© Roberto Alborghetti In Amsterdam city I have always taken lot of photos along streets, as all the others I collected so far. Along a street behind Magna Plaza – a big shopping center in the very heart of Amsterdam – I was attracted by an incredible “palette” located on a door hiding a sort… Read More COLORS PALETTE IN AMSTERDAM: PHOTO OF RUST, DUST AND DETERIORATED PAPER ON THE WALLS #1
© Roberto Alborghetti Pescarenico is a small village in the city of Lecco, on the East side of wonderful Lake Como. It is magnificently described by Alessandro Manzoni at the beginning of Chapter IV of his masterpiece, “I Promessi Sposi / The Betrothed”: “Pescarenico is a small area, on the left bank of the Adda,… Read More PLACES / PESCARENICO (LECCO, LAKE COMO): THE FISHING VILLAGE TOLD BY MANZONI IN HIS MASTERPIECE “I PROMESSI SPOSI” (THE BETROTHED)
© 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)
Photo Gallery and video by Roberto Alborghetti. Ambivere, a municipality in the province of Bergamo (Lombardy, Italy) is mentioned for the first time in a document dated 923. Therefore, its history crosses the enviable milestone of 1000 years and 1 century. It is rare and sometimes even difficult to establish the origins of municipalities and… Read More PLACES / 1,100 YEARS OF HISTORY FOR AMBIVERE (ITALY), A VILLAGE WITH AN ANCIENT HEART
© Roberto Alborghetti There are many surprises and wonders in the lands surrounding Rome. Like Tivoli, a city that holds two Unesco sites in its territory. In ancient Tibur, the first marvel to be declared a World Heritage Site was the archaeological area of Villa Adriana (1998), followed in 2001 by Villa D’Este. Villa Adriana… Read More PLACES/ LANDSCAPES SURROUNDING ROME: FROM TIVOLI TO PALOMBARA SABINA
Photos: © Roberto Alborghetti It is back more beautiful than ever, it is appropriate to say. Since last June 23, on the Isola Bella of Taormina (Messina) – a place of wonders, beyond time and the smallness of its space – Villa Bosurgi has reopened after another phase of extraordinary maintenance works. The place –… Read More THE ISOLA BELLA IN TAORMINA (SICILY): AN ENCHANTING PLACE THAT KEEPS TREASURES OF HISTORY AND NATURE
Photos: ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI It’s like being in a fairytale country. Or in a dream. These are the sensations experienced in admiring the extraordinary light structures set up in Bitonto (Bari, Puglia) at Porta Baresana and along Corso Vittorio Emanuele, in recent weeks, for the May 26th Festival. The anniversary celebrates the “Marian miracle” that took… Read More MAGNIFICENT LIGHT INSTALLATIONS AS A SIGN OF CELEBRATION: PICTURES FROM BITONTO (PUGLIA, ITALY)
Alfonso Bucci, chef of the historic Roma restaurant in Amatrice (Rieti), explains how to prepare a doc amatriciana, the traditional Italian dish exported (and copied and imitated) over the world. The interview was conducted at the Area of taste, tradition and solidarity, built in Amatrice after the 2016 earthquake and an expression of the generosity… Read More AMATRICE, HOME OF SPAGHETTI ALL’AMATRICIANA: INTERVIEW WITH CHEF ALFONSO BUCCI
A shower of umbrellas in the heart of Catania. As if to contrast with the dark colors of the stones of the buildings and the pavement – pure lava rock, taken from the flanks of Etna, the mother mountain of Sicily for centuries – in some historic streets, close to the monumental center, here is… Read More SICILIAN DAYS / IT’S RAINING… COLORFUL UMBRELLAS IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF CATANIA
© Roberto Alborghetti Admiring Rome from its river, the Tiber, is an experience that helps to perceive the Eternal City from other points of view and observation. The Rome that is mirrored and reflected in the river waters is as if it were another Rome. It is the quietest one, not congested by traffic. It… Read More (HE)ART PLACES / ADMIRING ROME ON THE BANKS OF ITS RIVER …
© Roberto Alborghetti Orvieto (Urbs vetus) is one of the jewels of monumental Italy, in the province of Terni (Umbria). How not to get excited in front of the cathedral basilica of Santa Maria Assunta? Magnificent masterpiece and spectacle of Gothic architecture. There aren’t many words to say. Here it is enough to admire. And… Read More (HE)ART PLACES / THE CATHEDRAL OF ORVIETO (ITALY): WHAT A MAGNIFICENT SHOW!
An article written 10 years ago, in the summer of 2011. My macro photography artworks in the review signed by an authoritative art critician: Lino Lazzari, professional journalist, writer, priest in love with art and life, dean in Italy of communication on art, a long editorial militancy for the newspaper “L’Eco di Bergamo”, author of… Read More “THIS MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY IS REAL POP ART AVANT-GARDE”: IN MEMORY OF LINO LAZZARI, ART CRITICIAN
San Felice is the pearl set in the Circeo National Park (Latina), a place of absolute beauty in terms of biodiversity. Protected in a wall, it stands on a natural platform overlooking the spectacular bay of the Golfo Sereno. It has an ancient history that unravels from the Neanderthal era, then a Roman colony, a… Read More S. FELICE CIRCEO (ITALY): A JOURNEY IN THE HISTORY BETWEEN NEANDERTHAL AND THE MYTH OF ULYSSES AND CIRCE
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