admin January 5th, 2007
A place that I have many fond memories of is the town of Gengenbach, in the middle of Baden-Wurttemberg and the Black Forest. It’s a medieval town that was destroyed by an enormous fire and kept faithful to the original plans when rebuilt. Like it is written in the official site, “in 1955 the part of the city that’s inside the city walls was declared a national monument” and if you have the good fortune to visit it you will be pleasantly surprised.
The above photo is the Kinzig river, taken from the bridge that precedes the entrance to the marvelous town. Coming up are some photos of the buildings themselves.
admin January 3rd, 2007
I happened to see this extraordinary spectacle of nature purely by coincidence as I was traveling around the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines… close to a small town called “Grizzana” (famous for being the hometown of the italian painter Morandi). It was a cold day in January, and for some reason a thick blanket of fog (low clouds or something else?) seemed to form a type of sea that I could admire from the height of one of the overlooking summits.
admin January 1st, 2007
It is often defined as “an angle of land between Tuscany and Liguria”.
It is, in fact, just like that. Val di Taro is situated to the southeast of Parma, and it stretches out until it becomes a thin strip of land that is located between Liguria and Tuscany (the Lunigiana region in particular). It’s also possible to reach it from Borgo Val di Taro (also called Borgotaro), Pontremoli (a beautiful Tuscan town), Chiavari or Sestri Levante (in Liguria, close to Cinque Terre).
Above, a curious tree with semi-human form!