History

Timeless impressions sailing to discover Upper Egypt, from Luxor to Abu Simbel

In 1928, a large airship, the Graf Zeppelin, made history by flying over the Atlantic Ocean from the USA to Germany. It was on this flight that the first air stowaway in history, Clarence Terhune, was discovered.

Discover Saudi Arabia, a destination as unknown as it is fascinating, full of history and capable of surprising even the most seasoned traveler.

We travel to Venice in the footsteps of the "palazzi" of the Grand Canal and Peggy Guggenheim, one of the most important art collectors in history, who spent her last years in the city of canals.

If there is a name that goes hand in hand with Lisbon, it is that of the writer Fernando Pessoa. From his hand, we walk and discover some of his favorite places in this fascinating city.

Ida Laura Pfeiffer was a 19th-century Austrian housewife who, at the age of 45, decided to hang up her apron, sell her property in Vienna, and travel the world.

Discover the story of Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine, a naturalist and explorer from Victorian England, who traveled the world for 50 years, collecting butterflies in sixty different countries.

In 1873, Jules Verne published "Around the World in 80 Days". In 1889, Nellie Bly, an intrepid 26-year-old reporter, managed to emulate Phileas Fogg's feat, but in only 72 days.

Discover the story of botanist Jeanne Baret, who pretended to be a man in 1765 in order to embark on the first French expedition to circumnavigate the globe, becoming the first woman to do so.

Discover the story of Lady Evelyn Herbert, the first and only woman to enter, at the age of 21, the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun when it was discovered by Howard Carter in November 1922.

Radhika Hettiarachchi is an activist, and in 2012, she started a project to give a voice to hundreds of women who lost their children in the civil war that ravaged Sri Lanka. We spoke with her in Colombo, her hometown.