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As we look back at 2024, Europe continues to captivate travelers with its rich tapestry of cultural heritage, breathtaking landscapes, and vibrant cities. Whether you're a student planning a budget-friendly tour or someone looking to immerse in luxurious experiences, the continent's diverse offerings cater to every taste and interest.

Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside Florence's Medici Chapel where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been attributed by some experts to Michelangelo.

The narrow, arched room below the Medici Chapels Museum in Florence has some suspiciously virtuosic doodles on the walls.

Latmos Mountains in western Türkiye is drawing attention with its natural landscape and historical texture. Traces of Latmos (Beşparmak), which is visited by many tourists every year for its prehistoric rock paintings, can be seen in the Siena Cathedral in the Tuscany region of Italy.

The Uffizi museum in Florence said on Oct. 10 it was suing French fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier for "unauthorized use" of Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus," its Italian Renaissance masterpiece.

Painted by Sandro Botticelli in the mid-1480s, it shows the nude goddess Venus standing on a giant scallop shell, covering her loins with her long blonde hair.

It is admired the world over as an exquisite depiction of maternal grief. But Michelangelo's "Pieta" has overshadowed two other moving sculptures on the same subject by the Renaissance giant.

That is why Florence's Opera del Duomo museum in Italy is putting on display together for the first time all three versions of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of her son Jesus Christ.

The third edition of Master of Arts Film Festival, dedicated to the world's biggest names in world art and culture, has 77 titles from around the world. Ten productions are Bulgarian. The films will be shown from April 30th in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, the organizers announced.