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a closer look at the tradition behind this ancient sport. i want to welcome to another edition of euro max with me, your host, megan lee. here's a look at what else we've got in store for you today. look at some secrets in the fairy tale council neu shrine shine. and how one portuguese artist giving stucco molding a contemporary twist. in the south of france, there is an unusual event that comes along once a year water jousting. now this is when 2 rival boats approach each other and the joust or is try to knock each other into the water. well, it's a sport the dates back to medieval times and a little has changed since then. after a 2 year break, due to the corona virus, water jousting was back on in full force in the town of set. and we went along to witness the action. ah,

these water joust ers, are having at it in the port city of set in southern france. the tournament is dedicated to the cities patron saint saint louis, making it to the next round requires a solid sense of balance. the event kicks off with the parade in the morning. there are $100.00 participants and the role men. one is sebastian. i belong she did, we did as you guy got started with water jousting in 1976. and i take part in the santa we tournament every year. the biggest challenge is to win. just participating isn't hard, but making it to the end is really tough upgrade for follow up with your typical julia, i'm going to win this afternoon. the tournament opens with a leisurely ride down the canal. roy, each red and blue row boat seats,

10 rowers. they play a supporting role while the joust or is try to knock their opponents into the water using a 3 meter long lance. the winner is whoever's left standing in the championship match sebastian i belong has already won the tournament twice in 232019 she was so good. yeah. i feel great. and so i'm not under any pressure with i'm not one of the favorite since they're a guy is younger and stronger than me. what did what the competition as far from decided? yes, i said walter hooked up the tournament gets under way the jesters. all dressed in white carry wouldn't shields and lances. it's a fierce competition. and one after another goes overboard. the rules haven't changed since the port of set was founded in 1666.

ah, you every once in good spirits. it's a very traditional sparks with all the water jesters who come here and you do? yes. okay. and you know, we're happy to be here with our friends. so it's funny. we just don't know the rules like who's again and we'll find out now with sebastian hub, announced turn. can he defend his title as the 2019 champion? he tries to keep his cool no luck this year. his dream of victory has been dashed. he may have lost his round, but sebastian, i belong, isn't about to lose his passion for the sport. what it is up. so i'm really disappointed that was on now. i've spent 3 years eager to defend my title, and then this happens. it's pretty sad if he's there, but a well,

i'll just come back next years. stronger than ever had a portion of the full night has fallen in set after 8 hours. the final round is about to get underway. 98 participants have been disqualified. the remaining 2 are the final is the row boats bear down on each other one last time for the final joust? the some 17000 spectators go while the sandwich tournament has a winner. benjamin i'll know from set. now for the 2nd time, his trophy is a shield that will have his name engraved on it. the day ends in celebration, sebastian all along is there too. and already looking forward to next year. it's

also a good way to stay cool in the summer heat. moving on now to one of germany's most popular tourist destinations, the fairy tale castle neu, schwann's time. now maybe you've even been there and brought home a souvenir or 2 with you. well, the castle was commissioned by bavarian kingwood big the 2nd when he was just 23 years old. but he actually spent very little time there before his tragic death in 1886. and even though the castle welcomes millions of visitors each year, it was never intended to be open to the public. now that is just one of the surprising facts of this legendary structure. oh, nice feinstein was the favorite castle at the various fairy tale, king ludwig the 2nd and hardly any one knows it better than this man who is here to reveal 5 little known facts about the castle. his ghost got whom i am prince leopold bavaria hurriedly king looked like the 2nd was my great, great,

great uncle here though, i'll let you in on some of the background. in secrets of this castle fighting, the cornerstone was laid in 18. 69 near the town of fuson bavaria. it said that up to $300.00 crafts people per day worked on the site, creating an architectural masterpiece that still enchants people. the world over. secret number one is o'brien's, or it's so impressive that even disneyland had a castle built that's based on it market bought. so even walt disney realised this is the kind of castle that children and king ludwig the 2nd would dream of kinda on when routing ty, alshaun was that big. the 2nd wanted noise punch time to recall a medieval nights castle. more than any other of his building projects. this one embodies the ideals and dreams of the fairy tale. king. i bombed evolve more interested in the arts than politics with one of

