Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Πάμε Ιταλία??

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    #16
    Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

    Πάμε Ιταλία;
    Why don't we go to Italy?






    Walled within the city, the Vatican, with its domed St. Peter�s Basilica, covers 109 acres (44 hectares).

    All Rome was under papal rule from the sixth century A.D. until the city became Italy�s capital in 1870. But not until 1929 did the papacy renounce its claims to all other Italian territories and win recognition of its sovereignty over Vatican City. Residence of a thousand citizens, the enclave has its own railroad station, post office, radio station, newspaper, mosaic studio, palaces, gardens, library, and museums.

    —Text adapted from "When in Rome," National Geographic magazine, June 1970

    Comment


      #17
      Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

      Πάμε Ιταλία;
      Why don't we go to Italy?






      Conceived in 312 B.C., the Via Appia was the first and the most famous of Rome�s long-distance military-commercial highways, by which the ancient city bound her conquests to her.

      Hundreds of roads led to Rome by the beginning of the second century A.D. But no route achieved the lasting fame of Via Appia, whose stones have felt the tread of Hannibal and St. Paul, Charlemagne, Lord Byron, and Mark Twain. Today travelers can still ride or walk on patches of the huge green-gray volcanic stones that Romans paved with.

      Ruins of Roman tombs line the Appia. For rich Romans, it was a burial site�multitudes of travelers reading the deceased's names was believed to confer a kind of immorality.

      —Text adapted from "Down the Ancient Appian Way," National Geographic magazine, June 1981

      Comment


        #18
        Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

        Πάμε Ιταλία;
        Why don't we go to Italy?






        Out of the grasp of looters, a Roman soldier shares a shed with other statues removed from display in Rome�s Villa Borghese gardens. Since 1970 thieves have pilfered some 523,000 treasures in Italy. Trained �art police� have recovered about a third.

        The villa was originally a simple vineyard, which was purchased by the Borghese family in 1580. In the early 1600s Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli Borghese, Pope Paul V's nephew, purchased surrounding lands. He began an ambitious building process that converted the simple vineyard into a sprawling, 200-acre (80-hectare) estate with a dozen buildings surrounded by gardens replete with statues and fountains.

        —Text adapted from "Italy's Endangered Art," National Geographic magazine, August 1999

        Comment


          #19
          Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

          Πάμε Ιταλία;
          Why don't we go to Italy?






          Memory-haunted arena of the ancients, Rome�s 1,900-year-old Colosseum saw bloody gladiatorial duels, battles with wild beasts, and mock naval engagements on its flooded floor. Christians banned the spectacles, and in later centuries presented church dramas here.

          Time, earthquakes, and stone scavengers took their toll. Still, the treasured monument survived and at the time of this photograph was still serving Rome�as a traffic circle.

          Cars at evening rush hour create streaks of light in this time exposure, which also captures horse-drawn carriages waiting at curbside for tourists.

          —Text adapted from "When in Rome," National Geographic magazine, June 1970

          Comment


            #20
            Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

            Πάμε Ιταλία;
            Why don't we go to Italy?






            Haunted by its reputation as poor, rural, and beholden to the Mafia, Sicily insists that change has arrived. True, one Sicilian in five is out of work. And true, the island remains Italy's most agricultural region, where pastori still graze their flocks. But the torch of law has singed the Mafia's empire. � Sicily looks toward the resolution of a bitter drama generations in the making.

            —From "Italy Apart�Sicily," August 1995, National Geographic magazine

            Comment


              #21
              Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

              Πάμε Ιταλία;
              Why don't we go to Italy?






              A veiled Sicilian actress awaits her cue in a classical Greek tragedy. � Large, fertile, and at the center of the Mediterranean, Sicily has invariably been someone else's prize. � The Greeks arrived in the eighth century B.C., establishing important colonies whose ruined temples and theaters remain some of the island's great tourist attractions.

              Comment


                #22
                Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                Πάμε Ιταλία;
                Why don't we go to Italy?






                Like startled doves, linens and underwear flap in the Mediterranean sun baking old Palermo's rugged Albergheria neighborhood. 'We get angry when it rains,' says a native Palermitan. 'It's an insult, and we take it personally.'

                —From "Italy Apart�Sicily," August 1995, National Geographic magazine

                Comment


                  #23
                  Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                  Πάμε Ιταλία;
                  Why don't we go to Italy?






                  The late afternoon sun speaks warmly to Giuseppe Vicario at a caf� in the village of Alcara li Fusi, where men gather to talk politics and soccer while their wives cook and clean house. In the cities women are emerging from the shadows. 'I'm not sure men have changed,' says Valeria Ajovalasit, founder of a feminist group, 'but women have.'

                  —From "Italy Apart�Sicily," August 1995, National Geographic magazine

                  Comment


                    #24
                    Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                    Πάμε Ιταλία;
                    Why don't we go to Italy?






                    Little man in a big world, eight-year-old Calogero Amoroso shows off his double-breasted best for a wedding in Sciacca. Once known for its large families, Italy now has the industrialized world's lowest birthrate. Sicily's rate, though higher than that of the nation as a whole, has fallen by almost half since 1950. Sicilian women today have an average of 1.7 children.

                    —From "Italy Apart�Sicily," August 1995, National Geographic magazine

                    Comment


                      #25
                      Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                      Πάμε Ιταλία;
                      Why don't we go to Italy?






                      Young fans thrill to Italy�s World Cup soccer team. Seven people live in matriarch Maria Anastasi�s three-room apartment in a poor Catania neighborhood. Says 16-year-old Marilena Pecoraro, at far left: �I don�t like being Sicilian. Work is too scarce here.�

                      —From "Italy Apart�Sicily," August 1995, National Geographic magazine

                      Comment


                        #26
                        Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                        Πάμε Ιταλία;
                        Why don't we go to Italy?






                        A mirror makes two stalls out of one in the Vucciria, Palermo's partly covered marketplace, where locals gather to shop and exchange the latest news. Palermo is hardworking, despite its distractions: 'We wake up in the morning,' says a businessman fondly, 'it's warm, and we can see the ocean and smell the flowers.'

                        —From "Italy Apart�Sicily," August 1995, National Geographic magazine

                        Comment


                          #27
                          Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                          Πάμε Ιταλία;
                          Why don't we go to Italy?






                          Stately ruins of the Greek Temple of Hera keep company with the wildflowers at Selinus more than two millennia after its dedication. At least seven temples once stood here, the westernmost outpost of Greece's presence in Sicily. Attacked in warfare and toppled by earthquakes, two of the temples were partly reconstructed earlier this century.

                          —From "Italy Apart�Sicily," August 1995, National Geographic magazine

                          Comment


                            #28
                            Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                            Πάμε Ιταλία;
                            Why don't we go to Italy?






                            Italie

                            Comment


                              #29
                              Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                              Πάμε Ιταλία;
                              Why don't we go to Italy?






                              Portovenere, Ligurie

                              Comment


                                #30
                                Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                                Πάμε Ιταλία;
                                Why don't we go to Italy?






                                Portovenere, Ligurie

                                Comment

                                Working...
                                X