After opening its doors in April, Floriade Expo 2022 has become gorgeous, green and fully grown – despite some initial negative media coverage. Visitors have been impressed by the design and diversity of the park. Through the theme ‘Growing Green Cities’, Floriade is showcasing vital solutions for making urban areas greener and healthier. Innovations that are now more important than
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen it so busy!” declares my dad as we pull into the car park of Housesteads, which sits along Hadrian’s Wall, one of the best-preserved Roman forts in Britain. He’s right: the car park is rammed and the entrance to the site is unusually crowded: tourists with backpacks sit on picnic benches eating cake from
It has been described as the “sale of the century”, an auction of more than 1,300 pieces of 17th to 20th-century furniture, art, jewels and interior decoration from one of Paris’s grandest mansions.
