A complete photo reportage of Tuscan coast where marble is really important from different points of views.
We start from Alpi Apuane, with its peaks,trekking paths, villages and mountain huts.
Then we visit the marble caves where we find tourists and miners.
We get to Carrara, a town whose economy lives on marble and at last we reach Pietrasanta where marble turns into art. Classic Versilia A journey along the northern coast of Tuscany and its surroundings.
We visit the fashionable Forte dei Marmi, the quiet Camaiore.
Viareggio with its beaches and its Art Nouveau buildings. The poetry of Massaciuccoli lake which is well-known either for Puccini festival or for a natural enviroment to be explored.
The southern mountain of Tuscan, the Monte Amata is a big vulcanic dome, called "the island" because his special culture, nature, tradition and history.
Epyrus is considered "another" Greece with high mountains, forests and old villages builded with wood and stones, alpine lakes, fresh rivers and a quiet lifestyle. A region to discover, without forgetting some historycal places of Indipendence War.
A journey to explore the northernmost archipelago in Italy.
Elba Island is the most important and the third largest island in Italy. The Tuscan archipelago lies off Tuscan coasts between Livorno and Grosseto provinces.
Nature,sea, villages, people.
The "Cammino de Santiago" rediscovered its medieval vitality.
The town preserves a very charming historical centre where in summer many pilgrims flood into, as in the past ages.
This year is a jubilar year because of the patron's day festival (25 July).
It is on Sunday and it will be the reason for a big "fiesta"
The photo-reportage is also about:
The Cammino de Santiago hystorical places and pilgrims.
The Italians' "Hospital",
an early Middle Age dwelling managed by Italians in Meseta region.
Kerala is the country situated in south-west India.
It is famous for its backwaters, beaches and its ports founded in the Roman and pre-Roman periods.
The journey starting from Cochin, through Trivandum and the backwaters, reaches the southern beaches and ends at Kanyakumari, a pitoresque place sacred to Hindu people, situated in the farthest part of the Indian continent.
A bloody ritual use in a small village of Tirrenic side of Calabria.
They use during a friday and saturnday procession of easter celebrations, to beat their legs just to reaching bloody. That's for thanking the Lady for a grace or asking somethings. They run dressed as penitent, followed by an allegoric characters that represent the Saint Spirit and by another man that pour a whine on the ingiouriuos. The blood is everywhere and they mark whit this some places that they ask a "protection".
Rotterdam is the biggest port in Europe, and an immense laboratory of novelty.
A place that seems to be without past.
A mixture of future and present as you can see in the many avant-garde architectures, in the many changes of the old harbour spaces transformed in the city center.
Even in the numerous museums the avant-garde art is dominant.