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• Hannah McKinlay: How to practice mindfulness while traveling

  By Hannah McKinlay on August 6, 2022

  

  One stop on the list of many tourists in London is Abbey Road, where they stride across the famous crosswalk in a single file line to recreate The Beatles 1969 album cover. Among these tourists was the Miranda family of… Read More ›

• Kamree Laursen: The floating city in Italy

  By Kamree Laursen on August 6, 2022

  

  VENICE, Italy — Brightly colored buildings with matching shutter windows, bridges galore and gondolas on every corner, this city is bursting with excited tourists and locals alike.  I’ve never been to Venice before, or Italy at all for that matter,… Read More ›

• Paris is home to its own version of “The happiest place on Earth”

  By Kamree Laursen on August 6, 2022

  

  PARIS — With the sound of music and joyous screams, Disneyland Paris is filled with eager friends and families strolling the streets of Disneyland and Walt Disney Studios.  Disneyland Paris began construction in 1988 and officially opened for tourists in… Read More ›

• Gillian Marcucci: Seeing structures of power — the Roman Colosseum and the Roman Forum

  By gillimarcucci on August 6, 2022

  

  Visiting both the Roman Colosseum and Roman Forum was an amazing experience. As I entered the Colosseum, I was enthralled by the large architecture. As I stood on the ground of the stadium and looked all around me, I pictured… Read More ›

• A Sikh, a Hasidic Jew and a Latter-day Saint talk about representing minority faiths

  By Ariel Harmer on July 28, 2022

  

  Yonitan Katz, Harpreet Singh Wahan and Roberta Bracco live incredibly different lives and have never met. Katz is from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood in New York; Wahan is a Sikh from New Delhi, India, and lives in… Read More ›

• Italy’s artistic development forms layers of history

  By Savannah Leavitt on July 28, 2022

  

  Another day’s work finds Victor Santinoli handing out earpieces one afternoon in mid-July in the Duomo di Milano. Santinoli, a Milanese working as a tour guide at the Duomo, points out different periods of architecture within the cathedral.  Italy boasts… Read More ›

• Week four: Students explore four places in seven days

  By Mary Harris on July 28, 2022

  

  By Mary Harris, Brendan Armstrong, Kamree Laursen and Cate Ferraro BYU students finished up their third week studying abroad immersed in the history and culture of Italy.  The next stop on the trip was Florence, a beautiful Italian town with… Read More ›

• The Roman Colosseum: An architectural wonder across the world

  By Kamree Laursen on July 28, 2022

  

  As Lauren and Kelly stood exactly where gladiators fought battles thousands of years ago, they were able to enjoy one of Rome’s most famous landmarks, the Roman Colosseum. The Colosseum began construction in 70 A.D. under the direction of Emperor… Read More ›

• Juliet’s house calls tourists to Verona

  By Brendan Armstrong on July 28, 2022

  

  VERONA, Italy — Millions of tourists flock to the home of Juliet, of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” fame, every year, spotlighting a beautiful piece of Medieval architecture. Most of them however come for very different reasons. Verona is home to… Read More ›

• Sikhs in Flushing: overcoming misconceptions and promoting religious understanding

  By Annika Ohran on July 28, 2022

  

  At the Gurudwara Sikh Center of New York, Flushing, a community of Sikhs strives to promote religious understanding and acceptance for people of all faiths.  Flushing, New York, is one of the most diverse communities in the United States, with… Read More ›

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