Rio de Janeiro, the hill of São Bento lives in unbreakable serenity. In this...

In a Forest deep in the heart of France, a group of engineers and volunteers builds a stone castle, using only medieval tools. A colossal...

The city of Frankfurt, ravaged by the bombings of World War II, holds an ambivalent appearance. Even if its buildings no longer hold any...

According to a popular myth, Lima was born from deception. Pizarro, the prideful Conquistador, was looking for a land to found his...

“Every Argentine knows that the South begins at the other side of Rivadavia. Dahlmann was in the habit of saying that this was no mere...

The Minas Gerais that I discovered were wide landscapes of treeless hills, extending far into the Brazilian interior. For many...

The road from Rio to Petrópolis confronts us with everything the city wishes to hide. After taking the bus in a terminal buried by...

Flying over the coasts of the South, cities turn into little webs of lights, separated by vast spaces of darkness. Between the Rio de la...

Under a bygone sunset, five ships enter serene waters, in a bay dotted with islands and surrounded by sandy cliffs. Vespuccio, the...

Dwarfed by the gigantic halls of the building, Jean Mouanga reaches for the elevator, dragging his broken leg along. “This place used to...

Brazil holds unimaginable stories, absurd conflicts between peoples from distant lands, fighting for worthless dreams. Today, those...

The cairn of Petit-Mont is a ruin disfigured by time. Built millenia ago on a peninsula in Britanny, it was mutilated by a Nazi bunker,...

Discovering Italy in the Po Valley is like entering an uncharted land. Its landscapes do not remind of any classic image of the...

Far in the depths of Britanny, an ancient neolithic monument stands: the Roche aux Fées Dolmen.Once a year, on the dawn of the winter...

There are two ways to land in Rio de Janeiro. The first one is in Santos Dumont, an airport built along the shores of the bay. Seeing a...