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Maldives The Squared Town

12/01/2013 19:45
Almost, as Male’ has a nearly rectangular shape. In has only two kilometres long by just over one wide, housing a hundred and fifty thousand people, roughly half the population of the Republic of Maldives, which is capital. In fact much of its surface area is land reclaimed from the sea. But there...

A Greek Lion in Venice

03/01/2013 16:40
Venice is full of wonderful terraces where to stay quietly sipping coffee or spritz and meanwhile keep an eye on life passing by just in front. There is one which is peculiar enough, despite not having any notable feature, its metal tables are ordinary, the premises has no special charm that...

... and some licenses about local names.

31/12/2012 18:53
Sometimes in dreams, I recreate in absolute detail my own neighbourhood, but the streets are transformed and change their name and appearance. Squares are rearranged in the new urban grid and even bars are transformed inside renewing their parishioners and bartenders. Interestingly, from one...

Some real characters ...

30/12/2012 16:51
Pratt pleased to invite to his stories personalities that had existed in real life, logically contemporary with the development of the Maltese adventures that have been interlinked seamlessly into the plot, especially when it is stitched in its historical context. This bring credibility even more...

From Istanbul to Mû

29/12/2012 18:26
At Meydani, Istanbul, 2009 The Golden House of Samarkand,  Mandraki Harbour, Rhodes, 1921- 2009 The Golden House of Samarkand, Odos Socrates, Rhodes, 1921- 2009 The Golden House of Samarkand,  Odos Ippoton, Rhodes, 1921- 2009 The Golden House of Samarkand,...

Fable of Venice

28/12/2012 19:00
Campo Santa Maria Mater Domini, 2010 Campo San Trovaso, 2009 Ponte Chiodo, 2007 Campo Santa Agnese, 2008 Campo Santa Agnese, 2010 Campo San Stefano 2010 Ponte di Trearchi, 2009 Bacino Orseolo, 2010 San Giorgio Maggiore, 2008 Campo di Santa Maria...

Cluedo in Picardy

27/12/2012 19:33
Fields have an indefinite colour in early fall between Corbie and Vaux-sur-Somme, in French Picardy. Plowed surfaces, ready for sowing, alternate with the remains of rapeseed and maize crops. Gentle hills following one another in the landscape with meandering Somme have a radically different...

Egypt The Megalomaniac Pharaoh

27/12/2012 18:35
Usermaatra Setepenra, the chosen of Ra, born to be a god, otherwise, he was deeply convinced. Son of Seti I and Queen Tuya was the third Pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. Rule Egypt for nearly seven decades between 1279 and 1213 BC with the name of Ramses II or Ramses Meriamon. Under his reign...

The Celts, A Mid-Winters's Morning Dream

22/12/2012 19:02
The Celts, Concerto in O minor for Harp and Nitroglycerin,1918; Monasterboice, Ireland, 1986  The Celts, A Mid-Winter’s Morning Dream, Stonehenge, Wiltshire, 1918; 2010 The Celts, A Mid-Winter’s Morning Dream, Stonehenge, Wiltshire, 1918; 2010 The Celts, A Mid-Winter’s...

The Celts, Under the Flag of Gold

22/12/2012 14:03
Caporetto On 23 May 1915 the Kingdom of Italy had joined the Western Allies of the Triple Entente declaring war on the Central Powers: Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. Isonzo river stream, in the Julian Alps, was the border between Italy and Austria, and the key that must...
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