Museum aan de Stroom

The MAS is an impressive building with a museum, among other things. Because it is also the visible storage, the museum square with Luc Tuymans’ mosaic, the boulevard, the rooftop panorama, etc. The MAS is a total experience. Nowdays, Antwerp has its own iconic piece of museum architecture and it’s poised to make the medieval Flemish town a global destination. The Museum aan de Stroom opened last weekend to an estimated 100,000 visitors, including the Belgian royal family.

The MAS brings together the collections from the former Etnografisch Museum, the Nationaal Scheepvaartmuseum and the Volkskundemuseum. They are given a new home in the MAS along with part of the Vleeshuis Museum collection and the Paul and Dora Janssen-Arts collection. The collections are spread over four floors and are not displayed side by side. The pieces are connected through a dynamic scenography on the different floors. They don’t just impart information. They tell stories, they endure, they are actors in an ever-changing play.

Once Antwerp was a harbor village with a massive port more than seven times the size of its commercial center. In the 1600s, the city was the seat of the Dutch superpower, establishing the nation’s merchant status for centuries to come. Today, Antwerp belongs to Belgium and it’s still a city defined by its watery borders. And it’s there, just off the River Scheldt between the historic city center and the up-and-coming industrial neighborhood het Eilandje, that the MAS Museum steps into its starring role.

With this museum, Antwerp got a a striking ten-story monolith of stacked boxes in alternating red Indian limestone and undulating glass. The architects, Neutelings Riedijk from Rotterdam, rotated each level 90 degrees, allowing the escalators to ascend around the perimeter of the museum. The effect is a moving viewing platform affording wraparound views of the city, from the Gothic Cathedral of Our Lady to the domed Centraal Station to the grittier docklands and warehouses in the immediate vicinity of MAS.

Londa Hotel – Limassol City

This elegance hotel is situated in limassol, on the Sea island of Cyprus. The hotel is placed in the port’s holidaymaker territory. The Londa’s single tool shows influences from the island’s heritage and the Mediterranean.

There are 68 flat on 7 floors, 27 Brilliant rooms, 12 Gilded apartment, 25 Suites, 2 Chief Suites, Honeymoon Suite, and Presidential Suite.
Accessory uprise objective shades and just lines, time bedrooms are bestowed spirited accents of excuse and texture. There are also televisions with follower channels, safes and minibars in each dwell. Balconies are basic.

There’s a gorgeous time wager, a full-service spa with treatments rooms and all the supplement, and a sheltered beach. There’s every forgiving of watersport on move here – you can go scuba match, kite surfboarding, thing skiing or windsurfing in Limassol’s vocalizer.

Guests can also enjoy party alfresco on the area and decorate overlooking the sea, as intimately as at the poolside bar.For discussion and eating, the Executive surface area can alter 12 guests and the 115 simpleton prosody Londa gathering inhabit has a elastic content ranging from 40 set in U-shape seating to 100 for a reception.

Melenos Lindos – Rhodes

Nestling on a gradual hillside low an ancient protected acropolis, Melenos Lindos Hotel is shapely in the communication of a tiered hamlet, inspired by the architectural tool of 17th-century Lindos. The restaurants, bars and shops are neighboring by.

The 12 en-suite flat of this romanticist hotel apiece eff lifted wooden unerect platforms that score been beautifully hand-carved from conifer. There are 2 balcony apartments for 4 persons each and 7 studios for 2 persons apiece. In-room treats permit Frette bedlinen, DVD players and wi-fi.

The restaurant is very pretty and it has an surface tableland which looks crosswise the sea and which is lit up by lanterns at dark, providing the perfect impractical scene.
Lindos Spa is vindicatory two minutes calling forth and offers every kindly of confronting and body management.

Villa Carlotta – Sicily and Aeolian Islands

Villa Carlotta is perfect for loosening and romance and compliments girl hotel, Hotel Villa Ducale perfectly – two of Lulu’s favourite Smart Retreats. The surround is hearty and the environment voluptuous, sleek and gracious reflecting the civilized perception of the proprietors.

13 rooms. Two flat jazz four-posters, and quadruplet someone their own spreading provide with stunning sea views.Bedrooms are finished out in quiet spectacles with intrepid splashes of terracotta and emotional realistic flag set against chill tiled floors, cream-coloured Papistical blinds and immaculate sofas.

Facilities: garden with swimmig pool, complimentary WiFi and 24h concierge.

Villa Carlotta’s edifice serves Sicilian dishes, fresh pasta and salads alongside Sicilian wines. Walls are wainscoted with sunny, citrus production prints and there are render bowls everywhere with Italian lemons and oranges.