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Things you may not know about London’s Piccadilly Line
As you probably know, London’s Piccadilly Line is the dark blue underground line. It is just over 100 years old, its first version only went from Hammersmith to Finsbury Park, now it starts from Cockfosters in the north and goes to Heathrow airport or to Uxbridge, another west branch.
The two branches split in Acton Town. Only a third of the trains end up at Uxbridge, two thirds going to Heathrow. London’s Piccadilly Line is the line with the most stations.
It also has several original Art Deco stations and for this reason they are protected.
Covent Garden station on Piccadilly is said to have the ghost of a man in evening dress walking on the platforms.
Interesting facts about London’s Piccadilly Line
In central London London’s Piccadilly line travels in deep tunnels and in the suburbs becomes an outside line, in total it is 71km long
During rush hour there are 76 trains in operation, the 1973 trains with six carriages have almost all been replaced, the last remaining ones will disappear by the end of 2014.
The new trains always have 6 carriages and each has 38 seats. Train depots are located in Northfields and Cockfosters.
The Piccadilly Line carries over half a million passengers every weekday and over 176 million passengers annually
There are 7 ghost stations on London’s Piccadilly Line that can be glimpsed by passing the train. Osterley & Spring Grove between Osterley and Boston Manor, Down Street between Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, Brompton Road between Knightsbridge and South Kensington and York Road between Caledonian Road and King’s Cross.
The last station on Piccadilly, Heathrow Terminal 5 opened on March 27, 2008
It was one of the London Underground lines affected by the terrorist attack on July 7, 2005. The bomb went off on the first carriage between King’s Cross station and Russell Square
It will open on Oct 22nd this year. The new Munch Museum in Oslo will have 11 exhibition halls, concert and conferences spaces, a panoramic terrace, bars and restaurants, as well as a large bookshop and various lounge areas, where you can take a break or have a chat. The new Oslo museum, is aiming to become a dynamic cultural centre. The new buildings if five times larger than the previous one.
The project has been the target of harsh criticism related, above all, to the aesthetics of the building, a structure which, according to many, would be cold and clumsy. Beyond the aesthetic aspects, it is worth underlining the architects’ commitment and attention to sustainability issues.
Obviously, the figure of the artist Edvard Munch , from which it takes its name, will be told and enhanced through different approaches and multiple points of view. The new museum will also present the work of other Norwegian artists in a more comprehensive way, says the press release.
The new Munch Museum is being financed by the Oslo City Council and will be located in the city centre, not far from the National Museum of Art .
The large exhibition program designed to enhance the immense heritage museum consisting of over 26. 000 works of art, including paintings, sketches, graphics, drawings and sculptures made by Munch himself, as well as an infinity of his personal items, letters and photographs.
New acquisitions will support and enrich both the permanent exhibition and new temporary exhibitions, which will thus remain open to the public throughout the year. The permanent exhibition presents a representative selection from the approximately 60 works of art related to Munch’s early artistic attempts.
After the opening, we will not only see a collection exhibited by themes in the sections “Infinite”, “Up close”, “Huge”, “Stenersen” and “All is life “. There will also be the work of contemporary artists compared with Munch, starting with the exhibition “ Tracy Emin / Edvard Munch. The solitude of the spirit “.
- Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.
- Geir Wetby, Gro Fraas (Actors)
- Peter Watkins (Director)
- English (Subtitle)
- Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
- Hardcover Book
- English (Publication Language)
- 224 Pages - 04/11/2019 (Publication Date) - Thames and Hudson Ltd (Publisher)
Every so often you hear of a wonderful place for the first time and you wonder how you had never heard of it before. Today we are talking of a medieval village found near Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in Northern Italy.
The Medieval Village of Dozza
In fact, the walls of the buildings and situations are completely covered with artistic work and frescoes. We are talking about an open-air museum, where we can admire drawings, colours and paintings that are quite magical.
If you are near Bologna go and see Dozza
It has a beautiful historic centre and a castle called Rocca Sforzesca with beautiful halls. There is also a beautiful church and the food is to die for. Dozza also hosts a couple of food festivals every year, food is very important here. ior54kl mrior587io
Every two years in September there is a festival when artists paint the walls of the houses. The Biennale del Muro Dipinto.is the most important event in Dozza. In four days of September, famous national and international artists perform permanent works on the walls of the houses of the small town, giving it the peculiar characteristic of an open-air art gallery. Dozza has been inhabited for thousands of years, it was a Celtic village before the arrivals of the Romans.
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