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Varenna is a comune on Lake Como in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 kilometres north of Milan and about 20 kilometres northwest of Lecco.
Varenna was founded by local fishermen in 769, and was later allied of the commune of Milan. In 1126 it was destroyed by the rival commune of Como, and later received the refugees from the Isola Comacina, who had met the same fate (1169).
Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como.
Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps has made Como a tourist destination, and the city contains numerous works of art, churches, gardens, museums, theatres, parks, and palaces: the Duomo, seat of the Diocese of Como; the Basilica of Sant'Abbondio; the Villa Olmo; the public gardens with the Tempio Voltiano; the Teatro Sociale; the Broletto or the city's medieval town hall; and the 20th-century Casa del Fascio.
Enna
is a city and comune located roughly at the center of Sicily, southern Italy, in the province of Enna, towering above the surrounding countryside,
Enna is the highest Italian provincial capital.
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A Populus nigra L., commonly known as a Lombardy poplar or black poplar, grows alongside a house in Pine Mountain Club, Kern County, California. This resort community and golf course consists of private inholdings within Los Padres National Forest. Native to Europe, northwestern Africa, and western Asia, the tall, columnar, fast growing Lombardy poplar is used in landscaping and windbreaks and is not native to California. As seen here, it is beautiful during the fall.
Friends - The moment we left the pub ...
Funky boys in the 'Giardino della birra 2'
Via Matteo Maria Boiardo in the Turro district in the north of Milan
Lombardy, Italy 12.12.2018
Copyright for the unedited photo by the staff of 'Giardino della birra 2'
Freunde - Der Moment als wir den Pub verließen
Verrückte Jungs im 'Giardino della birra 2'
Via Matteo Maria Boiardo im Viertel Turro im Norden Mailands
Lombardei, Italien 12.12.2018
Copyright für das unbearbeitete Foto by the staff of 'Giardino della birra 2'
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„Gallery of the Ancients“ (Galleria degli antichi) in Sabbioneta, Lombardy, Italy. This is the lower level of the building. The "great corridor in the castle square", as it was originally called, was built between 1583 and 1586. It is an external structure in exposed stone consisting, on the lower level, of twenty-six arches. Total length is approximately 97 metres.
In 2008, Sabbioneta, together with Mantua was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, due to its exceptional nature as a newly founded city built in just over 30 years by Prince Vespasiano I Gonzaga and, as a recognition of its perfect example of practical application of Renaissance urban planning theories.
Thank you for your visits / comments / faves!
Palazzo Recalcati Prinetti, Milano
La mole ampia e imponente del palazzo già dei marchesi Recalcati si erge nella parte terminale di via Amedei, al civico 8. L’edificio si sviluppa su tre piani con forme eleganti e sobrie riscontrabili nelle modanature delle finestre, circondate da cornici di pietra e nelle mensole sagomate che reggono l’aggetto del tetto. Il portale d’ingresso è costituito da un’arcata a tutto sesto circondata da una cornice di pietra. Oltrepassato l’androne voltato a botte ci si immette nei due cortili di gusto bramantesco realizzati all’inizio del XVI secolo; il primo cortile, discreto e raccolto, è connotato dalla presenza di arcate tamponate sostenute da paraste.
Ai piani superiori si aprono eleganti balconcini dalla balaustra in ferro battuto.
Nella parete di fondo il porticato a loggia immette nel secondo cortile, vasto ed arioso, impostato sulla scansione di colonne in serizzo con elaborati capitelli corinzi recanti scudi e targhe e decorazioni a putti, fiori e cartigli.
Le arcate a tutto sesto sono profilate in cotto e presentano
chiavi in pietra fogliate o recanti decorazioni a mascheroni e ad aquile. La pavimentazione in ciottoli alternati bianchi e neri forma un disegno ottagonale da cui si originano riserve laterali. Le finestre del piano nobile sono corredate da cornici dalle forme settecentesche.
Il palazzo già Recalcati, poi Litta, in seguito Prinetti,
dal maggio 1921 al giugno 1925 ospitò il Circolo d’Arte e d’Alta
Coltura, un’istituzione nata con l’intento di creare un centro
culturale e artistico cittadino che avesse tra gli scopi quello di
allestire esposizioni artistiche dedicate a opere d’arte conservate in collezioni private milanesi ma non solo.
Sirmione castle on Lake Garda, Verona, Italy. Taken from an upper terrace of a restaurant. I ate dinner at the restaurant only to take this photo, the table I had was the closest balcony to the moat around the castle, but sadly the food was not memorable. The village is supposed to be closed to vehicular traffic beyond the gate at right, but locals and tourists staying at the village are exempt, which still means plenty of car traffic in the supposedly car free village. I stayed 20 minutes drive away, hotels in the center of Sirmione are very very expensive.
Edit: Placing on the map, I realized that this bitch actually belongs to Brescia, Lombardy, not Verona, Veneto. I also laughed when I saw the name of the freeway between Brescia and Verona is "Autostrada della Serenissima"! ..... NOTHING is "most serene" about that road, where cars race to the DEATH between slow moving trucks,....(I know, I know, it references the serene lagoons of Venice at the end of the road)...
再次回首遠望瓦倫納，一個充滿休閒與浪漫氣息的小鎮，就如此靜靜的依靠在蒼翠壯麗的山腳下，山頂上的倫巴底女王，正在思考著下一波敵人來臨之前，她該準備什麼樣的奇襲來迎敵，而山下的子民，則正開心的喝著酒唱著歌呢^^
但隨著歲月流去，彷彿都漸漸的淹沒在一片蒼藍中了~
In Varenna, lake Como, Lombardy, Italy ~
For history buffs like myself, Scaliger Castle in Sirmione is a rare treat. Dating to the thirteenth century, it is one of the few surviving perfectly preserved harbor castles of its kind. Once common, many of these fortifications were eventually torn down in later centuries in order to make room for larger harbor facilities.
Venice included Sirmione in its Republic in 1405, and the ruling nobles then increased Scaliger's fortifications. The fortress is totally surrounded by water, prodiving a formidable defense which once sheltered the Scaliger fleet. Thanks to its strategical location as a border outpost, Sirmione became a crucial defence and control garrison.
If you are curious, here's the website: Scaliger Castle
Sirmione itself makes for a wonderful stop in Northern Italy. It is a comune in Lombardy, located on the Sirmio peninsula that divides the lower part of Lake Garda. This small town features both Scaliger Castle and the Grottoes of Catullus, the ruins of a Roman villa. Besides these sites, Sirmione has shops to peruse, a lakeside park and a really good gelato shop serving huge portions adjacent the castle.
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