Tag: unesco
Tikal
Passing nearby in 1525, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés never spotted the silent buildings of the great city state Tikal, already hidden for centuries by thick jungle.
Trier
Germany’s oldest city, Trier was an important centre of the Roman Empire and sometime home to the Emperor himself.
Lisbon
Like the explorers in their carracks and caravels, Lisbon’s status as hub of the whole world has long since set sail, but there’s still much to discover here.
Sintra
Romantic architecture and the stuff of pure whimsy: welcome to Sintra and its castles in the sky!
Toledo
Half an hour or so by train from Madrid’s Atocha station, Toledo is readily accessible to visitors yet remains happily aloof from overdevelopment.
Pont du Gard
One of the world’s finest remaining examples of Roman engineering and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Milan
Think of Italy and the Pisan belltowers and Roman arenas of our mind aren’t usually capped with snow. It’s February and this is Milan!
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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Köln and Bonn
Thirtieth birthday treat: a weekend by train to two German cities and a marvellous art exhibition.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
After Dark
Not in the same league as Murakami’s best work. Not that his English language publisher would have you believe that.
- Originally published: 18 Sep 2008 in Books
Ocean’s Thirteen
A golden jackpot to help raise the budget for a proper film. Like Las Vegas, this film is loud, garish and steals your money.
- Originally published: 9 Jul 2007 in Film
Istanbul
A crazy city of 13m people where East meets West, Istanbul has always been a vast, confusing metropolis. Some things never change!
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Middle East
La Dolce Vita
This masterpiece of stylish satire, full of memorable images remains nevertheless aloof.
- Originally published: 12 Feb 2007 in Film
Dark Habits
A breezy, inconsequential tale of nuns with nowhere to run.
- Originally published: 12 Sep 2006 in Film
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
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Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.