A trip in Italy, Sept.–Oct. 2021
[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
One of the sights I most anticipated visiting was the ruins of the Mediæval castle of Rocca Calascio, the highest castle in all of the Apennines at 1,460 meters of altitude.
A single watch tower existed here in the 900s, then the fortress was built during the 1200s.
It is of course well known for having figured prominently in movies such as Ladyhawke (1984), The Name of the Rose (1990) and The American (2010).
It was as spectacular as it promised to be, and being there almost at sunset made the visit an unforgettable moment.
A strange octagonal church, dedicated to Santa Maria della Pietà, was built in the late 1500s on the mountaintop road to the castle.
Panorama made up of two handheld exposures, stitched together in PTGui.
A trip in Italy, Sept.–Oct. 2021
[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]
In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.
Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.
There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.
One of the sights I most anticipated visiting was the ruins of the Mediæval castle of Rocca Calascio, the highest castle in all of the Apennines at 1,460 meters of altitude.
A single watch tower existed here in the 900s, then the fortress was built during the 1200s.
It is of course well known for having figured prominently in movies such as Ladyhawke (1984), The Name of the Rose (1990) and The American (2010).
It was as spectacular as it promised to be, and being there almost at sunset made the visit an unforgettable moment.
A strange octagonal church, dedicated to Santa Maria della Pietà, was built in the late 1500s on the mountaintop road to the castle.
Panorama made up of two handheld exposures, stitched together in PTGui.