my i admire him because he had a vision that he was determined to make a reality perfect in both. that might be what connects me to him. as someone who comes from the house of vittles box criminal, san jose completed, he was one of the best known kings, though he's also been misunderstood. edwards, but he was called crazy things like that. mcmurry been there, but in truth i was he was just a person who wanted to create something very special. this on the shopping boys to the halls have many surprises in star. i yeah, i just imagine of him. i really do. you go from the living room into a grotto and i need court. that's the kind of thing he dreamed of jolla boards. i am far, he wanted to create something extraordinary. i was like something that transcended reality of the entity. the house was and now for secret number 2 with ya noon 5 years now, i'll show you something very special that nobody has been allowed to see,

but at least none of the tourists was careful. and there's a secret door here, i'm to, i'll open and markets all. he could disappear through here, leaving the grotto and swore he could get away from every one without passing by them. and dick on, he just vanished and provides a comb pursuing the death. there's also another door, the broken back into the castle load pick. the 2nd was not only a dreamer, he was a pioneer of technological progress. and that brings us to secret number 3. here. my tired at here is part of the technology he had developed on this, and this is a telephone that was installed in 1884 because he wanted to have a connection to hone schwann, go, castle gamer, a day. he was always coming up with ideas and inventions early in the z, and boy, an electric bell system, where the switchboard would show the servants where the king was at any time with its central heating and up to date kitchen appliances. the castle was far ahead of

its time i knew said if i'd love to have a time machine and go back to the year 1884 and ask him why he did what he did out of agatha. the bedroom walls are covered with scenes from the offer is if they had back now, the castle itself is attribute to the famous german composer and that's where secret number 4 comes in. within here, here we see rashad wagner is tristan and his old. oh, by them a few lot big worked with him a lot and was really impressed by his music going on. and he had that reflected here. if you feeding of king lot, vic only got to spend $172.00 days that noise launched on castle. it had not yet been completed when he died in 1886. at that time, only the gate house at the entrance and the palace with the living quarters were finished, which brings us to secret number 5. jarvis, his art noise lunchtime castle was never completed. your boat,

only the torso is standing here now on physical on this floor plan. you see here was going to be the chapel capella given back there. where that gordon is, is where the castle keep was to be belong. is that unfortunately it was never finished up if you wanted is not the location he chose. paranoia feinstein castle is unique and figure surrounded by mountains and lakes home. then bowden. he planned to have a damn bill to create a lake here where he could go boating, omar, and see through shopping weather. so he had fantastically interesting ideas and either it would have been nice to see what that might have looked like. as in oscar shouted. even in its unfinished state noise feinstein, castle fascinates people around the world today. it's one of the most popular tourist destinations in germany. now, one thing you notice when you tour castles like noise feinstein is the detailed artistry

of the interiors. they're often enhanced to buy decorative mouldings, which is an ancient handicrafts seen in classical or baroque architecture. now hand produce stucco moulding is associated with the past. but one artist in portugal is giving it a fresh new look. oh those see all that one, that is it's something very special to work with this material because it's always such a great inspiration says that about every step in the process is important to me from the really big ones to the smaller ones because i enjoy every step along the way, the my skin last student fuss loops. this is so even the n. my name's even vienna, and i'm a sculptor. i work exclusively with plaster, which has always been my passion you by shown this simple vienna do crushed at about 75 kilometers north of porto. eva vienna lives and works here. in her studio, she creates stucco artwork in all shapes and sizes. her

creations are a departure from traditional or nate stucco decorations they grace private houses, restaurants and hotels, the world over in to look seasonal past. so everything from the past serves as great inspiration to me with through this there's a long tradition that i tried to draw on speed than i want to maintain, respect for what's gone before, but employed the technique in a more contemporary fashion. to put a news, every project starts out with a sketch like this one for a private client in the united states. lucas this, the, this for this panel. it was important to me to add the element of water, for example, into aqua. the client for this work is not from here. an ocean lies between his country and portugal. looks bottles please. the stories that i'm telling through the work or my own re interpretation thought he is capable of vainly of a contend. believe in tando foreman,

