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The Amerigo Vespucci, the oldest ship in the Italian navy with 92 years of active service, makes a port call in Rio de Janeiro for its second round-the-world voyage. The ship, commissioned in 1930, will pass through five continents, three oceans, 28 countries, and 31 ports.
Euronews visits what is believed to be the oldest lakeside settlement in Europe.
More than 80 years on from the Dunkirk and Operation Dynamo, in which hundreds of thousands of British and French soldiers were saved, researchers are identifying the ships that sunk as they helped in the heroic effort. With an array of technology, archaeologists on board the Andre Malraux are able to scan the wrecks, cataloging an unseen underwater heritage. "It's quite an emotive feeling" says Mark James, a geophysicist from Historic England, "you realise the human sacrifice that was made".
A host of rare works including the world's oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible headline New York's spring sales. The Codex Sassoon is more than 1,000 years old and is tipped to fetch up to $50 million at Sotheby's. Also appearing in the auctions are iconic works of art by figures including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Henri Rousseau.
In the sunlight of the French Riviera lies the port of La Ciotat. It's home to the Eden Theatre, the world's oldest cinema. It was there, in 1895, that an audience witnessed the first ever projection of moving pictures: the mythical "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat" by France's Lumière brothers. A hundred and thirty years later, Michel Cornille is the guardian of this monument of cultural heritage. After being closed for three decades following a deadly hold-up in 1982, the Eden Theatre has been showing films to audiences again since 2013.
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