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Amsterdam Bans Tours of Red-Light District
Posted on 03/26/2019, 4:15 PM
As much as it's known for picturesque canals and paintings by Dutch masters on display at the Rijksmuseum and elsewhere, Amsterdam has also gained a reputation as a haven for legal marijuana and prostitution. Neither of those is leaving the city anytime soon, but authorities are cracking down on tourist lookie-loos checking out the famous red-light district, where sex shops and sex workers do th...
Floating Art Museum Soon to Open in Paris
Posted on 03/13/2019, 5:00 PM
Paris, which has made popular museums out of train stations, royal palaces, and modernist tangles of exposed infrastructure, is innovating yet again: The city is putting a museum on the river Seine. Billed as the world's "first floating urban art center," Fluctuart is a three-level, bargelike structure located at the foot of the Invalides bridge, facing the Grand Palais in the heart of the city....
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Don’t Overlook The Literary Life of Dublin, Writes Arthur Frommer
Posted on 02/12/2019, 12:00 AM
In forecasts of the most popular travel destinations for 2019, Ireland almost always appears. Americans are apparently eager to roam the roadways of rural Ireland and its quaint villages, castles, and other ancient sights. Less visited is the city of Dublin. But that may change with the popularity of a best-selling book called Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Tóibín, about the literary...
In Nevada, a School for Stolen Native American Kids Will Be a Museum
Posted on 02/11/2019, 12:00 AM
Starting in the late 19th century, the U.S. government forced tens of thousands of Native American children to leave home and attend boarding schools with the goal of assimilating students into the dominant Euro-American culture. While providing a basic education, the schools also often required Native attendees to do manual labor and forbade them from speaking their languages, carrying out cultu...
You Can Throw Your Own Parade in New Orleans! Here's How
Posted on 02/06/2019, 12:00 PM
You don’t have to be the king of a Mardi Gras club to throw your own parade and march through the streets of New Orleans. But if you do, you’ll certainly feel like one. While it's a little-known fact, it’s actually quite simple to throw your very own second line parade in New Orleans, legally and complete with police escort and marching band. All you need to do is follow a few simple steps ahead...
Can the Taj Mahal Be Saved? New Measures To Preserve India's Wonder
Posted on 01/25/2019, 2:00 PM
The Taj Mahal remains the most convincing argument that Agra, the northern Indian city where the marble mausoleum stands, was once something like a paradise. Gazing at Shah Jahan's show-stopping tribute to his deceased wife, you can believe—even amid the hordes of tourists—that Agra was renowned for its elegance and beauty during the city's Mughal Empire heyday, when longboats floated down the Yam...
Museum of The Dog Learns New Tricks As It Returns to NYC
Posted on 01/10/2019, 1:00 PM
After being in Missouri for 32 years, the AKC Museum of the Dog is a getting a new leash on life. The American Kennel Club’s repository of canine-related art will now be dog housed at the club’s headquarters at 101 Park Ave. in Midtown Manhattan, two blocks south of Grand Central Station. This is actually a homecoming for the museum, which originally opened in New York City in 1982...
After a Long Period Without New Attractions, New York City Gets a Giant One
Posted on 01/10/2019, 2:00 AM
Ask the average American to compile a list of the major attractions in New York City and they will probably respond, a bit wearily, with the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, United Nations, Times Square, Greenwich Village, and Chinatown. But starting in just a few short months, they will be able to cite a gigantic new one as large and impressive as any of those: Hudson Yards. Huds...
Pauline Frommer: Come Travel with Me in Vietnam this February
Posted on 12/11/2018, 12:00 AM
Every other year, I host a trip for listeners of the Frommer's radio shows and the readers of our guides. And these tours are, I must say, very special experiences. There's nothing like hitting the road with Frommer's fans. They're an intelligent, gregarious, open-hearted bunch, people who are deeply enamored with travel, and who have been broadened by their own wanderings. I'm also quite caref...
Meet UNESCO's New Cultural Heritage Inductees: Reggae, French Perfume, and More
Posted on 12/05/2018, 12:00 AM
Reggae music from Jamaica, the Irish sport of hurling, Polish Nativity scenes, Korean wrestling, and about three dozen more arts, crafts, folk dances, foods, and festivals are the latest global traditions added to UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. (Pity the arts and tourism officials currently trying to squeeze that mouthful into quick after-dinner speec...
