Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 August 2013

The Pantheon, Rome, 24 August 2013


These photos can't approach what it is to experience The Pantheon for oneself....






















Friday, 8 January 2010

Views of The Duomo's roof, January 2010


You can take an elevator to the Duomo's roof and walk on it extensively. Here are some photos I took when I did exactly that on the fourth. As always, clicking on a photo will enlarge it.

The fourteen-foot gilded Madonna statue atop the highest spire


the roof's centre


looking down...


view onto the Piazza del Duomo


Thursday, 7 January 2010

The Duomo of Milan, January 2010

The front


A door


Close up of the door's sculpted surface


The Duomo's official website is here.


Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Milan at night, January 2010

The Duomo


Castello Sforzesco (Sforzesco Castle)
(and Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" was playing....)


entering Galleria Vittoria Emanuele II


Piazza del Duomo


To enlarge any photo, simply click on it.