the artist pours the liquid plaster into a silicon mold fashioned, especially for this relief. to make the stucco more durable. she mixes sy, so hemp fibers into it. spreading the paste evenly is hard work. ah, it sets for about 15 minutes before the mold can be lifted off the dried stucco. in the end, there will be 17 separate stucco panels. each one a work of art in itself, measuring about 3 by 5 meters. about 5 months of work go into large scale reliefs like this. eva vienna prefers not to reveal what it will sell for, or who will buy it. he says he'll mince on so's thing, the people who commissioned something like this have a taste for the unusual and a love for detail and build done some faces. these are one of a kind pieces systems and the price reflects valiant. the design is made especially

for a single client. you and it's not repeated to know it. so the kind of person who commissioned this wanted to invest in a work of art yet in the artist was born in vienna du costa. she wouldn't even think of leaving the area. she's far too intimately connected to it. and it's many stucco treasures such as the stairwell of this designer hotel, a singleton guiding the city. it's impossible to be indifferent to what's gone before. buildings like this one have been restored so well that it makes me happy just to see the care that was put into it. there an important inspiration for my own work. so fish he thing, eat the missile, look at least 3 to so to this, to some of her clients live right close by the entrance wall of the house belonging to the entrepreneurs, isabella, and shows. a pe chateau is decorated by a stucco florida ceiling relief of 2 white dear. he's about

a shorter remembers her 1st meeting with the artist or even the school you all eva discovered a bit of the tenderness we feel as a family, something quite deep, very much her own not eve, but these 2 little deer and the vines around them stand for the tenderness we have between us and our 3 children off the phone to receive it and the mountain environment shall something of what we have all around us. that po cookie moves that i like, hilton, austin, had leveled the tradition of a craft, dating back centuries, reinterpreted for the present. it's this blend that makes eva vienna's stucco. work so captivating or back here in germany. berlin is gearing up for fashion week and in light of this we thought we would take a look at some of the characteristics of typical german fashion. now you might think of later hosen or a durned old, but in fact,

there is so much more german fashion designers are making important contributions to the industry with modern looks like with this outfit that i'm wearing today. oh, my british colleague rachel stuart, dared to give us her personal take on germans. and they're interesting fashion choices i think of german fashion really put me on the spot here. i don't want to generalize, but okay, here are a couple of things i've noticed. every day is casual friday in germany, a jeans and sneakers combo is acceptable attire, not only in the park or the supermarket, but also most offices in like labs. a favorite among men and women is the practical short preferably beijing, an unflattering and absolute classic that screen german data on holiday is the short lived texture. something for the whole family, the sensible sandal furnace diamond points with keeping his office on. studies show

that despite having the highest gdp in europe, jim is on particularly big spenders when it comes to fashion. and what they do by tends to favor functionality, overflow, and voice in the german styles, definitely practical nic, simple, a bit reserved. it was nick. we, germans don't really know how to dress up anymore and seems on if we go to the oftener wearing genie. ok, that should really be a no go oda, ethan or we got for dinner and our genes and how we just don't value fashion is of passion is a more doors or which would of diagnosis. i'd also say it has a lot to do with the 2nd world war. down back then, the idea of discovering yourself for developing your own style was just totally crushed. i would i in room order to and thicken, show him up on my grammar, always says reuse everything over and over until it's completely worn out. and i think you can still see that attitude in the way we drop it off in 5 years period. so the germans are more back clack than clutch back,

