“Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” (Frank Lloyd Wright)This is the architecture of neofuturistic architect Santiago Calatrava in Valencia. The “City of Arts and Sciences” with its futuristic buildings is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia and one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved
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Street Art. Vera Bugatti.
Vera Bugatti is an Italian Artist and Street painter famous as a Chalk artist (with the traditional Italian Madonnaro technique) and 3D Street painter .She performed in several Street Art events all over the world.“As a street painter I’m first a visual artist. I draw my characters with chalk on pavement, streets or sidewalks in urban public areas. The ephemeral nature of this Italian ancient art form has taught me how to communicate immediately feelings to the viewer cause my work will disappear as soon as the wind blows, as fast as the rain comes”In Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) in 2015, he has made this work in the Piazza del Carmine, of great beauty.Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved
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Florence
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance cultural or natural. Italy has a total of 51 inscribed properties. These include the center historic centre of Florence named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982 as “Symbol of the renaissance with extraordinary architecture and art such as the Florence Cathedral, Basilica of Santa Croce, the Uffizi or the Pitti Palace. “Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved
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Pisa (Italy).Monumental Cemetery
The Piazza dei Miracoli , in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, recognized as an important center of European medieval art and one of the finest architectural complexes in the world. The square is dominated by four great religious edifices: the Pisa Cathedral, the Pisa Baptistry, the Campanile, and the Monumental Cemetery founded in 1277.The structure of the Cemetery represents an oblong cloister in flowery “Gothic” style, with the aim of accommodating the sarcophagi from the Roman period, which until then were scattered around the Cathedral and reused as illustrious Pisans’ burials. The building had to be a “large and decent, secluded and closed”; the result is one of the oldest medieval Christian architectures, destined to cult of the dead.In 1987, the whole square was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.http://www.leaningtower-ofpisa.com/monumental-cemetery-of-pisa/Photo © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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Valencia. The “City of Arts and Sciences
“Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” (Frank Lloyd Wright)This is the architecture of neofuturistic architect Santiago Calatrava in Valencia. The “City of Arts and Sciences” with its futuristic buildings is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia and one of the 12 Treasures of Spain.Photo © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reserved
Lions of Italy
I follow the story of Adrian Balan on “Lions of Italy” and offer my lion …..Cagliari Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. The church was built in the 13th century in Pisan-Romanesque style. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was renovated along Baroque lines.In the interior, the main attraction is the ambo of Guglielmo, a 12th-century pair of pulpits by one Master Guglielmo, originally sculpted for the cathedral of Pisa. It was taken to Cagliari in 1312 and placed in the nave, near to its third column. In 1669 it was split in two, and the two pulpits placed in their current locations. The four marble lions which supported the ambo are now located at the feet of the presbytery balustrade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagliari_CathedralPhoto © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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Sardinia (Italy). StreetArt
Orgosolo, Sardinia (Italy)Orgosolo, in the heart of Sardinia, it is a fascinating open-air museum of over 150 murals, almost all, engaging direct impact. Very beautiful for their expressiveness and vivid colors, and a good number are of great artistic value.Orgosolo is also one of the cradles of the “tenor singing”, a choir singing traditional polyphonic whose origins are lost in the mists of time and that was indicated by UNESCO as a world intangible heritage.A must see if you come to SardiniaPhoto © Daniela Serra – All Rights Reservedhttp://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/point-of-interest/orgosolo
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Lions of Italy
I follow the story of Adrian Balan on “Lions of Italy” and offer my lion …..Cagliari Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. The church was built in the 13th century in Pisan-Romanesque style. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was renovated along Baroque lines.In the interior, the main attraction is the ambo of Guglielmo, a 12th-century pair of pulpits by one Master Guglielmo, originally sculpted for the cathedral of Pisa. It was taken to Cagliari in 1312 and placed in the nave, near to its third column. In 1669 it was split in two, and the two pulpits placed in their current locations. The four marble lions which supported the ambo are now located at the feet of the presbytery balustrade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagliari_CathedralPhoto © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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Pisa (Italy), Monumental Cemetery
The Piazza dei Miracoli , is a walled 8.87-hectare area located in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, recognized as an important center of European medieval art and one of the finest architectural complexes in the world. The square is dominated by four great religious edifices: the Pisa Cathedral, the Pisa Baptistry, the Campanile, and the Camposanto Monumentale (Monumental Cemetery) founded in 1277 by Giovanni di Simone.The structure of the Cemetery represents an oblong cloister in flowery “Gothic” style, with the aim of accommodating the sarcophagi from the Roman period, which until then were scattered around the Cathedral and reused as illustrious Pisans’ burials. The building had to be a “large and decent, secluded and closed”; the result is one of the oldest medieval Christian architectures, destined to cult of the dead.In 1987, the whole square was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Source:http://www.leaningtower-ofpisa.com/monumental-cemetery-of-pisa/
Archaeological Sardinia (Italy)
Sardinia’s Nuraghic monuments, dolmen, menhir, domus de janas, giants’ tombs, all striking testimonials to an ancient megalithic culture, are believed to be surrounded by strong magnetic energy which influences and improves the wellbeing of body and soul. Even Aristotle reported that in Sardinia lying close to a Tomb of the Giants was a way to get rid of nightmares and obsessions. The necropolis of Sant’Andrea Priu is an archaeological site located on the south side of the fertile plain of Saint Lucia, in the municipality of Bonorva, Sardinia. The complex, one of the most important of the island, is composed of twenty domus de janas; one of them with its eighteen rooms appears to be one of the largest hypogean tombs of the Mediterranean basin. Chronologically, the complex is dated 3500–2900 BC. In the necropolis lies this Dolmen very particular form of bull ..http://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/article/stones-and-water–ancient-sources-wellnessPhoto © Daniela Serra 2016 – All Rights Reserved
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