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San Giminiano tower (Tuscany, Italy)
The town is also known as the "Manhattan of the Middle Ages". Competing families tried to build the highest campanile to impress each other.
- Date: 8 December 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: San Gimignano, Italy: gallery
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San Giminiano (Tuscany, Italy)
Here the plague raged in 1464 and 1631, starting a period of decadence for the town: the town-walls fell to pieces, the Medieval mansions fell into disrepair and no one had enough money to stop all this, as the richest and most important families had left the town because of the plague. Consequently, the architectural and artistic heritage remained untouched for four centuries, and the town preserved its medieval characteristic architecture intact.
- Date: 8 December 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: San Gimignano, Italy: gallery
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The Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi (Umbria, Italy)
The Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi (St Francis), the mother church of the Franciscan Order, is a World Heritage Site in Assisi, Italy.
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The lower basilica in Assisi (Umbria, Italy)
Brother Elia had designed the lower basilica as an enormous crypt with ribbed vaults. He had acquired his experience by building huge sepulchres out of hard rock in Syria.
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The Franciscan monastery Assisi (Umbria, Italy)
The Franciscan monastery (Sacro Convento) and the lower and upper church (Basilica inferiore e superiore) of St Francis were begun immediately after his canonization in 1228. Simone di Pucciarello donated the land for the church, a hill at the west side of Assisi, known as "Hill of Hell" (it. Collo d'Inferno - here the criminals were put to death). Today, this hill is aptly called "Hill of Paradise".
- Date: 8 December 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
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Perugia (Umbria, Italy)
Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber river, and the capital of the province of Perugia.
- Date: 8 December 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Perugia, Italy: gallery
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Perugia (Umbria, Italy)
The Priors' Palace, a superb expression of the city's municipal spirit, was built between the 13th and the 15th centuries.
- Date: 8 December 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Perugia, Italy: gallery
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San Giminiano main square (Tuscany, Italy)
San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in Tuscany, Italy, about a 35-minute drive northwest of Siena or southwest of Florence. It is mainly famous for its medieval architecture, especially its towers, which may be seen from several miles outside the town.
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The Guard of the Rock (San Marino, Italy)
The Guard of the Rock is a front-line military unit in the San Marino armed forces, a state border patrol, with responsibility for patrolling borders and defending them. In their role as Fortress Guards they are also responsible for the guarding of the Palazzo Pubblico in San Marino City, which is the seat of national Government. In this role they are the forces most visible to tourists, and known for their colourful ceremony of Changing the Guard. Under the 1987 statute the Guard of the Rock are all enrolled as 'Criminal Police Officers' (in addition to their military role) and act to assist the police in investigating major crime. The uniform of the Guard of the Rock is distinctively red and green in color.
- Date: 8 December 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: San Marino, San Marino: gallery
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Fiabilandia (Rimini, Italy)
This large amusement park, which is immersed in 150.000 m2 of greenery, is the perfect place for children, where fantasy and imagination blend to bring you a fun-filled day among captivating attractions and exciting shows.
- Date: 8 December 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Rimini, Italy: gallery
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Spello (Umbria, Italy)
Spello is an ancient town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Mt. Subasio.
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
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Spello (Umbria, Italy)
Spello is an ancient town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Mt. Subasio.
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
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Assisi (Umbria, Italy)
Assisi was hit by the devastating twin earthquakes that shook Umbria in 1997, but the recovery and restoration have been remarkable, although much remains to be done. Massive damage was caused to many historical sites, but the major attraction, the Basilica di San Francesco, reopened less than two years later.
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
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Assisi (Umbria, Italy)
Assisi is a town in Italy in province of Perugia, Italy, in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Mt. Subasio. It is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare (Chiara d'Offreducci), the founder of the Poor Clares. Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows of the 19th century was also born in Assisi.
