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Pietro Brosio Gallery
"The Universal Peace", 1976, oil on canvas 100x70cm.
December 28, 2009
December 24, 2009
December 21, 2009
December 17, 2009
Torèt
In piedmontese dialect "torèt" means "small bull" (the bull is the Turin's symbol). The torèt are little public fountains, typical of Turin, with a bull head from which drinking water comes out. The torèt date back to the beginning of the 20th century and are about 700 in the city.
December 12, 2009
Porta Palatina
December 7, 2009
The Sanctuary of Consolata
The Sanctuary of Consolata, known simply as La Consolata, is one of Turin's most splendid example of the baroque. The Sanctuary dates back to Guarini and Juvarra (centuries XVII-XVIII) and in 1906 became papal basilica by the Pope Pio X. The worship of Saint Mary the Consoler dates back to the 4th century but received great impulse in 1104, when, on 20th June, the blind Jean Ravais, coming from Briançon after a vision, found the effigy of Consolata got lost and simultaneously recovered the sight. From then on the worship of Consolata has never been interrupted.
The superior altar, inaugurated in 1714, is due to Juvarra. In the middle, displayed among a series of angels, the Byzantine-inspired picture of Consolata.
The superior altar, inaugurated in 1714, is due to Juvarra. In the middle, displayed among a series of angels, the Byzantine-inspired picture of Consolata.
December 2, 2009
Ecological Day
In this image, a residential part of Turin at the foot of the hills. On the top over there, at a height of 660m, stands the Basilica di Superga (1731), designed by the architect Filippo Juvarra.
November 26, 2009
Sky Watch
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The sky is blue in this panorama of Turin, in which you can see the Alps, the Mole Antonelliana (1889, 167m), the characteristic houses of the Piazza Vittorio Veneto (1825), the river Po.
November 23, 2009
Monte dei Cappuccini in the fog
A climb of 15 minutes from Turin leads up to the Monte dei Cappuccini (240m) and the church of Santa Maria del Monte. Built in 1584 to a design by the architect Ascanio Vitozzi, the church adjoins a still-working Capuchin convent.
November 18, 2009
November 12, 2009
November 7, 2009
TAV 3
I often travel the Val di Susa (Susa Valley) and I can't help noticing more and more NO TAV signs.
The readers who are not interested in the NO TAV question will perhaps look upon these photographs as curious images.
NO TAV is a movement of the population of the valley against the construction of a railway line of high-speed train (TAV) Turin - Lyon, in the construction of the so-called Corridor 5 that should connect across eastern Europe (beginning from Kiev), with the major cities of western Europe (including Turin, Marseille, Barcelona to Lisbon).
If you like more information about NOTAV: AMBIENTE VALSUSA
The readers who are not interested in the NO TAV question will perhaps look upon these photographs as curious images.
NO TAV is a movement of the population of the valley against the construction of a railway line of high-speed train (TAV) Turin - Lyon, in the construction of the so-called Corridor 5 that should connect across eastern Europe (beginning from Kiev), with the major cities of western Europe (including Turin, Marseille, Barcelona to Lisbon).
If you like more information about NOTAV: AMBIENTE VALSUSA
November 3, 2009
The Dauphin Tower at Oulx
From the village of Oulx (1127m, Piedmont) you can reach the tower walking through a nice lane. The battlemented tower was part of the ancient Dauphin Castle the late evidences of which go back to 1499.
October 30, 2009
October 26, 2009
October 22, 2009
Sky Watch 23/10/2009
"The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them He writes in shining green
Across the world His thoughts serene"
Leonora Speyer (1872 - 1956)
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver"
Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
"There are rich counsels in the trees"
Herbert P. Horne (1864 - 1916)
October 19, 2009
October 17, 2009
October 13, 2009
Award
This composition of mine is an Award for all the nice blogger friends who gave me an Award some time ago. They are:
Louise of Potted Frog
Catherine of THE FIVE OF US
Paz of Paz's New York Minute
Sonia of LEAVES OF GRASS
Lily of Long Island Daily Photo
Ayamlin of A comfortable vacation
Fishing Guy of This is my blog
Nihal of CrossRoads
The Blond Duck of A Duck In Her Pond
Addy of Oh Addy!
Unseen Rajasthan of Unseen Rajasthan
October 8, 2009
Sky Watch 9/10/2009
"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains"
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
October 5, 2009
September 29, 2009
September 24, 2009
Sky Watch 25/9/2009
"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"
Louise Bogan (1897 - 1970)
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"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine"
Henry S. Haskins (1875 - 1957)
September 20, 2009
September 15, 2009
