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Quebec City and its surroundings

admin July 22nd, 2008

a view of Québec cityI’ve always been fascinated by Canada and it’s nature: big rivers, green valleys, great lakes, and so on. But I never actually saw anything about the towns, the architecture, and so on.
Yesterday, while I was looking up for a friend some informations about Canada, I stumbled upon lots of sites describing all the various cities and in particular the region of Quebec and its omonymous town.

First of all it’s a very populated town, second largest one after Montreal. Then, I discovered about Château Frontenac, a historic hotel which dominates the city skyline and it’s really a wonderful piece of architecture!

Also, I didn’t really know but the Montmorency Falls are actually about 30m higher than the more famous Niagara Falls! they’re located very close to Quebec city itself, and from the pictures I saw around the net they are really a marvelous place to visit. I surely will be booking myself a room in one of the Quebec City Hotels Canada to view personally all those wonders… it’s really worth it!

The scary picture!

admin April 27th, 2008

Today’s picture is a bit scary… it is a photo from my trip to Dozza, you can find my blog entry here. The fortress once was a prison, and there are several scary rooms with instruments of torture. I don’t like particularly this kind of stuff, however from the historical point of view can be interesting. If you look carefully on the walls, you can even see some carved texts or numbers on them, made by the prisoners.

Beside that, remember that the region around is well-known for good wines and food, so don’t be too much impressed by the photo! :D

Curious church entrance

admin September 3rd, 2007

church skull

Took this picture while I was on a short trip in the natural park of “Cinque Terre”, in the italian region of Liguria. It is at the same time quite fun and bizarre, because of the skull in center of the icon above what is a church entrance! yes exactly, that is a closeup of a church entrance in a small town (I forgot the name, not sure if was Monterosso or Manarola).

I don’t know latin well but from what I can understand the text says something like “guild of prayers and deaths”! very scary…! :D

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