The ultimate ‘Game of Thrones’ getaway Daily Times(PK)
Hotel stays don’t get much more heavenly than this. A former 15th-century monastery in Croatia has been stunningly transformed into a beautiful boutique property reminiscent of a Game of Thrones set.
Guests can enjoy ‘unique suites filled with rare pieces of art’, relax in an ‘ancient medicinal garden’ with over 80 species of plants and ‘eat delicious local wine and food, created by world-class chefs’. There are also spell-binding coastal views, because the property sits right next to the glittering Adriatic Sea on Lopud island, just seven miles from Dubrovnik.
The hotel’s origins can be traced to the year 1483. Back then it was a monastery for Franciscan monks called Our Lady of the Cave.
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Museo Nacional Thyssen‐Bornemisza features German Expressionist paintings
George Grosz, Metrópolis, 1916-1917 (detail). Oil on canvas, 100 x 102 cm. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
MADRID
.- When in 1961 Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen‐Bornemisza acquired Young Couple by Emil Nolde he initiated a change of direction in the Thyssen familys collecting activities. While his father Henrich Thyssen had assembled a remarkable collection of Old Masters during the interwar period, between the 1960s and 1990s Hans Heinrich would be extremely active as a collector of the principal 20th‐century art movements, among which German Expressionism would occupy a pre‐eminent place.
In 1993 the Spanish State acquired most of the Thyssen collection and the Museo Nacional Thyssen‐Bornemisza thus came to house a significant representation of German Expressionism, a movement barely represented in Spanish collections. For the first time in decades the present exhibition, German Exp