Showing posts with label cities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cities. Show all posts

Venice, all Art



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Dear friends, to whom I owe so much my success.

This October, my site completed 7 (seven) years on the internet and, thanks to the prestige, hospitality and friendliness of all of you, it has just reached the number of 610,661 visitors coming from 152 different countries of our planet, and 186,449 in the partition in English.

For me, who professionally made the career of Attorney of the Autarchic State, and that after retirement I looked for something that would bring me satisfaction but also contribute somehow to those who took an interest in what I was doing - all in a simple and unpretentious way as I've always been - you can not even imagine how much it impacts me! Positive impact, for sure.

So I decided that I needed to celebrate in some way - especially the time the site has received followers - but also the significant number of people who have known my work through this page - www.culturesandart.com always with the contribution of dear friends Flavio Musa de Freitas Guimarães at the beginning, and then also the very friend Claudia Ricci, webmaster (at the cost of my insistence), now the responsible for the English versions, and general reviewer.

It was because of that date that I determined to find something that, besides being cultural, was endowed with a lot of beauty. And could I think of anything but Venice? Yes, be calm, I have not forgotten that it is not news to any of us a PPS about it, but this is the "Venice, all art", and for the title alone I do not need and should not say anything more ...

Always with my grateful affection to such special people as you are,
Delza

Český Krumlov



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My dear friends,

In order to avoid spoiling the surprise, all I have to say is that, in terms of completeness of information about all the enchantment a place can provide, this is certainly my best work.

Longing to best satisfy your expectation,as always,
My affection,
Delza


Singapore



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Dear friends,

Things of the Eastern world have long exercised a certain attraction over me, but I would say that most of my curiosity was always turned to the Chinese culture, habits, art and culture.

Suddenly, I come across some pictures and texts about the people living in the islands south of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

I liked some photos, then many of them and when I realized I had already fallen in love with everything related to what was till then only the name of an Asian country - Singapore.

Those who know it will certainly regret not having discovered all that this country can offer and with the others that - like me - couldn't or won't go there, all have my word that will take a beautiful virtual tour.

With great affection,
Delza

Italy, still...



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Dear friends,

It seems to be a conspiracy by "occult forces" – I don't know which ones nor if they even exist! What happens is that I propose myself to keep a free thought in order to see what sort of inspiration will appear for a new formatting and, when I realize what I'm doing on the internet – without boarding a ship or an airplane – there I am, still and again... in Italy!

This time – still, and now forever, in a virtual way – I even "stayed" there and at the most exquisite hotels. So I brought you a true display of what is a hosting in style in the Italian way. Be prepared...

Always with great excitement when relieved by so much beauty, I bring you also all of my affection.


Delza

Sweden


Sweden - Volume I


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Sweden - Volume II


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Dear friends,

The first photo I downloaded from the internet to compose this PPS was filed on 28.08.2011 – it was from a Stockholm Marathon that, after all, wasn't even used...

Last December I was content with about 600 compiled photos but, by intuition that it would be possible to show through better shots one, and another and many more places of which I had already downloaded several slides, I ended up closing my folder STOCKHOLM with 2,24 GB in volume of 1.343 photos.

I believe that if hadn't decided to just end, I would continue researching on Sweden till death, from its stunning capital to the most charming corners of its paradisiacal islands – if it was possible.
Great consequence: after knowing the new pictures that provoked sighs, I couldn't reduce the selection or I would withhold the ecstasies those new pictures have given me from the friends to whom I offer my works. Result: 2 (two) volumes, again.

Well, if you allow my immodesty, I dare say I brought almost everything there is to virtually see  from those lands...

Hoping my commited dedication will be always welcomed by the prestige you have been generously given me, I leave here in advance my grateful affection for you.

Delza


Fantastic Thailand


Presentation in TWO volumes:

Volume 1 - Thailand - capital Bangkok


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Volume 2 - Thailand - Chiang Mai and other cities


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Dear friends,

I can't help starting this letter by thanking you – in relation to the last file and also the other ones – for the manifestations of good reception, with sweet and gratifying words that were directed to me. I feel very grateful indeed.

Yes, this is the gift I made a suspense about in the Christmas message!

I must tell you that each theme from my works is defined when I am conquered by it. We flirt, undecided about reciprocal acceptance and then there comes the courtship – which occurs during research – until I fall in love, totally seduced by the found material. Oh, the music, always key, of course, once I'm moved by it.

In this work I am sending to you now, it was different. There was no empathy between us and when I began to cogitate on this choice, the music was a reason for me to quit at once - its melodic lines were not conceived to reach Western sensibility.

However, I guess there must have been a kind of "point of honor" for the theme to be chosen because it was even appearing to me in dreams!

