Pietro Brosio Gallery: San Michele Abbey

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8 February 2013

Sky Watch (Episode 31)

The weather is changing at the Sacra di San Michele.
The San Michele Abbey is an imposing monastery in the Susa Valley (Piedmont) at the top of the Monte Pirchiriano (962m). Built in the late 10th century for the Benedictine monks, it has been an important study center; now it's in the hands of the Rosminian fathers.

Happy Sky Watch!

16 August 2011

Ferragosto in the mountains

The abbey of San Michele (10th century, 962m)

5 December 2010

Mountain Beauty

Sacra di San Michele Abbey (10th century, 962m, Susa Valley)

4 June 2010

Sky Watch 4/6/2010

Sacra di San Michele Monastery (10th century, 962m, Susa Valley)

Happy Sky Watch

9 May 2009

Tav 2

On the Mount Musiné

In the cloudy sky

Near the monastery Sacra di San Michele (10th century)

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).

My previous post about NO TAV: here

Where have the flowers gone?

Where have all the flowers gone,
long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone,
long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Gone to young girls, every one!
When will they ever learn,
when will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone,
long time passing?
Where have all the young girls gone,
long time ago?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone to young men, every one!
When will they ever learn,
when will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone,
long time passing?
Where have all the young men gone,
long time ago?
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone to soldiers, every one!
When will they ever learn,
when will they ever learn?
And where have all the soldiers gone,
long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone,
long time ago?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, every one!
When will they ever learn,
when will they ever learn?
And where have all the graveyards gone,
long time passing?
Where have all the graveyards gone,
long time ago?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, every one!
When will they ever learn,
oh when will they ever learn?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls picked them, every one.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Pete Seeger, 1956

Pietro Brosio Gallery

"The Universal Peace", 1976, oil on canvas 100x70cm.

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