Thursday, June 08, 2006

ROMA - CASTLES, CHURCHES AND TEMPLES - DECEMBER 1975

ALMOST AS MANY AS THE PINES (RESPIGHI)


"SAINT ANGELO CASTLE"


"SAINT ANGELO CASTLE - Facing the dragon"


"SAN GIOVANNI IN LATERANO - The lateral square"


"SAN GIOVANNI IN LATERANO - The Main Façade"


"SAN GIOVANNI IN LATERANO - The Cloister"


"SAINT PAUL OUTSIDE THE WALLS"


"TEMPLE OF VESTA"

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

ROMA CITTÁ APERTA - DECEMBER 1975

ROSSELLINI, FELLINI, ANTONIONI, ROMA ETERNA!


"CONSTANTINO ARCH - circa 315 d.C. - Better go there to see the details"


"COLISEUM - The greatest amphitheatre of the antiquity"


"FORUM ROMANO - Quality of life 2000 years ago"




"PALATINO"


"PIAZZA DEL CAMPIDOGLIO - The fabulous square designed by Michelangelo, with the statue of Marcus Aurelius"


"FORUM TRAJANUM - Monica Vitti?"


"FORUM TRAJANUM - A Shopping Mall «avant la lettre» - 150 small stores: surprise?"


"IL VITTORIANO - Monument to Vittorio Emmanuelle, Altare della Patria, aka «The Typewriter»"


"PANTHEON - The most fabulous and best preserved monument of Ancient Rome - 27BC"


"PYRAMID OF CAIUS CESTIUS - It's Rome, no doubt"

Monday, June 05, 2006

SNOW IN PORTUGAL - DECEMBER 1975

FROM LISBON TO SERRA DA ESTRELA


"TAGUS RIVER - Near Constancia"


"ZEZERE RIVER - The water you drink in Lisbon"


"CAPINHA - Home to Di's great-grandparents"


"COVILHA - On the shadow of the mountains"


"SERRA DA ESTRELA - Penhas da Saúde"


"SERRA DA ESTRELA - Old glacier formation"


"SERRA DA ESTRELA - THE CAR"


"SERRA DA ESTRELA - 2000 meters, the highest point in Continental Portugal"

Sunday, June 04, 2006

SOUTHERN PORTUGAL - SEPTEMBER 1975

ALWAYS SUMMER IN ALGARVE


"OURA - There was still land, not so much concrete, by the sea"


"OURA - Nice views"


"FALESIA BEACH - Golden sand, cristal clear water, blue sky, no one there"


"FALESIA BEACH - 7.30 pm, time to go home"


"FALESIA BEACH - Before the resorts"

Friday, June 02, 2006

ITALY - DOLOMITES - AUGUST 1975

SUMMER IN THE DOLOMITES


LAKE MISURINA - A beautiful spot, even with the clouds"


"LAKE MISURINA - DOLOMIA, a particular type of rock, different from all the rest"


"LAKE MISURINA - The photo"


"CORTINA D'AMPEZZO - Missing the snow?"


"CORTINA D'AMPEZZO - Nice façade"

Thursday, June 01, 2006

AUSTRIA - VIENNA - PALACES, PARKS - 1975

LOOKING AT KLIMT, LISTENING TO STRAUSS


"SCHÖNBRUNN - A magnificent world of baroque"


"SCHÖNBRUNN - Neptun fountain and the Gloriette"


"SCHÖNBRUNN - On the footsteps of Sissi"


"BELVEDERE - See the paintings from Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele"


"PRATER - THE RIESENRAD - A moving tradition"


"DONAUTURM - Revolving restaurant: Leberknödelsuppe, Wiener Schnitzel and Apfelstrudel"


"STADTPARK - Dancing with Strauss (before the gilding of the statue) - An der schönen blauen Donau"