The Taj Mahal, La Casa Azul, the tombs of Alcobaça, two volcanoes in Mexico. When love becomes stone, journey and pilgrimage.
The Taj Mahal, La Casa Azul, the tombs of Alcobaça, two volcanoes in Mexico. When love becomes stone, journey and pilgrimage.
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Eternal love carved in marble
The Mughal emperor who, when his favorite wife died bearing their fourteenth child, built the Taj Mahal as her tomb and the grandest declaration of eternal love ever raised.
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Fifty-one years, nine months and four days
Florentino's wait for Fermina is fixed by the novel itself: fifty-one years, nine months and four days, until he declares his love again at her husband's funeral.
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Forty years of mourning for love
When Albert died in 1861, Queen Victoria wore mourning black for the remaining 40 years of her life.
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The love that wrote the Divine Comedy
Dante barely spoke with Beatrice, whom he first saw at nine, yet he made her his guide to Paradise and the muse of all Western literature.
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Twenty years weaving the wait
While Odysseus takes twenty years to return from Troy, Penelope holds off 108 suitors by weaving and unweaving a shroud to buy time, faithful until the reunion.
Read the storyThe samba reborn by love
The great poet of samba, founder of the Mangueira school, and Eusébia "Dona Zica," the cook who had loved him since youth: they reunited as mature widowers, and she pulled him out of obscurity and drink to give him back his song.
Read the storyTopping the list is Shah Jahan & Mumtaz Mahal: The Mughal emperor who, when his favorite wife died bearing their fourteenth child, built the Taj Mahal as her tomb and the grandest declaration of eternal love ever raised.