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! 
admin July 14th, 2007
Nearby “Passo Colla”, 1000m of height on sea level, past 4km of rough road you can find an old abandoned small village called “Dugara”. Some houses are completely broken, only the walls left with some ivy growing on them. Others are still in good conditions, only waiting for someone to come there and open their windows again, to gain a new life.
All around, nature and a weird silence. You can only hear the sound of a nearby water fountain. Some birds, the wind that moves leaves. Apart for that nothing but silence.
The life goes on, and the bells of the small church located in village’s entrance are ready to sing again.
the small chapel nearby village entrance
closeup of an ivy climbing on the old walls
a group of wrecks
admin July 5th, 2007
Pontremoli is a nice old town in the “Lunigiana”, a zone of Tuscany. It is not far from the famous “Cinque Terre” national park, and also near many other interesting places like Lucca, Viareggio, and so on.
It is also close to where we live now, so a sunday of december we decided to take a short trip there. We arrived and the feeble winter sun was lighting the town in a wonderful way. We walked up to a hill where you can see the whole town, and someone had hang up some clothes to dry them. I decided to take a picture of it, the one you can see above.
I like the result very much. It has a sort of “old feeling” on it, typical of the 1960-70 years. Old houses, the climate of desperation and poverty after the world war, where everyone had to restart their lives from zero.