The Day of Sant Jordi is celebrated every year on April 23 in the Spanish region of Catalonia with people exchanging books, red roses and the streets are filled with stalls selling books and roses.
The Kennedy-Mars Sittard is the oldest Kennedy march in the Netherlands. Almost 3.000 participants walked the route that ran through the Netherlands and Belgian Limburg.
New Yorkers don their most creative and colorful Easter bonnets and show them off in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in a tradition that has been going on since the 1870’s.
The traditional Fon Leb (fingernail dance), a classical northern Thai folk performance set a new Guinness World Record for the Largest Thai Dance with a total of 7,218 participants. The performance was held to commemorate the 729th anniversary of Chiang Mai’s founding serving as a vibrant expression of Thailand’s treasured cultural heritage.
These acts of self-flagellation are a feature of local religious ceremonies aimed at the expiation of past sins. The Catholic Church does not endorse this practice, viewing it as an extreme misapplication of religious belief.
The final show of the second day of Abu Dhabi Modest Fashion Week 2025 (14-16 April), organized by Think Fashion at St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, was attended by Turkish brand Imannoor
Designers Niqozza (Turkey), Sterling Perfumes x Aywa London (UAE x UK), Lanuuk (UK),
Cabochon (UAE) attended the second day of Abu Dhabi Modest Fashion Week 2025 (14-16 April), organized by Think Fashion at St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort.
Designers Leem (KSA), Arlina Ayou (Malaysia), Ashaalia (Australia) attended the third part of the second day of Abu Dhabi Modest Fashion Week 2025 (14-16 April), organized by Think Fashion at St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort.
Designers Les Atelier (Netherlands), Ayana Active (USA), North Arabia Couture (Nigeria), Marina (Turkey) attended the third runaway of the first day of Abu Dhabi Modest Fashion Week 2025 (14-16 April), organized by Think Fashion at St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort.
The first runaway of the first day of Abu Dhabi Modest Fashion Week 2025 (14-16 April), organized by Think Fashion at St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, was attended by Designers Haba (Qatar),Antonella Bravi (Italy), Afrik Abaya (Nigeria), Tug Fashion (Turkey), Bespoken Atelier (UAE)
The National Fashion, Clothing and Lifestyle Foundation (Iran) attended the fourth runaway of the first day of Abu Dhabi Modest Fashion Week 2025 (14-16 April), organized by Think Fashion at St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort.
A drone show lights up the sky over the National Parliament building on Pahela Baishakh beginning with the display of a bird flying out of a cage symbolizing freedom at Manik Mia Avenue.
Songkran, Thailand’s traditional New Year festival held from April 13–15 is one of the country’s most vibrant and joyful celebrations. It is best known for massive water fights in the streets symbolizing the washing away of bad luck, misfortunes and marking a fresh start for the year ahead.
Thousands of Bangladeshi people celebrate the first day of the Bengali New Year, known as Pohela Boishakh, with colorful rallies, and cultural programs featuring traditional dance and music. This Bengali year was introduced during the regime of Emperor Akbar to facilitate revenue collection in the 16th century. A new mode marks the traditional pageantry this time as the Bengali New Year is being celebrated today in Bangladesh with the iconic Mongal Shobhajatra replaced with Barshaboran Ananda Sobhajatra.
St. Petersburg Fashion Week is held in St. Petersburg from April 10 to 13. This is a unique fashion event that includes: shows of famous designers and new names in the fashion industry, opened by the Fashion Syndicate, street style, business and educational programs, brunches with bloggers and influencers, fashion tours, evening closed events.
The "Look Noo" is a hand made rocket originated from Thailand's Mon ethnic group as a way to honour deceased monks, by using a rocket to ignite a cremation fire. It develop into competition that held annually on Songkran festival in Pathum Thani. The rockets were made of wood, about a meter long, and were loaded with homemade explosives.
Initially, a cable that hangs slightly over head height directs them in their horizontal flight. Clashing the wooden castle at the end of the wire is the aim of the game.
Palm Sunday is a Catholic tradition signifies the triumphant entry of Jesus to Jerusalem, greeted with palm branches that are recognized as victory and triumph on numerous cultures. Palm Sunday marks the start of Holy Week, the most sacred week in the Christian calendar.
