People just drink on the street, in the warm night, as impromptu al fresco dancefloors form around lorries with massive sound systems blaring.
However, the fresco art form is not entirely consigned to the past with artists in the Italian town of Pisa, keeping it alive.
If you're up for cheese, there is queso fresco, which forms into a kind of fluffy quenelle in the hot broth, indistinguishable from tofu.
At Stabiae even the slave quarters might contain some form of fresco decoration.
The sopes, which consist of homemade corn tortillas topped with beans, sour cream, queso fresco, and some form of meat (spicy pork, for instance, but, alas, no tripas), have synergy; they're far tastier than the sum of their parts.
He hired Bronzino as his court artist and charged him with producing political advertising in the form of frescos and tapestries, and with supplying a line of dynastic portraits.
The Catacombs of Rome contain most of the surviving Christian art of the Early Christian period, mainly in the form of frescos and sculpted sarcophagi.
Despite its predominantly military character, the castle is one of the few sites where Crusader art (in the form of frescoes) has been preserved.
Initially the men, arrested after they were seen filming the fresco and overheard discussing some form of attack, were thought to be associated with Al Qaeda, but the police later closed that line of inquiry.
With framed copies of oil paintings forming a kind of patchwork fresco above some tables, Amalia means to dazzle the eye, much like its next-door neighbor, the Dream hotel.
