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Alcuni angoli del mio paesello sono di assoluta bellezza, una "bomboniera", al crepuscolo, il piccolo giardino di Palazzo Pompei, con gli agapanthus in fiore e gli alberelli di arancio amaro (Citrus × sinensis). Sullo sfondo uno scorcio del millenario Castello medievale.
Cari amici vi abbraccio tutti augurandovi un meraviglioso weekend :))
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La Basilica di San Vitale è uno dei monumenti più importanti dell'arte paleocristiana in Italia, in particolar modo per la bellezza dei suoi mosaici. Fondata da Giuliano Argentario su ordine del vescovo Ecclesio, la basilica a pianta ottagonale fu consacrata nel 548
dall'arcivescovo Massimiano.
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This kind of scene is around every corner of the French and Italian Riviera -- crumbling castles and fortresses sitting on cliffs along the Mediterranean. Not sure the exact location but the castle was a youth hostel at the time when I wandered Europe. Now, the developers have probably turned it into high rise condos or mega hotels. Digitized slide of long ago.
The secondary line between Empoli and Siena in Toscana is one of the last diesel lines in Italy that sees frequent loco hauled trains. Train R18207, one of the hourly regional services between Firenze and Siena, passes an old industrial setting at Garaniolo. D445.1090 haules the train.
Gubbio is an Italian town and comune in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennines.
The city's origins are very ancient. The hills above the town were already occupied in the Bronze Age. As Ikuvium, it was an important town of the Umbri in pre-Roman times, made famous for the discovery there in 1444 of the Iguvine Tablets, a set of bronze tablets that together constitute the largest surviving text in the Umbrian language. After the Roman conquest in the 2nd century BC – it kept its name as Iguvium – the city remained important, as attested by its Roman theatre, the second-largest surviving in the world.
Gubbio became very powerful in the beginning of the Middle Ages. The town sent 1000 knights to fight in the First Crusade under the lead of Girolamo of the prominent Gabrielli family, who according to an undocumented local tradition, they were the first to reach the Church of the Holy Sepulchre when Jerusalem was seized (1099).
The following centuries in Gubbio were turbulent, featuring wars against the neighboring towns of Umbria. One of these wars saw the miraculous intervention of its bishop, Ubald, who secured Gubbio an overwhelming victory (1151) and a period of prosperity. In the struggles of Guelphs and Ghibellines, the Gabrielli, such as the condottiero Cante dei Gabrielli (c. 1260–1335), fought for the Guelph faction, supporting the papacy. As Podestà of Florence, Cante exiled Dante Alighieri, ensuring his own lasting notoriety.
In 1350 Giovanni Gabrielli, count of Borgovalle seized power as the lord of Gubbio. His rule was short, and he was forced to hand over the town to Cardinal Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, representing the Papal states (1354).
A few years later, Gabriello Gabrielli, the bishop of Gubbio, also proclaimed himself lord of Gubbio (Signor d'Agobbio). Betrayed by a group of noblemen which included many of his relatives, the bishop was forced to leave the town and seek refuge at his home castle at Cantiano.
With the decline of the political prestige of the Gabrielli, Gubbio was thereafter incorporated into the territories of the House of Montefeltro. The lord of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro rebuilt the ancient Palazzo Ducale in Gubbio, incorporating in it a studiolo veneered with intarsia like his studiolo at Urbino. The maiolica industry at Gubbio reached its apogee in the first half of the 16th century, with metallic lustre glazes imitating gold and copper.
Gubbio became part of the Papal States in 1631, when the della Rovere family, to whom the Duchy of Urbino had been granted, was extinguished. In 1860 Gubbio was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy along with the rest of the Papal States.
The name of the Pamphili family, a great papal family, originated in Gubbio then went to Rome under the pontificate of Pope Innocent VIII (1484–1492), and is immortalized by Diego Velázquez and his portrait of Pope Innocent X.