February 15th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Italy, Photo | Leave A Comment »
Vatican City or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of approximately 44 hectares (110 acres), and a population of just over 800. This makes Vatican City the smallest [...]
February 13th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Italy, Photo | Leave A Comment »
Rome’s history spans two and a half thousand years. It was the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, which was the dominant power in Western Europe and the lands bordering the Mediterranean for over seven hundred years from the 1st century BC until the 7th century AD and [...]
February 8th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Italy, Photo | Leave A Comment »
The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering. Occupying a site just east of the Roman Forum, its construction [...]
January 31st, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Italy, Photo | Leave A Comment »
The Ponte Vecchio is a Medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. The Ponte Vecchio’s two neighbouring bridges are the Ponte Santa [...]
January 29th, 2012 | by admin - curator - The Gallery | published in All Photographs, Europe, Italy, Photo | Leave A Comment »
The Piazza del Duomo (“Cathedral Square”) is a wide, walled area at the heart of the city of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, recognized as one of the main centers for medieval art in the world. Partly paved and partly grassed, it is dominated by four great religious edifices: the Duomo (cathedral), the Campanile (the cathedral’s free [...]