Jean Sibelius Voice of the northern epics

Once a wise and sensitive critic said:”The music of Sibelius Here is music that not only from a Finnish heart but also the soul of Finland”. Here is an art of intrinsic worth  and substance, , instead of virtuoso showmanship, brilliant technical exhibitionism and revolutionary experimentation. 

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Africa, the ancestral woman

Africa, remote history, everything points toward the fact that in this continent it started our long march to inhabit the planet and, likely, the universe. In this journey we go, so as the Africans enter the benefit of modernity with its transcendental history, that inhabits our guts.

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Africa Millennial Globalism

The 40% of the world population inhabits Africa; a region with the lowest average age whose youth dimension, transforms it into the inception of another actuality; by carrying within its heritage the origin of human evolution.

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A journey around the world

I have decided to title these lines Upstream, using the same as the Isaiah Berlin´s book title, for two basic motives: firstly, because like him, when confronted to the pieces of the sculptor Jesús Peraza I could not help but do the most terrible thing, I had to think out.

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Inuit

Known as the last frontier, its dazzling, shed-from-the-heavens Aurora Borealis, granted a mystical character to the majestic Alaskan lands; transforming them into a sacred place for natives who arrived many Moons ago.

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Rome in the cinema and the cinema in Rome

In any geographical point, the movies usually are the first window through which one gets to know the world. Who didn’t spend countless evenings between gunshots, explosions and chases, going through the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York?, Who was not amazed with the temples, mountains or streets of mystical Asian cities?

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La herencia del agua

The engineering capability existent today to move water, from one place to another, is a Roman heritage by excellence. Aqueducts, public baths, private thermae, fountains and artificial lakes; as were also the diverse channelings and containers of water, are the most notable structures of the Ancient Rome that still persist up to our days.

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Capilla Sixtina

The nine genesis scenes A work that overwhelms its visitors

To contextualize the work of controversial artist Michelangelo, which is recognized as the purest manifestation of divine power and its representatives on Earth; worth remembering that the Vatican, which protects this universal heritage, is the smallest country in the world. In just an area of 44 hectares, hosts some of the most important works of history and art.

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