Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

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Bright and white

Fastened with an 18-karat, white gold clasp: hand-knotted bracelet from Ole Lynggaard.

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Sneak peak: Palladium’s Pallaphoenix Flame Ls are made of grained leather.

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Fashionable hippy bag from the Capsule Collection by Loewe and Paula’s Ibiza boutique.

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Natural: Medipharma Cosmetics care products nourish the skin with hyaluronic acid.

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Cologne + Berlin

Soul goddess

Lauryn Hill, U.S. rapper and former frontwoman of the hip-hop group Fugees, only produced a single album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. That was 21 years ago, but it’s regarded as a milestone of neo-soul. This month, the singer is performing in Germany: August 27 in Cologne and August 29 in Berlin.

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My favorite photo

I took this on the waterfront in Vancouver, looking toward Vancouver Harbour and the North Shore Mountains. “Digital Orca, 2009” is a sculpture by Canadian artist and author Douglas Coupland, and to me, it’s both wishful and optimistic.

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Apulia, Italy

Spider power

According to Apulian legend, the venom from a tarantula bite makes you dance like crazy, which is where the festival La Notte della Taranta gets ist name. An array of concerts, folk dances and wild parties, it is held all over Apulia, southern Italy, every August.

 

 

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A change of scene is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves

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