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Mexico City, Jan 4 (EFE).- Before discovering Casa Frida, Alex Navarro thought of shelters as uniformly hostile places.(CAMERA:América Neri)
'Meow Park' in the Turkish coastal town of Mersin provides a safe haven for local stray cats. At the park, homeless felines can find food, shelter and safety at the facility as well as the company of other cats.
Rome, Jul 26 (EFE).- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The Colosseum of Rome offers a new tour to its visitors in its hypogeum, the underground galleries, which allows knowing the bowels of the amphitheater and "relive" the competitions during its more than 400 years of activity through the new catwalk, which for the first time crosses the entire amphitheater.FOOTAGE OF THE TOUR OF THE ROMAN COLOSSEUM AND SOUNDBITES OF ALFONSINA RUSSO, DIRECTOR OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF THE COLOSSEUM.TRANSLATION:1. "Now the public can visit all the underground areas before it was not possible, only the eastern sector, now instead the visitor goes down through the libidinal door, and exit through the triumphal door, travels the entire 200 meters between one door and another, and you can also know the development of the hypogea, what happened. Over the years the hypogea were transformed, although enriched. Now we know that there was very complex machinery, with elevators and mobile platforms in the corridor, taking out bring out scenes that enriched the shows. "2. "We have defined on time, we know of a first phase of 28 elevators throughout the annular perimeter of the arena, which was replaced in the 3rd century AD by 60 elevators in the central corridor. Therefore, there was a great transformation in the taste for games, in the way, they were played, the perimeter moved to the center. "
Rome, Jul 20 (EFE).- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The French urban artist JR has opened a famous Renaissance palace in the center of Rome, the Palazzo Farnese, on the canal, from the embassy of his country, with an enormous optical illusion on its facade that allows one to imagine the interior of the building.FOOTAGE OF THE MURAL OF THE FRENCH ARTIST JR IN ROME.
Dhamrai, Jun 11 (EFE/EPA).- Born as a boy in the old town of Dhaka, Ananya Banik stayed with her family until she turned 20 when she decided to live openly as transgender in the face of growing stigma and discrimination over her gender.“It was a very emotional decision for me to leave the family. My family always faced a question about my gender. But I could do little as I felt I am more of a woman than a man,” said Banik, now 42.Banik found a job with a nonprofit working with sexual minority people before she finally decided to leave. (Camera: MONIRUL ALAM).B-ROLL OF THE BEAUTY OF AANYA BANIK IN DHAMRAI, DHAKA DISTRICT, BANGLADESH.SOUND BITE: AANYA BANIK (IN ENGLISH).
Rome, Apr 22 (EFE) .- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The headquarters of the Italian Embassy to the Holy See, the Borromeo Palace, an iconic Renaissance building in the Italian capital that Pope Pius IV ordered to be built, has been enriched with an important collection of contemporary art and Italian design from the last 70 years, which coexist with its cloister, its gardens and its rich interior rooms, creating an interesting contrast that can be visited until June 2022. FOOTAGE OF THE ITALIAN EMBASSY BEFORE THE HOLY SEE, THE PALACE BORROMEO. SOUNDBITES OF MARIA CRISTINA FINUCCI, ARTIST (IN ITALIAN).TRANSLATIONS: "Appeal to warn that an archaeologist in 2,000 years will not find the treasures that we have found if not only plastic".