Mediterranean

Menorca, flashing portrait

21/07/2026 13:27
In the memory the island is a syncopated succession of recalls, many of them monochromes, some in colour, some have reappeared after a long time hidden among negative archives and other, newer, have been wilfully created again in black and white. Ferries from Barcelona and Valencia used to dock in...

Napule, Napule

09/12/2025 13:29
“Il nome, il simplice nome di Napoli è uno dei più carichi di forza imaginativa che siano al mondo[1]”. From the air, or alternatively from the heights of Castel Sant'Elmo, the view of the gulf's waters confirms Naples' role as a gateway to the Tyrrhenian Sea, always with the unmistakable...

The Tyrrhenian Sea

22/11/2025 12:49
West of the Italian peninsula, off the coasts of Tuscany, those of Lazio, Campania, and Calabria, and enclosed by the large islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily, lies a marine area covering approximately 275,000 square kilometres. This is the Tyrrhenian Sea, an extension of the...

Ebre's Delta

26/08/2022 08:38
The accumulation of sediments carried by Ebro River over the centuries has created this great changing space of more than three hundred square kilometres, which, in its wetlands, hosts an abundant wildlife protected by the Natural Park and an agriculture characterized by the rice crops. Delta’s...

Tiles of the Blessed

31/12/2021 08:16
Valldemossa, located on the Mallorcan Tramuntana Mountains, is mainly known for its Real Cartuja, the old royal friary. Mallorca’s King Jaime II ordered its construction to his son Sanç in the thirteenth century. In 1399 Martí l'Humà yielded to the Carthusian friars who lived there until the...

Fascio Architecture

02/07/2021 09:07
In the years when the Dodecanese was administered by Italy, two architects landed on the island of Leros with the task of developing a new city to house the personnel and services of the naval base. Those were the heydays of rationalist architecture and Art Deco. But also those of Mussolini...

Sa Penya and Erwin Broner

05/03/2020 08:56
Sa Penya means nothing else than the Rock and is the name of a neighbourhood looking out over the port of Ibiza. Here disembarked, in the mid-fifties, the architect Erwin Broner. From Santa Llucia bastion or alternatively from Jaime I viewpoint, close to the cathedral, is perfectly appreciated the...

The Aegina Treasury

18/01/2019 13:05
Aegina is an island not too big in the waters of the Saronic Gulf, near the Greek capital, Athens. The British Museum occupies a prominent space in the Bloomsbury neighbourhood, in the heart of London. Seventy gold jewels from the Bronze Age link both. The link is the Aegina Treasury...

El Muelle Audaz

19/10/2018 11:42
It goes deep inside Trieste old port waters as if it were a sharp weapon, defying the clash of the waves or the violent north wind that pushes the water on the pier. Here steamers moored coming from distant harbours, and since the beginning, on gentle days, it was for the Trieste people a favourite...

Audacious Quay

19/10/2018 11:36
It goes deep inside Trieste old port waters as if it were a sharp weapon, defying the clash of the waves or the violent north wind that pushes the water on the pier. Here steamers moored coming from distant harbours, and since the beginning, on gentle days, it was for the Trieste people a favourite...

At Pointe Courte, Sete

15/06/2018 13:28
Pointe Courte – Short Point - is a small fishing village that is almost isolated behind the railway station and the highway link. Facing the great salt pond of Thau it looks like a world aside in Paul Valéry and Georges Brassens birth town. To get there, walking from downtown, must be crossed a...

From Ragusa to Dubrovnik

04/05/2018 12:25
Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro, freedom is not for sale not even for all the gold in the world. The Republic of Ragusa, when it was a city-state on the Dalmatian coast, had to learn to swim and eat in the turbulent waters between Venetian and Turks to stay afloat and true to its...

South of Roussillon

21/02/2018 09:47
Where the coast becomes sharp and, before it be called brave it is just called red, in a land surnamed La Marenda, and where the Pyrenees on its way down to the sea become soft and take the name of the Alberas. In any case they are two logical place-names, Albera comes from the Latin alberia,...

Trieste, the No Place

29/12/2017 13:10
Trieste, the No Place Changing city, colour filled, bordering and ductile bound. Some have defined it as a non-place, an atopic site. Trieste is everything and nothing, complements itself and is contradictory. All of this - and nothing - have made it cradle and port of call and stay of writers who...

The Island of the 500 Churches

03/11/2017 10:14
Mykonos, Aegean Capital of sun and beach tourism, parties, debauchery and hedonism without limit, has a curiously disproportionate and unexpected high rate of churches, temples, shrines and chapels. Perhaps it could be to balance excesses.   From any point in the island is not necessary to...
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