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Paris, City of Culture and Exhibitions
Nowadays, Paris has many nicknames such as the City of Light, the Capital of Fashion and Design, the Capital of Gastronomy or of the Art of Living. All these references actually tend to reduce Paris to a flashy, glittery city, which limits to the Champs-Elysées and to the annual shows […]
Vitis vinifera and antique miscellanies…
Present in all cultures since very remote times, the vine – or vitis vinifera – has always been closely linked to the history and life of humanity. Its fruit, the grape, was first consumed as food by the Paleolithic societies living on the shores of the Mediterranean, before being used […]
Antique Wineyards Tradition
Autumn has arrived… leaves change color and fall off the trees… it is the time of the harvest, the grape harvest for the making of wine… Let me therefore present you a vessel and an object related to this topic: A jug-shaped vessel with a Dionysiac scene First an olpe […]
