With over half a million people still calling Malaga home, it’s population not only makes it the sixth largest city in Spain, and the largest southernmost city of Europe, but it is more importantly it’s continued inhabitation which is significant, as it makes Malaga one of the oldest cities in the world with a history spanning 2,800 years. Founded around 770 BCE by the Phoenicians thanks to it’s position on the Costa del Sol on the northern side of the Mediterranean Sea, the port city has changed numerous hands as …

Originally constructed between the 3rd and 4th centuries of the Early Roman Age as a commercial, legal, and artistic centre, the Basilica derives its name from the large public square it was constructed beneath.
The Stoa Basilica stood on the First Hill of Constantinople, and was said to contain gardens enclosed by a colonnade that faced the Hagia Sophia, before later being converted into a cistern – reportedly requiring the manpower of some 7000 slaves. This allowed for the buildings of the First Hill – including the Topkapi Palace – to …

“I’m from the T- Dot-Oh… Rep it everywhere I go… Everybody from the cold… this is where we’re calling home…”
For the longest time, I wanted Toronto to have a hip hop track like Jay-Z’s ‘New York State of Mind’ or Kanye’s ‘Homecoming’ — something that showed the same love for this city that they did for theirs. I knew that love was out there, and I knew we have a strong and vibrant, if underreported, hip hop community, so I was hopeful it would come around someday. Late 2010 was …

In what now seems like an intended tour of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, instead of simply a Mediterranean cruise we were tagging along on, we managed to coordinate a trip out to our sixth Site of the trip, the Medieval fortress of the Nasrid dynasty. Literally meaning “the red one,” the Alhambra is a complex located in Granada, Spain that begun construction in 1238 CE by Muhammad I. Al-Ahmar of the Granada Emirate in al-Andalus.
While the exterior was left plain and austere, successive Emirs oversaw expansions and improvements upon the …

For this New York Fashion Week, Nicole and Michael Colovos brought a Fall Winter Collection to the runway for Helmut Lange that was inspired by HBO series Game of Thrones.
Apparently the television show injected a few ‘welcome details’ into the usual Helmut Lange look – the warm shade of red you see lifted from the Lannister colours, some prints that are reminiscent of the heart trees and the earth, and ‘fur’ and sheepskin that echo the outerwear of the Northmen and the Night’s Watch. (I think they may be aiming at dragonskin above.) …

An ancient port city that has known a history of invasion – Greeks, Phoenicians, Byzantines, Romans, Genoese, and even the Spanish – thanks to its position on the southern end of Sardinia. Old fortifications, churches, and monuments dating back to the medieval era can be found in the Castle (Castello) district – including the prominent 13th century Elephant Tower that still stands guard over the old city.

Cagliari in present days is seat of the Primate Roman Catholic archdiocese of Sardinia, and the University of Cagliari, and an important cultural, educational, …

During our visit to Istanbul this past November, we had the opportunity to visit one of the oldest mosques in the city.
The video’s about three and a half minutes long, and gives you an idea of what the interior of the Blue Mosque looks like, and the impression it left on Nicole. If you’re interested in what the last of the great imperial mosques erected by the Ottomans looks like, and the sheer magnitude of that undertaking given it was built over five hundred years ago, it’s definitely worth a …

Located near the northeastern corner of Sicily by the Strait of Messina, the fourth port of call during our cruise upon the Vision of the Seas was the port town of Messina.

And while it may seem like a recently built town – thanks to their reconstruction after an earthquake – Messina has a long history having once served as the wintering place for Richard the Lionheart during the Crusades, and even as the setting for Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’

In recent years it secured its place in pop culture …

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Thanks to College Humor for bringing us yet another great TV inspired 8-bit RPG.
Still working our way through Breaking Bad, but have to say it’s hard to remember Bryan Cranston was even on Malcolm in the Middle. So good as Walter White.

The design of this mosque must be accredited to the culmination of over two centuries worth of Ottoman mosque and Byzantine church architecture. Merging elements from the neighboring Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic design it is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period with construction being completed in June 1616.
However some of the glass panes used within the mosque for the dome windows were received as a gift from the Signoria of Venice. And in present day all of the coloured glass has been replaced by …