Azahar

Orange blossoms are fragrant flowers that grow on the bitter orange tree, otherwise known as the wild orange tree. These trees are found along the Mediterranean Sea, with a region in Spain even nicknamed the Costa del Azahar, or orange blossom coast, a result of the orange groves that can be found lining the coast. In March, the trees grow the small, white waxy flowers before producing the bitter orange. Orange blossom, like many other white floral notes, was present in several 18th-century scents by Jean-Louis Fargeon (the royal perfumer). These include Parfum de Trianon, which was created for Marie Antoinette, as well as in Eau de Cypre Composée, created for Madame du Barry. When Louis XIV built the Palace of Versailles, he instructed that the beds of Grand Trianon be planted with many of these beautiful flowers, leading to its well-known nickname, the perfumed court.

The Love for the Three Oranges or The Three Citrons (Neapolitan: Le Tre Cetre) is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in the Pentamerone in the 17th century. It is the concluding tale, and the one the heroine of the frame story uses to reveal that an imposter has taken her place. The literary tale by Basile is considered to be the oldest attestation of tale type ATU 408, “The Three Oranges”, of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index. Variants are recorded from oral tradition among European Mediterranean countries, in the Middle East and Turkey, as well as across Iran and India. A king, who only had one son, anxiously waited for him to marry. One day, the prince cut his finger; his blood fell on white cheese. The prince declared that he would only marry a woman as white as the cheese and as red as the blood, so he set out to find her. The prince wandered the lands until he came to the Island of Ogresses, where two little old women each told him that he could find what he sought here, if he went on, and the third gave him three citrons, with a warning not to cut them until he came to a fountain. A fairy would fly out of each, and he had to give her water at once.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19 and is one of the most renowned literary works of the 20th century in the Spanish language. The book has been translated into many languages; in English, the translation was made by poet W. S. Merwin in 1969. Through this book, Neruda achieves an ideal form of communication with the reader while simultaneously maintaining a complex and demanding elaboration that encompasses both the values of the immediate tradition and the new aspects of contemporary poetry emerging at the time of its composition. Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

The Monza Circuit, officially called the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, is a 5.793 km (3.600 mi) race track near the city of Monza, north of Milan, in Italy. Built in 1922, it was the world's third purpose-built motor racing circuit after Brooklands and Indianapolis and the oldest in mainland Europe. The circuit’s biggest event is the Italian Grand Prix. With the exception of the 1980 running when the track was closed while undergoing refurbishment, the race has been hosted there since 1949. The circuit is also known as “the Temple of Speed” due to its long straights and high-speed corners. Built in the Royal Villa of Monza park in a woodland setting, the site has three tracks—the 5.793 km (3.600 mi) Grand Prix track, the 2.405 km (1.494 mi) Junior track, and a 4.250 km (2.641 mi) high speed oval track with steep bankings, which was left unused for decades and had been decaying until it was restored in the 2010s. The major features of the main Grand Prix track include the Curva Grande, the Curva di Lesmo, the Variante Ascari and the Curva Alboreto (formerly Curva Parabolica). The high speed curve, Curva Grande, is located after the Variante del Rettifilo which is located at the end of the front straight or Rettifilo Tribune, and is usually taken flat out by Formula One cars.

An 1880 oil on canvas, Still Life with Oranges, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. A work showing a strong influence from Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), it has strong tones and a contrast of hard and soft edges. The picture has been built up using very small brushstrokes. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France). Gauguin began painting in his free time. His Parisian life centered on the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Gauguin lived at 15, rue la Bruyère. Nearby were the cafés frequented by the Impressionists. Gauguin also visited galleries frequently and purchased work by emerging artists. He formed a friendship with Camille Pissarro and visited him on Sundays to paint in his garden. Pissarro introduced him to various other artists.