Photographs, paintings, sculptures and other items from the gallery's permanent collection are featured in "The Struggle for ...

If you're a wine newbie or a discriminating wine connoisseur, France is a great place to extend your appreciation of the grape. The French have been catering to wine tourists for many years and are well-prepared to show you a great time. Consider a wine travel adventure for your next trip; you can journey along wine routes, tour vineyards and take wine tasting classes all over France.  Here's a little information about three of France's best-known wine regions.
Bordeaux
Bordeaux has been a wine trading center since at least the 12th century. Eleanor of Aquitaine, ...

Every region of Italy, from the Veneto to Sardinia, produces wine. Many Italian wines are consumed locally; you won’t find too many wines from Le Marche, for example, in grocery stores near Naples, let alone across the Atlantic. Touring Italy’s wine regions is an excellent way to sample wines you will never find back home.
Italian vacation farms, called “agriturismi” in Italian, are wonderful places to stay if you’re interested in wine. An agriturismo is a farmhouse or large estate home that offers both guestrooms and information about the products grown ...

Australia is the sixth largest country in the world, which means it's about the same size as the 48 mainland states of the USA and 50 percent larger than Europe.  Nonetheless, it has the lowest population density in the world - only two people per square kilometer.  Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands. The mainland is the largest island and the world’s smallest, flattest continent and boasts a vibrant history of battlers, bushrangers and brave soldiers, sporting heroes, working heroes and plucky migrants. It’s ...

We're happy to announce our new fundraising project in which we're teaming up with Save the Elephants, a leading elephant conservation and research association, to help prevent elephants from becoming extinct.
Here's how it works, for every 10 hotels and 20 travelers that register on memohotel.com before September 30, 2009, we'll donate $10 to the Save the Elephant team. Save the Elephants is a non-profit organization that has been conducting elephant research for the past 16 years. Poaching and human cultivation of elephant habitats has reduced the elephant population considerably ...

"To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily, is not to have seen Italy at all."  - Goethe
Due to its sunny, dry climate, magnificent scenery, cuisine, history, and splendid architectural legacy, Sicily attracts many tourists from mainland Italy and abroad. The tourist season peaks in the summer months, although people visit the island all year round. Mount Etna, the beaches, the archeological sites, and the two major cities of Catania and Palermo are the favoured destinations for tourists. The beautiful old town of Taormina and the neighbouring seaside resort of ...