CNN Site Map for Section Europe (Galleries) for March - 2012
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- 2012-03-29A "Guardia Civil" police officer walks along desmonstrators during a day of national strike in central Madrid.
- 2012-03-28A study for Paul Cezanne's master work "The Card Players," missing for decades, has been rediscovered among the paintings of a Texas art collector, and will be sold at auction later this year.
- 2012-03-27August 1995: Princess Diana and her son Harry attend an event commemorating VJ Day.
- 2012-03-26Polish film director Lech Majewski has brought Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting "The Way to Calvary" onto the big screen in new film "The Mill and the Cross." Actor Rutger Hauer plays the artist.
- 2012-03-23British lawmakers want to rename St Stephen's Tower -- known to tourists around the world as "Big Ben" -- after Queen Elizabeth II.
- 2012-03-22"Still life with Meadow Flowers and Roses," a painting dismissed for years as the work of an unknown artist has been identified as a piece by Vincent Van Gogh.
- 2012-03-20A book missing from Archbishop Marsh's Library in Dublin for 100 years has been returned. It was published in Basel, Switzerland, in 1538, and had been in the Dublin library's collection since 1701.
- 2012-03-20Though it is growing and changing all the time, Beijing's imperial history is still visible today.
- 2012-03-19French Interior Minister Claude Gueant confirms shooting suspect Mohammed Merah is dead after a siege lasting more than 31 hours on Thursday, March 22.
- 2012-03-15The European Fine Art Fair in Mastricht is one of the highlights of the art world calendar, where collectors can browse an array of fine art objects spanning 7,000 years. This terraccotta lion by Florentine artist Giovan Battista Foggini dates from 1715 a
- 2012-03-13Marine Le Pen sings the French national anthem at her party's convention in Lille on February 18, 2012.
- 2012-03-08The complete DNA of a female western lowland gorilla called Kamilah (left) has been mapped by scientists, completing the set of genomes for all great apes (humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans).
- 2012-03-08In the "Waving Wall," designers and water crisis campaigners Bloo Nation highlight the considerable water footprint linked to the production of day-to-day goods like coffee, jeans and paper.
- 2012-03-06The collection of American art at the newly renovated American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a chronoloigcal exploration of the nation's major historical events as well as a celebration of its art.
- 2012-03-06The new Lamborghini Aventador model is shown ahead of the 82nd Geneva Car Show.
- 2012-03-06As the U.S. election race heats up, blogger Pamela Poole says Parisians are enjoying the spectacle, finding it simultaneously entertaining and horrifying.
- 2012-03-02While his nation waded deeper into the Syrian civil war, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, spent his 63rd birthday on the ice Wednesday, October 7, playing hockey with NHL stars and various Russian officials and tycoons in Sochi. For years, Russia
- 2012-03-01Thought to be one of the most famous panel paintings in the world, the Ghent Altarpiece, completed in 1432, can now be viewed on a specially-designed, open source website.