My references about Bangkok – only my "colleagues" will remember – haven't gone beyond the erotic craziness that "Emmanuelle" has experienced over there. Actually, Thailand is a country that reveres sexuality, so much it holds a temple devoted to the phallus.

Suddenly, to try a beginning, I found an artifice that prompted me to escape the traditional song... Done! It turned into a fulminating passion! So much that I have enlarged more and more the research, because at each new pursuit, new enchantments have made me enraptured.

Despite being forced to unfold the unmissable result in two volumes, I confess that, even being this quite a comprehensive work, I could only bring to you the "cream" of what there is in that magical country! Countless layers are just below – all possessing an immense power to conquer visitors, even if virtual.

For you to get an idea of how much I fell in love with this theme, the fantasy that comes to my mind at this moment is that I am saying goodbye, like a girlfriend would do to her loved one when he'd be about to "betray" her...

Fantasies aside, what I really wish is that at least some of the many moments of pleasure I have had while formatting Thailand may happen to you.

Always with my affection,

Delza

Viennese Blood


Presentation in 2 volumes:


PART 1:


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PART 2:


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Dear friends,

Always thanking you for the good reception you have been granting to my work, I want to tell you that, this time, even I was amazed by how much material about the capital of Austria it was possible to compile and bring for you to review or, if it’s the case, to know.

At the beginning of the research I understood that for twice I simply "touristed" around in Vienna without realizing how much there was to dazzle me there.

Confessing it was a pleasurable work, but also exhausting, I send to you the final formatting necessarily divided in two volumes.

With affection,

Delza

... in Paris...




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Dear friends,

 First of all I want to tell you that I've always been sure that I could not make the formatting of Paris because I wouldn't dare to elaborate a limited edition of its endless charms.

Nevertheless, the music - always the music - encouraged me to dare and I chose to pay penance for the omission of what would not be possible to bring to this work.

Actually, it was the interpretation of a very traditional French song what made me decide. Being Paris joyful as it is and all wrapped in a sensual atmosphere - whether under the heat of the sun or under the romantic silvery moon - only seduced by the malice of Madeleine Peyroux's singing I would decide for such boldness.

With great affection,
Delza


A fantasy inspired by great loves



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Dear friends,


I want to tell you that out of a simple conversation I highlighted the word “encounter” and that it eventually, by successive associations of ideas, became a fantasy.

After being taken by immeasurable emotion when hearing part of the soundtrack I had chosen, it became fairly easy to elect the images and to reveal the fantasy through a condensed text.

Well... the chosen location, as every happy dream, is recurring...

I hope you are pleased with it, too, because it is with immense affection that I send you the result of this reverie's  formatting.

Delza

Bosnia and Herzegovina



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Dear friends,

Incited by a special virtual friend - Jorge de Menezes Vasconcelos - to broaden myself  to new musical expressions other than those from the universe we usually are surrounded by - Western Europe and Americas - I was outstandingly enchanted with two songs by remarkable and famous composers of the Balkans. It was their talent that led me to research about the place where they were born, what eventually gave rise to this formatting that I now bring to you.

Always with my affection,
Delza

Summertime in Venice

... un solo giorno...



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Dear friends,

Only a desire to share Beauty...

Always with my grateful affection,

Delza

Coimbra, Portugal



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Coimbra.

Yes, Coimbra.

Although a granddaughter of a Lisboan grandmother and having one of my dearest virtual friends living and loving the city of Porto, I chose Coimbra.

It was so because in my heart Portugal is only one, and for having always admired the traditions of the University of Coimbra, I could not resist the temptation to format that city.

To research the immeasurable treasure that its Library is gave me a kind of devotion by so much beauty, art and culture it shelters.

I hope you enjoy "my" Coimbra.

With the ever affection to you all, dear friends,
Delza

Saint Petersburg, the Russia of Tsars - reedition



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Dear friends,

Having already reformatted some of the very low resolution photographs of the file "Russia", and once our mail services now admit much heavier attached files, I thought I could not fail to update the "comrade" of that one called Russia - the file "Saint Petersburg".

It happened that I could not simply reformat it -  I was getting excited and a whole new work appeared, totally redesigned and even deserving a new name: Saint Petersburg, the Russia of the Tsars. I hope you enjoy it.

Always with my affection,
Delza

Budapest - Volume 3 of 3



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My dear friends,
To you my third degree passion or... Budapest - third volume of 3.
Always with care,
Delza

Budapest - volume two of 3



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My always dear friends,

To avoid the risk of being criticized for excessive adjectives qualifying Budapest, I write:

Budapest – second volume, to you.

With special care,
Delza

Dubai

Presentation in 2 volumes:

Dubai 1

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Dubai 2

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