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Swiss artist sculpts sprawling model castle on dried river bank

August 15, 2022297 Views

Swiss artist Francois Monthoux's annual project to build clay sculptures on the banks of Switzerland's Toleure river has sprawled into a captivating castle complex this year as the drought afflicting Europe allows him to extend his dream world. Monthoux began this year's project with modest ambitions six weeks ago but the drought allowed him to build an entire city of spires. Visitors look at the work called "Monthoux castle" by land art artist Francois Monthoux, which he made out of clay retrieved from the dried bed of Le Toleure river due to ongoing drought, in Saubraz, Switzerland, August 12, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Now he has mixed feelings: he wants it to rain, but is sad at the thought of his dream world disappearing when it does. "I imagine the life of the people ...

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Italy’s Lake Garda shrinks to near-historic low amid drought

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August 14, 2022226 Views

Italy’s worst drought in decades has reduced Lake Garda, the country’s largest lake, to near its lowest level ever recorded, exposing swaths of previously underwater rocks and warming the water to temperatures that approach the average in the Caribbean Sea. Tourists flocking to the popular northern lake Friday for the start of Italy’s key summer long weekend found a vastly different landscape than in past years. An expansive stretch of bleached rock extended far from the normal shoreline, ringing the southern Sirmione Peninsula with a yellow halo between the green hues of the water and the trees on the shore. People sunbath on the peninsula of Sirmione, on Garda lake, Italy, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) “We came last year, we liked it, and we came back this y...

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Drought in England, fires rage in France as heatwave persists

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August 13, 2022624 Views

Firefighters from across Europe came to France's rescue on Friday to battle a massive wildfire, while fire also raged in Portugal and parts of England faced a severe drought, as successive heatwaves renewed the focus on climate change risks. Much of Europe has faced weeks of baking temperatures that have also depleted water levels of the Rhine River in Germany and seen the source of Britain's River Thames dry up further downstream than in previous years. A firefighting aircraft drops flame retardant to extinguish a wildfire near Hostens, as wildfires continue to spread in the Gironde region of southwestern France, in this handout photograph released on August 12, 2022. Courtesy SDIS 33/Handout via REUTERS High temperatures and a worsening drought brought a high risk of new fires...

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Brussels’ flower carpet blooms despite heatwave

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August 13, 2022883 Views

The creators of Brussels' vast flower carpet, unfurled every two years in front of city hall, are opting for more heat-resistant blooms and the use of pot plants for the first time in the art project's 50-year history to adapt to Europe's heatwave. Returning to the Belgian capital's opulent Grand Place after a COVID-imposed absence, this year's design recalls the first carpet laid out in 1971 which was inspired by Arabesque shapes. A view shows a 1,680 square meters flower carpet made with Belgian begonias, dahlias, grasses, barks and chrysanthemums at Brussels Grand Place, Belgium, August 12, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron With the installation expected to endure four days of temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), the designers have had to swap many begonias ...

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Buried historical sites spring out of dried reservoirs in Spain

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August 11, 2022464 Views

A flock of sheep shelter from the midday sun under the gothic arches of a medieval bridge flooded in 1956 to create the Cijara reservoir in central Spain, but now fully exposed as the reservoir is 84% empty after a severe drought. In Andalusia, one of Europe's hottest and driest regions, paddle-boats and waterslides lie abandoned on the cracked bed of Vinuela reservoir, remnants of a rental business gone with the water, now at a critical level of 13%. The remains of the Royal Site of La Isabela bathhouse emerge from the low waters of the Buendia reservoir, in Sacedon, Spain, August 7, 2022 .REUTERS/Susana Vera A nearby restaurant fears a similar fate. "The situation is quite dramatic in the sense that it's been several years without rain and we're hitting rock bottom," said ow...

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London’s Horniman Museum to return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

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August 8, 2022627 Views

London's Horniman Museum said on Sunday it would return 72 artefacts, including 12 brass plaques known as Benin Bronzes, looted from Benin City by British soldiers in 1897 to the Nigerian government. Created from brass and bronze in the once mighty Kingdom of Benin in what is now southwestern Nigeria from at least the 16th century onwards, the Benin Bronzes are among Africa's most culturally significant artefacts. A square bronze pendant or ornament, one of the objects that London's Horniman Museum says was looted from Benin City by British soldiers in 1897 and will be returned to Nigeria's government, is pictured in this undated handout image. Horniman Museum and Gardens/Handout via REUTERS They were seized, along with thousands of other items, in a British military incursion, a...

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‘Living Sculpture’ Daniel Lismore brings wearable art to London

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August 7, 2022750 Views

British artist Daniel Lismore's monumental pieces of "wearable art" featuring everything from rubbish to elaborate headgear studded with jewels took centre stage at London's Victoria and Albert Museum on Friday. Guests were invited to closely inspect the nearly 2-metre (6-foot, 4-inch) tall pieces, one of which was worn by Lismore, who calls himself "a living sculpture". British multidisciplinary artist Daniel Lismore wears one of his sculptural artwork creations next to other mannequins which form part of the "Fashion in Motion: Daniel Lismore" exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Britain, August 5, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville "I'm not a performance artist or a drag queen, I just live as art," he said in an interview. The pieces -- featuring brightly colour...

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Huge crowds watch Amsterdam Pride’s canal parade celebration

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August 6, 2022405 Views

Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined Amsterdam’s historic canals Saturday to celebrate Canal Parade, a flotilla of 80 brightly decorated boats packed with partying and singing people waving rainbow flags, balloons and umbrellas. Thousands of people lined canals in the Dutch capital to watch the colorful spectacle of the Pride Canal Parade return for the 25th edition after the last two events were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) The boats representing rights groups, bars, clothing brands and even the Dutch military made their way slowly through the waterways in a resumption of the hugely popular LGBTQ Pride event after two years canceled amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are looking forward to a s...

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New Pompeii finds highlight middle-class life in doomed city

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August 6, 2022655 Views

A trunk with its lid left open. A wooden dishware closet, its shelves caved in. Three-legged accent tables topped by decorative bowls. These latest discoveries by archaeologists are enriching knowledge about middle-class lives in Pompeii before Mount Vesuvius’ furious eruption buried the ancient Roman city in volcanic debris. Pompeii’s archaeological park, one of Italy’s top tourist attractions, announced the recent finds on Saturday. Its director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, said the excavation of rooms in a “domus,” or home, first unearthed in 2018 had revealed precious details about the domestic environment of ordinary citizens of the city, which was destroyed in 79 A.D. A picture provide by the Pompeii Archeological site press office, showing the latest discoveries in the ancient city ...

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Munich’s Oktoberfest from Sep 17 without any restrictions

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August 5, 2022199 Views

Germany’s annual Oktoberfest festival is finally on again for this fall, following a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the famous Bavarian beer festival said Thursday. “The Wiesn will take place,” Clemens Baumgaertner told reporters in Munich using the locals’ Bavarian colloquialism for the Oktoberfest which is referring to the big lawn, or Wiese, where the boozy celebrations are taking place. He said said the popular beer festival in the Bavarian capital will be held without any pandemic restrictions from Sept. 17 to Oct. 3 — Germany’s national day. FILE PHOTO: A waitress carries beer mugs at the Hofbraeuhausbeer tent in Munich, Germany. Oktoberfest is Germany's and the world largest beer fair. About six million people attend the sixteen-day festival d...