Genoa

  • The ceiling at an entrance to a bank on Via Garibaldi a street known for many villas
  •  Christopher Columbus was from here! A castle …. you have to know me by now that where there’s a castle….  
A hand art exhibition was at the castle – these were just a few but it was pretty neat!

The views were pretty nice too!

There were several elevators in Genoa that took you to the top of the hills: one for the castle and one for an overlook.  The photo here shows the horizontal part of the elevator into the mountain. Then it goes upwards.

A villa on via Garibaldi

lots of clothes hanging especially Sunday mornings.

 Piazza De Ferrari is the main square of Genoa. Situated in the heart of the city between the historical and the modern center, Piazza De Ferrari is renowned for its fountain, which was restored in recent years along with a major restyling of the square. Wikipedia Porta Soprana is the best-known gate of the ancient walls of Genoa. After major restorations carried out between the 19th and 20th centuries, it has regained the appearance it supposedly had at the time of the construction of the so-called Barbarossa walls (1150 ca.).  **The above photo is one of the gates (not the Porto soprana)

San Lorenzo Church

The Port of Genoa is the major Italian seaport and it’s in competition with the ports of Marseille and Barcelona to be the biggest of the Mediterranean Sea. With a trade volume of 51.6 million tonnes, it is the busiest port of Italy by cargo tonnage. Wikipedia

 

Rome Italy V Ostia Antica Trastevere District and Rome at Night

 An authentic Roman road Ostia means mouth of the river where Rome once was  this map shows where the river once flowed but it changed course about the time of Rome’s fall mosaics in the uncovered Roman baths  Part of the Roman baths  theatre museum at Ostia Antica famous sculptures back in Rome below

Moses by Michelangelo

       

Rome Italy ll – Heart of Rome Walk

Walking Tour in the Heart of Rome 

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Starting at Campo de’Fiori where there is markets and (not Darth Vader)

The monument to the philosopher Giordano Bruno at the centre of the square.

Farnese Palace is one of the most important High Renaissance palaces in Rome. Owned by the Italian Republic, it was given to the French government in 1936 for a period of 99 years, and currently serves as the French embassy in Italy.

First designed in 1517 for the Farnese family, the building expanded in size and conception when Alessandro Farnese became Pope Paul III in 1534…. Wikipedia (there’s more info)

Piazza Navona

A church along the way…oh yes, it just happened to have 3 famous paintings in it by Caravaggio

The Roman Pantheon is the most preserved and influential building of ancient Rome. It is a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods of pagan Rome. As the brick stamps on the side of the building reveal it was built and dedicated between A.D 118 and 125.

Trevi Fountain

   Spanish Steps 

This concludes the tour  I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did

 

Rome Italy l Saint Peters Basilica Castel Sant’Angelo

A church I walked into the first night

Parking can be a problem here so you have to be creative!

Saint Peters Basilica

Castel Sant’Angelo
Hadrian’s mausoleum and a papal palace

Saint Michael the Archangel no, he’s not Saint Michael…well, maybe reincarnated.  He let people pose for photos and just stood there.

Florence (2)

Santa Maria Novella Church in Florence

On the way to Santa Maria del Fiore Florence’s Cathedral, the Duomo

At the top of the Bell tower; also you can see people at the top of the cupola where some of my photos were taken as I was also up there!

Insider the Baptistry which had a lot of renovation going on so not many photos

Coming back from Fiesole where the views from outside the city on this day were not that clear

Ed

Parma birthplace of Parmesan cheese

Santa Maria della Steccata

 

Baptistery
Located beside the Cathedral in Parma, this is one of the greatest examples of art in Italy. The octagonal monument is made of Verona marble and has four tiers of open loggias topped by a row of blind arches and crowning pinnacles, is the most outstanding example of the transition from Romanesque to Gothic art in Italy.

The Farnese Theatre

The Pilotta Palace is a Farnese palace and houses the National Gallery, the Farnese theatre, the archeological museum, the Bodoni museum and the Palatina Library.

This photo and one below were taken in the early morning hours prior to the breast and ovarian cancer fundraiser event. These are hundreds if not thousands of blankets covering piazza duomo parma

This was later in the day

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