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Walking along an unusually empty Vatican corridor, with all its windows and watching outside eventually...

I feel so blessed to live in Rome. Today I could enter the Vatican Museums with not a minute queue.. So I’ve decided I’m going to make a tour of all the beautiful places I usually avoid because of mass tourism.. to be continued!

#photograpy #Rome #Vatican Museums #window #St Peter's dome #covid19 #personal #Vatican gardens

May I introduce my beloved cats Fifi & Cocò? little brothers love each other and love me. A love story made in heaven..

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Euskadi, País Vasco summer 2019

#Euskadi #Pais Vasco #photography #Bilbao #Burgos #san sebastian #personal #guggenheim #summer 2019 #holidays

Kuala Lumpur & Melaka, Easter holidays 2019

#kuala lumpur #melaka #OWN PERSONAL #photography #Holidays #landscape #cityscape #petronas

Another example of Latin synthesis. Maybe “rain, trees and nightmares” would have been more accurate.

screenshots from Britannia S01ep1

#screenshots #Britannia #tv series #my pick #Rome #Roman Empire #What is Rome

out & about in Tuscany..

#my trips #tuscany #photograpy #landscape #castel fiorentino #siena

I spent last weekend in Palermo where I visited the Palatine Chapel (1132), the royal chapel of the Norman kings of Sicily, situated on the ground floor at the center of the Palazzo Reale. Words cannot describe the magnificence of this art jewel, maybe photos can convey an idea... go and see with your eyes!

#Palermo #Cappella Palatina #Architecture #art #Middle Ages #personal

When I am in a city I never leave before visiting its cemetery, the dead say a lot about life in a place. Seven years after the big earthquake that destroyed most of its buildings and killed more than 300 people, life is slowly coming back in town eventually. In the cemetery though, nature is wild and half of the most ancient tombs lie broken down by the quakes and neglected. This add to the cemetery decadent charm. Cats love cemeteries and I knew I would find some of them in its inspiring paths, just us and stillness..

#L'Aquila #cemetery #earthquake #decadent #dilapidated #nature #photography #cats #personal

Going Up the Gran Sasso d'Italia

#hols 2016 #Gran Sasso #mountains #landscape #photograpy #personal

My visit to Rocca Calascio, a mountaintop fortress or rocca in the Province of L'Aquila in Abruzzo, Italy.

At an elevation of 1,460 metres (4,790 ft), Rocca Calascio is the highest fortress in the Apennines. Built of stone and masonry exclusively for military purposes and intended only to accommodate troops and never as residence for nobles, the fortress overlooks the Plain of Navelli at one of the highest points in the ancient Barony of Carapelle.

Many medieval films ( Ladyhawke...) are set there and you can see why..

#photography #landscape #castle #fortress #L'Aquila #Rocca Calascio #personal #hols 2016