The Chapel Inside a Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2018
Santa Margarida is a freato-magmatic volcano located in the Spanish county of Garrotxa, in Catalonia. Some 11,500 years ago, the earth’s cru...
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Toxic Art: The Almaden Mercury Fountain
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2018
At the Joan Miró Foundation, a contemporary museum on Montjuïc hill in Barcelona, is a fascinatingly deadly piece of art—a fountain of mercu...
The Negro of Banyoles
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2018
It’s one thing to keep the mummified body of a thousand year old pharaoh or a monk in a glass case in a museum, and another to stuff the dea...
The Abandoned Canfranc Railway Station
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 7, 2017
Sitting at the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains on the Spanish side of the French-Spanish border is an immense railway station. Built wit...
Puzzling Gravestones
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2017
When Canadian doctor Samuel Bean lost his first two wives, Henrietta and Susanna, within 20 months of each other, he decided that the best w...
The Building That Was Built From Top to Bottom
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2017
At Plaza de Colón in Madrid, Spain, there is a twin building that is known locally as "El Enchufe" or "The Plug" for it ...
Elche, The City of Palm Trees
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 23, 2017
In the city of Elche, in Spain, there is a large grove of palm trees that’s the only one of its kind in Europe, and one of the largest palm ...
Casa Vicens: Gaudi’s First Building Opens To Public
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2017
More than 130 years after it was built, the first building designed by Barcelona’s famed architect Antoni Gaudi opens to the public for the ...
The Hanging Houses of Cuenca
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2017
In the Castile–La Mancha region of central Spain, the Júcar river has carved a deep gorge as it flows through the Iberian Peninsula. Along i...
Ecce Homo: The Botched Painting That Saved a Town
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2017
Eighty-three year old amateur artist Cecilia Giménez had nothing but good intentions when she turned her attention towards a deteriorating f...
