Love stories by country and culture
From Mexico to Brazil, from the Hispanic US to Spain: the love each culture gave the world.
Love stories by country and culture
🇲🇽 Mexico
From the muse-love of Frida and Diego to the volcano that is Popocatépetl watching over Iztaccíhuatl, Mexico holds some of the most intense and visitable love stories on earth.
Explore more🇨🇴 Colombia
The land of García Márquez and of the telenovelas the whole world copied. From Florentino and Fermina in Cartagena to Betty and Armando, Colombia writes love like no one else.
Explore more🇦🇷 Argentina
The country of tango and of Evita. Loves of political and popular passion that became musical and myth, with Buenos Aires as their eternal stage.
Explore more🇨🇱 Chile
The homeland of two Nobel laureates of love: Neruda, who wrote "100 Love Sonnets" for Matilde, and Gabriela Mistral, whose love for Doris Dana her letters revealed.
Explore more🇵🇪 Peru
The cradle of Inca love. Ollantay and Cusi Coyllur, the great story of Quechua literature, live on in the stones of Ollantaytambo and the Sacred Valley.
Explore more🇧🇷 Brazil
From the tragic love of Inês de Castro, crowned queen after death, to the Amazonian legends of the Vitória-régia and Iguazú, Brazil is pure epic romance.
Explore more🇺🇸 Hispanic United States
The most iconic Latina love story in the United States is Selena and Chris Pérez in Texas. Latino love in the US is music, border and memory.
Explore more🇪🇸 Spain
From Lorca and Dalí at the Residencia de Estudiantes to the Lovers of Teruel, Spain keeps the loves of poets, painters and medieval legends.
Explore more🇨🇺 Cuba
The island of salsa and revolution. From Celia Cruz and her "negro lindo" Pedro Knight to the guerrilla love of Che and Aleida March, Cuba loves with sugar and with fire.
Explore more🇮🇹 Italy
The cradle of Western love: Verona and its Romeo and Juliet, the Beatrice who guided Dante through Paradise. In Italy, love became universal literature.
Explore more🇫🇷 France
From the medieval letters of Abelard and Heloise, now together in Père-Lachaise, to Napoleon's burning letters to Joséphine: France is the homeland of the love letter.
Explore more🇬🇷 Greece
The land of the myths that still explain love: Orpheus descending to the underworld, Eros and Psyche, faithful Penelope weaving twenty years of waiting for Odysseus.
Explore more🇮🇳 India
From the Taj Mahal — the world's most famous monument to love — to the divine love of Radha and Krishna, India built the greatest declarations of love in marble and in myth.
Explore more🇯🇵 Japan
The country that turned romance into art for a generation. From "Your Name" to Inuyasha, the loves of anime cross time, space and worlds.
Explore more🇨🇳 China
Loves written in the sky and the stars: the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl reunited once a year, the Butterfly Lovers reborn never to part again.
Explore more🇬🇧 United Kingdom
From Austen and the Brontës to the kings who gave up their throne, by way of Tristan, Lancelot and Queen Victoria: the United Kingdom wrote modern romantic love.
Explore more🇵🇹 Portugal
The homeland of love beyond death: Inês de Castro, crowned queen after death, and the tombs of Alcobaça inscribed "until the end of the world."
Explore more🇪🇬 Egypt
The land of Cleopatra, the queen whose love for Mark Antony fused passion and empire and ended in one of history's most famous suicides.
Explore more🏛️ Persia
The cradle of the East's love poetry: Layla and Majnun, the love that drives one mad, immortalized by Nizami and turned into mystical allegory.
Explore more🇧🇴 Bolivia
Land of Andean legends: love and reconciliation made mountain in the snow peaks Illimani and Illampu, and the cantuta flower as a symbol of union.
Explore more🇲🇨 Monaco
The principality of the real fairy tale: Grace Kelly, the Hollywood star who left film to become Princess of Monaco.
Explore more🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
The island of Quisqueya, cradle of the Taíno world: here ruled Anacaona, the poet-cacica of Xaragua whose love and resistance alongside Caonabo became the Caribbean's first great love story.
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