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Cultural Moment

GET /mashup/cultural/moment

Generate a unique cultural snapshot for any city: combines current weather, a random museum artwork, a random classic poem, elevation data, light pollution levels, and sunrise/sunset times into an atmospheric moment. Perfect for creative apps, daily inspiration features, and cultural tourism tools.

Parameters

city required

City name (e.g. oslo, paris, tokyo)

Example Requests

Basic usage
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/mashup/cultural/moment?city=paris"

Live Response

{
  "artwork_of_the_moment": {
    "artist": "Iran\npossibly Shiraz",
    "date": "Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370–1507), mid–15th century",
    "department": "Arts of Asia",
    "id": 70593,
    "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/85309ed9-b889-16fb-2fc7-57f1c97c3820/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
    "medium": "Opaque watercolor and gold on paper",
    "title": "Garden Scene"
  },
  "city": "paris",
  "country": "FR",
  "elevation": {
    "dataset": "srtm90m",
    "elevation": 44.0,
    "latitude": 48.8566,
    "longitude": 2.3522
  },
  "generated_at": "2026-04-09T08:54:31.215977Z",
  "light_pollution": {
    "aurora_suitability": "poor",
    "bortle_class": 9,
    "bortle_description": "Inner-city sky. Only the moon, planets, and a few bright stars visible.",
    "disclaimer": "This is an estimate based on nearby population density, not satellite measurements. Actual light pollution may vary due to terrain, local lighting, and atmospheric conditions.",
    "latitude": 48.8566,
    "longitude": 2.3522,
    "methodology": "Bortle class estimated from weighted population within 100km. Closer cities contribute more. Accurate for major cities and remote areas; less precise for suburbs and small towns.",
    "naked_eye_stars": "<20",
    "nearby_population": {
      "nearby_cities": [
        {
          "country": "",
          "distance_km": 0.0,
          "name": "nearby city",
          "population": 11000000
        }
      ],
      "nearest_city": "nearby city",
      "nearest_distance_km": 0.0,
      "total_population": 11000000,
      "weighted_population": 11000000
    },
    "recommendations": [
      "Drive 30-60 minutes away from the city for significantly darker skies",
      "Urban light pollution makes stargazing very difficult from this location"
    ],
    "sky_quality": "very_bad",
    "sqm_estimate": 17.0
  },
  "mood": "pleasant",
  "poem_of_the_moment": {
    "author": "Walt Whitman",
    "line_count": "40",
    "lines": [
      "THESE, I, singing in spring, collect for lovers,",
      "(For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and joy?",
      "And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)",
      "Collecting, I traverse the garden, the world—but soon I pass the gates,",
      "Now along the pond-side—now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,",
      "Now by the post-and-rail fences, where the old stones thrown there, pick’d from the",
      "  fields,",
      "  have accumulated,",
      "(Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones, and partly cover",
      "    them—Beyond",
      "  these I pass,)",
      "Far, far in the forest, before I think where I go,",
      "Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,",
      "Alone I had thought—yet soon a troop gathers around me,",
      "Some walk by my side, and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck,",
      "They, the spirits of dear friends, dead or alive—thicker they come, a great crowd,",
      "    and I",
      "  in the",
      "  middle,",
      "Collecting, dispensing, singing in spring, there I wander with them,",
      "Plucking something for tokens—tossing toward whoever is near me;",
      "Here! lilac, with a branch of pine,",
      "Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pull’d off a live-oak in Florida, as it",
      "    hung",
      "  trailing",
      "  down,",
      "Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage,",
      "And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pondside,",
      "(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me—and returns again, never to separate",
      "    from",
      "  me,",
      "And this, O this shall henceforth be the token of comrades—this Calamus-root shall,",
      "Interchange it, youths, with each other! Let none render it back!)",
      "And twigs of maple, and a bunch of wild orange, and chestnut,",
      "And stems of currants, and plum-blows, and the aromatic cedar:",
      "These, I, compass’d around by a thick cloud of spirits,",
      "Wandering, point to, or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,",
      "Indicating to each one what he shall have—giving something to each;",
      "But what I drew from the water by the pond-side, that I reserve,",
      "I will give of it—but only to them that love, as I myself am capable of loving."
    ],
    "title": "These, I, Singing in Spring."
  },
  "success": true,
  "sun": {
    "astronomical_twilight_begin": "2026-04-09T03:16:26+00:00",
    "astronomical_twilight_end": "2026-04-09T20:27:53+00:00",
    "civil_twilight_begin": "2026-04-09T04:38:46+00:00",
    "civil_twilight_end": "2026-04-09T19:05:33+00:00",
    "day_length": 48287,
    "nautical_twilight_begin": "2026-04-09T03:59:09+00:00",
    "nautical_twilight_end": "2026-04-09T19:45:10+00:00",
    "solar_noon": "2026-04-09T11:52:10+00:00",
    "sunrise": "2026-04-09T05:09:46+00:00",
    "sunset": "2026-04-09T18:34:33+00:00"
  },
  "weather": {
    "humidity": 68,
    "temperature_c": 17.2,
    "wind_speed_kmh": 2.3
  }
}