Travel

The Sicilian capital, called the “Kingdom of the sun” by invading Normans in the 12th century, has been a cultural melting pot since Phoenicians and Greeks fought over it in the 5th and 6th centuries BC.

Designed in the early 19th century by Pietro Nobile (better known for his Theseustempel in Vienna.

The place was terrifying Nuoro: the realm above and below, with the granite acropolis rising high above the village paved with river stones.

Piazze [In]visibili | Piazza del Duomo, L’Aquila […] It was the second time that she’d come to see that piazza.

In the early 1990s, when a team of American scholars proclaimed Todi the “ideal city”, on the basis of some forgotten parameters

The second leg of our virtual tour of Rome takes us to the National Gallery of Modern Art.

Piazze [In]visibili | Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome  Although I’m almost always moving when I’m in this piazza,

A piazza that is empty for a few minutes is beautiful, but then it becomes intolerable, because an empty piazza is unnatural.