more high top than high heel. but that's not necessarily a bad thing. sure, the french might be chic, but the germans, a comfortable. the overall trend for practicality and thrift in us also mean that your clothes, the less likely to mark you out with belonging to a particular social class. oh. and the transition from day to night is a breeze. some say this hawks all the way back to when most of modern day germany was part of the kingdom of prussia, the so called promotion virtues include a sense of order, self restraint, and pragmatism. in 2007, germany decided it wanted a piece of the international catwalk action and launched the bed and fashion week. the event is known for attracting young designers and tackling issues like sustainability, but can compete with the big guns barragan's because the berlin fashion week really shines when it comes to its focus on sustainability. but apart from that, it's 2nd or 3rd class in the lineup of international fashion. weeks locked out and i'm not to non fission weeks. so long and warden is brooklyn. if fashion doesn't

make it out onto the streets car, if it doesn't reflect the zeitgeist, the cross, then it's just a piece of article. and that's where german fashion gets stuck with the doors. it hasn't succeeded in being worn on the streets offer, presents was on different cities in germany and 9 for particular fashion ticks. in hamburg. it's a passion for dot blue. everything i'm bright raincoats. the chicky micky law in this'll doth prefer the finer things in life. and in munich, every one with leader holes and every single day, just getting as delightful as that would be for us tourists. it's just not happening. sorry. then we have been in. so you know everything i told you so far about german fashion tendencies. just look at it 1000000000 construct when it comes to fashion in berlin. anything goes of vintage is key to the berlin, the style. what's typical of berlin is a layer to look with a mix of materials and the animal prints are always ahead. i don't be afraid to mix and match them to check out the fetish section. you can't go wrong with latex in leather, in berlin, but i think i still need some help. nope,

not one inspired by lady di and very berlin, a sporty sweater. yet let's hit a berlin techno club. let this last look is perfect for sunday brunch has been i'm belinda. ah i so sure about that last one or i am finally when is chef a pip? lavelle needs ingredients for her restaurants. she just grabs her basket and walks outdoors into nature. well, lavelle now lives on the island of man between the u. k and ireland. so she collects wild herbs berries, seaweed and plants that others might consider weeds. and she creates a menu according to what ever she finds

ah, just walking along and seeing what there is and browsing the eye on. that me is my c o 2. my name is priscilla val, i'm the chef. no restaurant guys the on the on demand. and i'm going to show you how far is my experience for the restaurants? ah, i me to the out of man, just a couple of years ago actually came to open a different restaurant and just completely fell in love with the place and the forge and opportunities and just decided, okay, my plans for the future. i'm just going to do them now is the perfect opportunity and i did yeah, man is perfect for forages. it's literally a florida heaven music. so found cement,

ground over. so it was like will got weeds and this is like really have h is kind of part we play a nuisance with gardner's though, it's like really invasive and intrusive. god knows who was right to get rid of it, and i'll use it in the restaurant in many ways will make really nice oil for fish. and i'm going to dry load this out and then just use it with high go. different fee become available. this is really like to try me it looks kind of a surprise to work with time and then he has raised such a bright, beautiful green doesn't face like see with me i will never leave behind of mine. it's of unesco buyers for everything just grows

in abundance issues. so biodiversity just did say, ah, so in regards to ethan vasa, i just wanted to start something that was solely about the ingredients. nature has to offer. i'm not going to use ingredients from here. every life is not available, it's not available. this isn't my lake which is public in manx and to be honest is not much gone into it just because efficient branch and that's what we do not wish cooking. just make all on the play in the weekly tank menu of this goes handed, handing to crate in an exciting thing for me and a staff member passed on to the customers to get them excited about the i did so just to round up tasty menu to see them, we've got some meadows eat cookies and then we have some storage black cards on top and just with a little bit of local cream. i think it's really important to so from what

nature you offer and what is about so that then they respect it and they want to look after it ah, on the big fight at the making each day. enjoyable and making all jobs enjoyable, and actually enjoy and being a chef again with. so i really, really think that in the restaurant trade, sustainability should, should be at the heart of everything we do now. because fundamentally, the one thing to me that everybody has in common is that everybody has to eat and it's something we can all share with. oh wow, what a glorious landscape. and with that we wrap up today's show. now don't forget to

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