Marino is clearly not a tourist place but instead a traditional Italian living and working town with shabby narrow streets, care worn but brightly colour-washed buildings with ancient coats of paint which have blotched and blurred by successive harsh summers and the result is a glorious wash like water colours leaking in the rain, everything running, flaking and fusing.
Posted in Europe, History, Italy, Travel
Tagged Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Ciampino, Frascati, Italy, Life, Marino, Photography, Rome, Weekly Photo Challenge
Marino was clearly not a tourist place but instead a traditional Italian living and working town with shabby narrow streets, care worn but brightly colour-washed buildings with ancient coats of paint which have blotched and blurred by successive harsh summers and the result is a glorious wash like water colours in the rain, everything running, leaking and fusing.
Posted in Europe, History, Italy, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Ciampino, Frascati, Italy, Life, Marino, Photography, postaday, Rome, Weekly Photo Challenge
The Washing Lines of Marino, Italy
The streets between the houses are like deep gullies made brilliant by vibrant washing lines strung outside windows like bunting as though in anticipation of a parade or a carnival, stretching across the streets dripping indiscriminately and swaying gently backwards and forwards above the secret doorways and back alleys.
Posted in Europe, History, Italy, Natural Environment, Travel
Tagged Albano, Castel Gandolfo, Ciampino, Frascati, Italy, Life, Marino, Photography, Rome
Frascati, another of the Castelli Romani, is a busy dormitory town for nearby Rome and being the location of several international scientific laboratories is closely associated with science and technology. In 1943 it was heavily bombed and approximately half of its buildings, including many monuments, villas and houses, were destroyed. Many people died in an air raid on 22nd January 1944, the day of the battle of Anzio. Towards the end of the war the city was finally liberated from the Nazi German occupation on 4th June 1944 by the advancing American infantry.
“From the dome of St. Peter’s one can see every notable object in Rome… He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.” Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad
By mid afternoon when we crossed the River Tiber over the Ponte Sant’ Angelo like time travellers we had completed the ancient, the medieval, and the modern and now it was time for the religious.
Rome is the most important holy city in Christendom and St Peter’s Basilica at the heart of the Vatican City is the headquarters of the Catholic Church and is a place where some of the most important decisions in the history of Europe and the World have been made over the centuries. (A Basilica by the way is a sort of double Cathedral because it has two naves).
Posted in Cathedrals, Europe, Food, History, Hotels, Italy, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Albano, Italy, Lateran Treaty, Rome, St Peter's Basilica, Vatican, Victor Emmanuel Monument, Villa Altieri
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