Each year, farms throughout the Netherlands pick a date to let their cows out into the pastures and announce it to the public so people can enjoy the cows sprinting towards the green pastures.
Unveiling event of the Mural “The Star of David” Edith Bruck by contemporary artist aleXsandro Palombo at the Fondazione Museo della Shoah in Rome, Italy on April 7, 2025.
This mural, dedicated to the memory of the Shoah and the fight against anti-Semitism, was defaced last January in Milan close to Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today the mural finds a new home at the Fondazione Museo della Shoah in Rome.
Historic areas are undergoing extensive renovations to restore the city's architectural heritage with some critics viewing the projects as a reflection of the government's nationalistic agenda.
Markets across the Muslim world witness huge shopping rush in preparation for Eid-Al-Fitr, a celebration that marks the end of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Teotihuacan is an archaeological site in the Valley of Mexico, developed from 100 BC until its abandonment between the 5th and 6th centuries. The site was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. It is one of the most visited archaeological sites in Mexico.
The Centre Pompidou Malaga celebrates its 10th anniversary with the opening of its new exhibition “Vassily Kandinsky: A Pioneer of Abstract Art”; a retrospective showcasing the artist's career through his modern artworks. The exhibition will be open to the public from March 28 to September 7, 2025.
UNAM is a public university in Mexico City. A portion of UNAM's main campus (Ciudad Universitaria) was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2007.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo House-Studio Museum is a 3 house-studios in San Ángel, Mexico City, designed by architect Juan O'Gorman, a friend of Diego Rivera, and completed in 1932. Is was one of the first “functionalist” buildings in Latin America.
Official Partner of offsite Encounters, Swire Properties holds two large-scale projects Monster Chetwynd’s Lanternfly Ballet and The Jewel System as part of the Encounters sector - an offsite installation that extends from the Art Basel 2025. The Jewel System by Sara Shakeel presents two installations at Taikoo Place with The Jewel System reinterpreting the solar system using traditional Pakistani embroidery and Genesis in Jewels exploring existence through light, crystals and cosmic darkness. Monster Chetwynd’s Lanternfly Ballet brings a fantastical site-specific work and nature-inspired dance performance to Pacific Place as the exclusive offsite project of Art Basel Hong Kong’s Encounters.
The Casa Azul (Blue House) is the birthplace of painter Frida Kahlo where she also lived with her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera. The house was built in 1904 in the Coyoacán district and converted into a museum dedicated to Frida Kahlo's life and work in 1958. It is one of Mexico City's most-visited museums with about 500,000 visitors per year.
The ceremony consists of a 30-meter mast climb, followed by the launch of the dancers, who attach themselves with ropes to descend to the ground. It is particularly practiced in the state of Veracruz. The Danza de los Voladores was named an Intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2009.
San Miguel de Allende, is one of the first Mexican cities to have been americanized and gentrified in the early 1990s. In 2008, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Soumaya Museum is an art museum located in the Polanco district of Mexico City. Inaugurated in 2011, it is owned by the Carlos Slim, A.C Foundation. and designed by Mexican architect Fernando Romero. The project cost almost $800 million.
Taqueria El Califa de León in Mexico City is the first taqueria to be awarded a star in the prestigious Michelin guide, in 2024. It has been serving tacos for more than 60 years. Its specialty is the “gaonera”, a beef taco created in honor of Mexican bullfighter Rodolfo Gaona.
Located in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park, the National Museum of Anthropology is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Designed by architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Jorge Campuzano, and Rafael Mijares Alcérreca, it was inaugurated in 1964.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in the Cizre district to celebrate Newroz also known as Noruz or Nevruz which marks the new year according to the Persian calendar. Millions of people across the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe are celebrating the Newroz festival which signifies the arrival of spring. In 1992, dozens of people were killed during Newroz celebrations in Cizre.
The Keith Haring's bathroom mural at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Manhattan, New York, United States, is pictured. Painted in 1989, 'Once Upon A Time,' celebrates sexual liberation before the AIDS epidemic in the USA.
The main hall of the Gilder Center in Manhattan, New York, USA was designed by architect Jeanne Gang to resemble a canyon. The $465 million new wing of the Natural History Museum opened in 2023.
