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Trani is a seaport of Apulia, in southern Italy, on the Adriatic Sea, 40 kilometres (25 mi) by railway west-northwest of Bari. It is one of the capital cities of the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani.
Trani has lost its old city walls and bastions, but the 13th-century fort has been extensively restored as a museum and performance venue and is open to the public. Some of the streets in and around the Ghetto area remain much as they were in the medieval period, and many of the houses display more or less of Norman decoration.
Gallipoli is a small city in Apuglia, Italy, with a picturesque old town. It is home to 20,000 inhabitants and was founded by the Greeks in the 3rd century BC. "Kallipoli" means "beautiful city". The beaches are so blue and clear that they are called the "Maldivian beaches of Italy", Certainly one of the only SOOC I will ever publish.
Además de óperas, se presentaron en este maravilloso teatro, ballets y grandes conciertos. Han pasado por sus escenarios muchos artistas internacionales y nacionales claro... Tito Schipa, Nureyev, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, De Filippo, Muti, Fracci, Luciano Pavarotti..
Onofrio y Antonio Petruzzelli, comerciantes y constructores de barcos de Trieste, presentaron los diseños para el teatro y dos años después, en 1903 estaba terminado.
Durante la noche del 26 y 27 de octubre de 1991, el teatro fue completamente destruido por el fuego, resultado de un incendio provocado.
El Petruzzelli, reconstruido íntegramente con fondos públicos en 2008, fue devuelto a la ciudad de Bari el 7 de septiembre de 2009
En la actualidad es e uno de los más bellos teatros de ópera de Italia y el cuarto en cuanto a capacidad. Puede albergar hasta 4000 espectadores.
SASSI DI MATERA - The most spectacular City in Italy, the ancient neighbourhoods, known as sassi, are a series of grottoes carved out of limestone, teetering on the edge of a ravine.
Until the 1950s, Matera was a source of shame for Italy, a place of poverty, malaria and high rates of infant mortality, where people lived in caves without electricity, running water or sewage and indesperate conditions were people living in; between 1953 and 1968 about half of the 30,000 population were moved to new homes in the modern part of the city.
Dartford Warbler - Sylvia Undata
The Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata) iDs a typical warbler from the warmer parts of western Europe and northwestern Africa. It is a small warbler with a long thin tail and a thin pointed bill. The adult male has grey-brown upperparts and is dull reddish-brown below except for the centre of the belly which has a dirty white patch. It has light speckles on the throat and a red eye-ring. The sexes are similar but the adult female is usually less grey above and paler below.
Its breeding range lies west of a line from southern England to the heel of Italy (southern Apulia). The Dartford warbler is usually resident all year in its breeding range, but there is some limited migration.
The Dartford warbler was first described by the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant from two specimens that were shot in April 1773 on Bexley Heath near Dartford in Kent.
The species is naturally rare. The largest European populations of Sylvia undata are in the Iberian peninsula, others in much of France, in Italy and southern England and south Wales. In Africa it can be found only in small areas in the north, wintering in northern Morocco and northern Algeria.
In southern England the birds breed on heathlands, sometimes near the coast, and nest in either common gorse (Ulex europaeus) or common heather (Calluna
Dartford warblers are named for Dartford Heath in north west Kent, where the population became extinct in the early twentieth century. They almost died out in the United Kingdom in the severe winter of 1962/1963 when the national population dropped to just ten pairs. Sylvia undata is also sensitive to drought affecting breeding success or producing heath fires, as occurred during 1975 and 1976 in England when virtually all juveniles failed to survive their first year.
However, this species can recover well in good quality habitat with favourable temperatures and rainfall, thanks to repeated nesting and a high survival rate for the young. Indeed, they recovered in some areas of the UK, but numbers are once again on the decline in other regions of their natural range.
The range of the Dartford warbler is restricted to western and southern Europe. The total population in 2012 was estimated at 1.1–2.5 million breeding pairs. The largest numbers occur in Spain where there were believed to be 983,000–1,750,000 pairs. For reasons that probably include loss of suitable habitat, the Spanish population appears to be declining. The species is therefore classed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being Near threatened.
A period of climatic warming since 1963 has seen the UK population increase to "more than 2,500 pairs in 2006 (Wotton et al. 2009). Expansion into patches of structurally suitable habitat (up to an altitude of 400m), more northerly areas and away from the core of the range, from Dorset and Hampshire to Derbyshire and Suffolk, is likely to have been facilitated by milder winter weather (Wotton et al. 2009, Bradbury et al. 2011)... The Dartford warbler population in the UK is expected to continue to increase. However, future climate-based projections for the European range indicate that by 2080, more than 60% of the current European range may no longer be suitable (Huntley et al 2007). There is evidence that this is happening already, with severe declines in Spain and France (Green 2017). For this reason, the species is classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Global Red List. If the declines in southern Europe continue, the UK will become increasingly important for global conservation of this species".
Population:
UK breeding:
3,200 pairs
Lecce is a city in southern Italy and capital of the province of Lecce, with the second-highest population in the Apulia region. It is on the Salentine Peninsula, at the heel of the Italian Peninsula, and is over two thousand years old.
Because of its rich Baroque architecture, Lecce is nicknamed "The Florence of the South".
“Sono fatta di sogni e di mare.
Vivo di attimi che conservo e accarezzo di nascosto.
Mi piace viaggiare nelle emozioni.
Ho perso molti treni.
Ma quelli più importanti li ho guidati.
Adoro la compagnia, se è quella giusta.
Ma ho un debole per la solitudine, se il rumore è troppo.
Quando ho bisogno di una parola, ascolto il silenzio.
È la voce di ciò che ho dentro.”
Angelo De Pascalis
Taranto
is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy.
It is the capital of the Province of Taranto, serving as an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base.
Founded by Spartans in the 8th century BC during the period of Greek colonisation, Taranto was among the most important in Magna Graecia, becoming a cultural, economic and military power that gave birth to philosophers, strategists, writers and athletes such as Archytas, Aristoxenus, Livius Andronicus, Heracleides, Iccus, Cleinias, Leonidas, Lysis and Sosibius.
By 500 BC, the city was among the largest in the world, with a population estimated up to 300,000 people.
@Wikipedia
No disrespect to Brindisi’s Duomo but this was my favorite shot of it, I just liked the perfect frame that the passage way through the bell tower provided cut through the structure with the blue sky and wispy clouds as well the added bonus of the column marking the end of Appian Way all of that with a solitary figure wandering down to the seafront elements which made this my favorite shot of the visit.
The name Brindisi is actually used as a cheers, it means good fortune or luck which unfortunately the cathedral did share as a massive earthquake hit in 1743 that destroyed quite a bit of it but they had it mostly back up and running three years later and they seem to have constantly been in renovation mode right up until 2007.
The friendly city sits far enough off the beaten track to be a great deal for tourists with amazing eateries and great shopping all at non-touristic prices but still being central enough that it makes a great base for visiting other towns if you are driving the countryside making it a favorite in my books.
I took this on Sept 24, 2016 with my D750 and Nikon 24-85 f3.5-4.5 Lens at 42mm 1/640s f/4.5 ISO 250 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress