Glorious

The Titanic ready for launch, in May 1911. The ship was constructed on Queen's Island, now known as the Titanic Quarter, in Belfast Harbour, part of the Harland ...

The library at KU Leuven is also one of the oldest in Europe, founded in 1425. Alongside its history and textile heritage is also a thriving café culture in this part of France, popularly called ‘the French Rome’. Housed within the 600-year-old KU Leuven, another spot that is of historical interest is Lemaître’s living and working quarters in Heilige-Geestcollege (Holy Ghost College). The city was home to wealthy textile merchants who built several of the city’s most elegant buildings. The three-tier aqueduct is half an hour from Nîmes, and a place worth visiting for its magnificent arch across river Gard. Leuven is a university town in Belgium where Father Georges Lemaître, a little-known Belgian Catholic priest, conceived the Big Bang theory in 1931. But all of this still exists and that is why it is safe to say that in Genoa, history comes alive. History is screaming from everywhere you see in the southern French city of Nimes with its Mediterranean feel and Roman relics and ruins. It belonged to Tadolini’s family until 1967, when it became a cafe, an obscure detail in the city more famous for Babuino, a stone’s throw away from the workshop. You would visit Rome for the cobbled alleyways, Renaissance palaces, ancient ruins and baroque piazzas, all in its historic centre. The docks where the ship was built have been preserved and turned into a striking visitor attraction, all within the Harland and Wolff shipyard. It shows us where we come from and where we are headed.