São Bento, Rio de Janeiro’s monastery
A few meters away from the noisy avenues of central Rio de Janeiro, the hill of São Bento lives in unbreakable serenity. In this...
Frankfurt, between past and future
The city of Frankfurt, ravaged by the bombings of World War II, holds an ambivalent appearance. Even if its buildings no longer hold any...
Lima, rediscovered. The adventure of amateur historians
According to a popular myth, Lima was born from deception. Pizarro, the prideful Conquistador, was looking for a land to found his...
Pages of Buenos Aires
“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...
Villages of Minas Gerais
The Minas Gerais that I discovered were wide landscapes of treeless hills, extending far into the Brazilian interior. For many...
Petrópolis, the Emperor’s refuge
The road from Rio to Petrópolis confronts us with everything the city wishes to hide. After taking the bus in a terminal buried by...
Endless São Paulo
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...
Colours of Bahía
Under a bygone sunset, five ships enter serene waters, in a bay dotted with islands and surrounded by sandy cliffs. Vespuccio, the...
Mythical birth of Rio
Brazil holds unimaginable stories, absurd conflicts between peoples from distant lands, fighting for worthless dreams. Today, those...
A Pyramid in Britanny
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,...
From Rio to Pomponesco: A Brazilian looking for her Italian ancestors
Discovering Italy in the Po Valley is like entering an uncharted land. Its landscapes do not remind of any classic image of the...
Solstice at the Dolmen
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...