Italy

Hi! Welcome! Let's hope I can surprise you one more time... Take a peek to this image. This natural wonder has attracted large crowds of curious tourists for almost two hundred years now, but its significance as a cultural and perhaps religious site dates back to before recorded history of life on the beautifull island of Capri. To get to the cave, you must catch a speed boat from the Marina Grande which then transfers you to small canoe-like crafts that will fit into the grotto's narrow opening.
And you are already asking yourself what is the name of this cave? The answer is Grotta Azzurra, meaning blue cave.
Depending on the time of day, the cavern inside glows a brilliant or subdued dark blue color. Some tourists wonder if they had rigged the cave to appear blue, but in fact the color is a natural phenomenon of light that is refracted from the bluish water outside the small underwater portals leading into the grotto. Because of the attraction's popularity, the wait outside the cave's entrance can be very long but inside there it is all worthy.

Then anyone can wonder where it can be found... And it is on Italy! Something about: Italy was a land of sociability of many known influent european civilizations, as greek and roman. It's capital Rome has been a global city historically important, overall focusing on ancient Rome and catholic church.
Italy it's not all about Rome, actually all in that country is a good reason for art. Every city is a source of inspiration, some examples are Florence, Venice, Turin and Milan. Culture and art has given influence to europe in most and also some part of the world. In Italy it has born different intelectual and artistic movements that spread around europe and rest of the world, such as Renaissance and Baroque style. The italian contribution to art and culture came from art works made by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and others.
Besides painture, sculpture and architecture, the contributions of science, literature and music are unquestionable. In science to stand out Gaileu Galilei, da Vinci.
In the area of music the classic becomes an expression of sounds. Instruments were invented in Italy such the piano and violin which made able to perform artistic forms or music such as syphony, concert and sonata. It has born the opera by Claudio Monteverdi in the Renaissance. Also there are other composers like Vivaldi in the Baroque age, classic for Rossini and romantic for Verdi, among others...
Now it's time to say good-bye. I hope you have fun, till my next post! =)

Venezuela

Hi! I'm glad to see you again! This time you caught me up in time. Let me show you something... Let me introduce you Hacha falls. Anyone can be mesmerized by a beautifull sight like this! Hacha Falls spills into Venezuela’s Canaima Lagoon as towering mesas called tepuis rise in the background. This area in southern Venezuela is home to Angel Falls, the world’s highest uninterrupted waterfall. Did you know the origin of the name Venezuela? Venezuela, in northern South America, was named for Italy's Venice by 15th-century European explorers who found native houses on stilts above Lake Maracaibo. Those constructions were similar to the houses in city of Veneza, then that region was called Venezuela (Small Veneza).
The contemporaneous culture evolution is derived of pre-hispanics, hispanics and africaans roots, consonant to the colonial period. The specific culture was made with an intense process of transculture. The richness in celebrations and traditions is product of fusion of native crowd, europeans and africaans which arrived over 500 years, and afterwards formed actual venezuelan society.
About the food... I like this part! Tasting venezuelan food is like submerging in a world of aromas and flavours wich describe a gastronomy of strong tastes and wonderfull colors. Venezuelan cookery uses ingredients like corn, manioc, banana, indian pepper, grains, tubercules, sugar cane and several meats. The most representative dishes are Pabellón Criollo, Arepa, Hallaca, and Cachapa.
Now the music. Their music is a mixture of rithms between salsa, merengue, calypso and also other south american. Joropo is a typical dance of Venezuela. The instruments most used are cuatro, harpa llanera and maracas.
The favourite sports are baseball, football, basquetball and boxe, by this order.
Well I got to rush to another country, I hope to see you soon. Goodbye =)

Intro

Hello! Right now I'm packing my personal luggage. Tomorrow it will be a big day! I´m going to make a small visit to several countries at random.
Well... You can't persuade me to tell where I am going or what to do, so you will have wait and see my next posts. But you can leave allways comments as you like. The only thing I can tell you at the moment is that I have the objectives to describe you some cultural and important information about each country and the basis of my selection is what I think it is interesting and also what gives a good perspective about it can be found there.
By the way... This is all fictitional because I can't travel, at least not so soon.
I hope to talk to you soon, see you later.