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Porto Maravilha, a Carioca illusion

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...

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...

Guédelon: Building a Castle in Modern Times

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...

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...

The Palacio Abraxas: a utopia that wants to be reborn

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

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,...

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...

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