1. A new hotel in Rome designed by Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me By Your Name
The Palazzo Talìa is 26 rooms and the Challengers director designed its public spaces and one of its suites. Book it here. Found via Will O’Connor on X.
2. Bulgarian beach bar sarcophagus turns out to be genuine Roman artefact
An ancient sarcophagus dating back to the Roman era was discovered on a beach and used as a bar at a Black Sea resort near Varna.
Following its discovery, archaeologists from the Regional History Museum in Varna examined the ancient artefact, identifying its rich ornamentation as part of the “garland sarcophagi” from Roman times.
The case has sparked a broader conversation around the preservation of cultural heritage in Bulgaria and the need to protect and properly store archaeological treasures.
But a comment in the news article got me thinking: “Better it was being used and was in the open for everyone to enjoy. I have been in the store rooms of the archeology museum in Naples Italy and what they have on display is not even 2 percent of their collection”.
Found here.
3. This bookshop in Tuscany
The Libreria Sopra la Penna in Lucignana.
4. The Hermits of Karoulia of Mount Athos
Mount Athos, located on a Greek peninsula in the Aegean Sea, is home to one of the oldest surviving monastic community on Earth. The mountain has been inhabited since ancient times and is known for its nearly 1,800-year continuous Christian presence.
Found on Amusing Planet.
5. Live on an uninhabited Scottish island for £80,000
A cache of lighthouse buildings is for sale in Orkney’s isle of Copinsay. It’s believed that the last residents left the island in 1958, after which the RSPB acquired the island and its sister, Horse of Copinsay, in 1978, to use as a bird reserve. The island’s lighthouse dates from 1915. It belongs to the Northern Lighthouse Board and is operated remotely from Edinburgh.
Here’s the catch: the lighthouse is not included in the sale via K Allan Properties. However, its ancillary buildings, which include a 7-bedroom cottage and three outbuildings, are presented as ‘an unparalleled lifestyle’ opportunity and renovation project.
More found on The Spaces.
6. Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland
Found on Tumblr.
7. The Pink Guggenheim Museum that never was:
Reading this article, it is interesting to know that the Guggenheim was not always the bright white color with which we can observe it today, the original color used to be beige, and after the addition of the building that was made in 1992 The city’s Landmarks Commission agreed to change the color of the façade.
David Romero works alongside the FLW Foundation to bring some to life some of the 600 buildings that Frank Lloyd Wright never built. But he also has fun imagining what the building would be like if Wright had decided to finish it in one of the other colors he studied, such as pink:
More on Hooked on the Past.
8. These lovely sketches by Jeanne Lanvin from 1929
Found in the French National Archives.
9. The Name of Things You Probably Didn’t Know
Found on English in General via Swiss Miss
10. The 1985 movie Clue was released with three completely different endings. Each screening would randomly show one.
The home video release of the movie contained all three endings. More found on Wikipedia.
11. The Motormat, a Los Angeles drive-in where the food was sent out on conveyor belts right to your car, 1948
Found on Vintage Everyday.
12. How two families escaped East Germany in a home made hot air balloon
In 1979, two families escaped East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon. They flew for 28 minutes at −8 °C (18 °F) with no shelter as the gondola was just a clothesline railing. They landed just 10km (6.2 mi) from the border. The escape was planned out over 1 and 1/2 years and took 3 attempts.
Read about the escape on Wikipedia.
