Thursday’s door.
Continue readingAt the Palazzo Gio Carlo Brignole, Genoa
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Seven Street Art Snaps From Bologna
Bologna is sometimes called La Rossa (“the Red”), a nickname rooted as much in its terracotta-and-brick architecture as in its tradition of left-wing and anti-fascist politics. It is also a university town, where those warm, terracotta-coloured walls serve young creatives as an inviting public notebook for stencils and scrawls and paintings and tags.
Continue readingLast Week in Bologna – 3 October 2026
A handful of shots from a 19-hour visit to Bologna last week. Above is Diavolessa, a female devil/gargoyle whose menacing wrought-iron visage stands guard under the portico of the former Ospedale degli Innocenti, the city’s one-time orphanage.
Continue readingIn Transit: Between Trieste and Monfalcone
Trains and Stations, 1 April 2026
A Valle di Cembra Brief
14 Photos from the 2026 Winter Olympic Super Team Ski Jumping Competition
Predil Lake Notebook (and a Frozen Alpine Lake Ice Composition)
In Transit: Marano Lagoon
Vertigo at the Hotel Bristol Palace, Genoa
This is the view looking down on the elliptical pearly white and blood red staircase at the Hotel Bristol Palace in Genoa. As the headline suggests, it did inspire scenes in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’, who was a guest at the hotel in 1925 when the then-unknown filmmaker was working on his first film, ‘The Pleasure… Continue reading
Loano Station
Mailboxes, Ventimiglia
