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PLACES / VISITING MARSEILLE (FRANCE): THE OLD PORT AS A “MIRROR” OF A LONG HISTORY (PART #1)

Photos: © Roberto Alborghetti  The Old Port of Marseille has always been the nerve center of the city, the second largest in number of inhabitants in France, after Paris. The first to settle here were, in 600 BC, Greek colonists who left Phocaea (Asia Minor), attracted by the shape of the place: an almost symmetrical… Read More PLACES / VISITING MARSEILLE (FRANCE): THE OLD PORT AS A “MIRROR” OF A LONG HISTORY (PART #1)

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CITIES / LUXEMBOURG, THE RICHEST STATE IN THE WORLD WHERE PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS FREE (PART #1)

© Roberto Alborghetti  Here we are in Luxembourg, one of the smallest states in the world, as well as the only Grand Duchy still existing on the planet. The nation has another record: it stands at the top in the world GDP ranking and is therefore considered the richest on the face of the earth.… Read More CITIES / LUXEMBOURG, THE RICHEST STATE IN THE WORLD WHERE PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS FREE (PART #1)

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CITIES / THE SHOW OF LIFE TAKES PLACE EVERY DAY IN THE WONDERFUL SQUARES OF NAPLES (PART #2)

© Roberto Alborghetti It is not just the city of a thousand churches or five hundred domes. Naples is also the city of squares. There are magnificent ones, some considered among the most beautiful in Europe and a couple, at least, in the world. They have always constituted the connective network of the city of… Read More CITIES / THE SHOW OF LIFE TAKES PLACE EVERY DAY IN THE WONDERFUL SQUARES OF NAPLES (PART #2)

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CITIES / WHAT COMES TO MIND WHEN I SAY NAPLES? FROM VESUVIUS TO PIZZA AND MUCH MORE (PART #1)

© Roberto Alborghetti You’re in Naples and you immediately ask yourself a question: what comes to mind when you think of the Neapolitan city? I discover that the list is long (I deliberately avoid negative and problematic phenomena and aspects because they do not fall within the spirit of this post). As in a game,… Read More CITIES / WHAT COMES TO MIND WHEN I SAY NAPLES? FROM VESUVIUS TO PIZZA AND MUCH MORE (PART #1)

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NOTTINGHAM (UK) / THE UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS: 300 ACRES OF A GREEN AND REFLECTIVE PLACE

On my most recent visit to Robin Hood’s Land for The Ghost Bus project developments, Marysia Zipser and Caron-Jane Lyon accompanied me to the Lakeside Arts Center for a series of meetings. It was a pleasant surprise for me to immerse myself in the atmosphere of the University Park Campus, a real oasis of greenery, where… Read More NOTTINGHAM (UK) / THE UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS: 300 ACRES OF A GREEN AND REFLECTIVE PLACE

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