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
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Valley (Umbria, Italy)
Umbria is a region of Central Italy, bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. This region is mostly hilly or mountainous. Its topography is dominated by the Apennines to the east, with the highest point in the region at Monte Vettore on the border of the Marche (2476 m = 8123 ft), and the Tiber valley basin, with the lowest point at Attigliano (96 m = 315 ft).
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
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Assisi (Umbria, Italy)
Now the site of many a pilgrimage, Assisi is linked in legend with its native son, St. Francis. The gentle saint founded the Franciscan order and shares honors with St. Catherine of Siena as the patron saint of Italy. He is remembered by many, even non-Christians, as a lover of nature (his preaching to an audience of birds is one of the legends of his life).
- Date: 18 August 2007
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Assisi, Italy: gallery
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Tyndaris (Sicily, Italy)
Tyndaris was situated on a bold and lofty hill standing out as a promontory into the spacious bay of the Tyrrhenian Sea bounded by the Punta di Milazzo on the east, and the Capo Calavià on the west, and was distant according to the Itineraries 36 miles from Messana (modern Messina). It was a Greek city, and one of the latest of all the cities in Sicily that could claim a purely Greek origin, having been founded by the elder Dionysius in 396 or 395 BCE.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Cefalù, Italy: gallery
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Solunto (Sicily. Italy)
Solunto was an ancient city of Sicily, one of the three chief Phoenician settlements in the island, situated on the north coast, about 18 km east of Panormus (modern Palermo), and immediately to the east of the bold promontory called Capo Zafferano.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Cefalù, Italy: gallery
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Solunto (Sicily. Italy)
t lay 200 m above sea level, on the southeast side of Monte Catalfano (380 m), in a naturally strong situation, and commanding a fine view. Some scholars contend that Soluntum and Solus were two different cities at close quarters, Soluntum, higher upon the hillside, being a later habitation displacing the earlier settlement of Solus, at a lower elevation. Its current site is at the località of Solanto in the comune of Santa Flavia.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Cefalù, Italy: gallery
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Solunto (Sicily. Italy)
Soluntum was one of the few colonies that the Phoenicians retained when they gave way before the advance of the Greek colonies in Sicily, and withdrew to the northwest corner of the island.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Cefalù, Italy: gallery
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The cloister of the abbey of Monreale (Sicily, Italy)
Monks' dormitory and frater, and the splendid cloister, completed about 1200 is well preserved, and is one of the finest Italian cloisters both for size and beauty of detail now extant. It is about 16 m², with pointed arches decorated with diaper work, supported on pairs of columns in white marble, 216 in all, which were alternately plain and decorated by bands of patterns in gold and colors, made of glass tesserae, arranged either spirally or vertically from end to end of each shaft.
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The Cathedral of Monreale (Sicily, Italy)
The Cathedral of Monreale is the greatest of all the monuments of the wealth and artistic taste of the Norman kings in northern Sicily. It was begun about 1170 by William II, and in 1182 the church, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was, by a bull of Pope Lucius III, elevated to the rank of a metropolitan cathedral. The church is a national monument of Italy and one of the most important artistical attractions of Sicily.
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Let's go for a ride! (Sicily, Italy)
Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A. of Pontedera, Italy -- to a full line of scooters and one of seven companies today owned by Piaggio -- now Europe's largest manufacturer of two-wheeled vehicles and the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer by unit sales.
- Date: 1 August 2006
- Photographer: Bakercake: gallery
- Location: Cefalù, Italy: gallery
- Tags: a for let's (sicily italy) go ride!
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From sea to Heaven! (Sicily, Italy)
The Mediterranean is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. It covers an approximate area of 2.5 million km² (965,000 sq mi), but its connection to the Atlantic (the Strait of Gibraltar) is only 14 km (9 mi) wide. In oceanography, it is sometimes called the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea or the European Mediterranean Sea to distinguish it from mediterranean seas elsewhere.
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I'm not selling it! (Cefalu, Sicilia, Italy)
On Saturdays there is a market, mercato, where you can buy food, vegetables, clothes, etc.