Vertigo at the Hotel Bristol Palace, Genoa

August 11, 2025
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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 Garden’.

More on the hotel’s architecure, history and intrigue is here.

It’s been a while since I’ve participated in a WordPress Challenge so thought I’d jump back in with this dizzying contribution to the Lines, Colors and Patterns for Len-Artists Challenge #359.

Photo from 1 November, 2024.


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Bob Ramsak

Bob Ramsak

I'm a reporter, photographer and researcher driven by passions for travel, culture and justice. I've visited 62 countries and write something and make pictures every day.

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This is BobRamsak.com, a public notebook by Bob Ramsak.

I’m a long-time journalist, photographer and researcher driven by passions for environmental, social and refugee justice. I’ve visited 62 countries and write something and make pictures (almost) every day. This site is a notebook and photolog where I track and (sometimes) comment on those interests, journal my travels and log my current obsessions. At the moment the most dominant one is my renewed passion for birding and bird photography.

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