Venice, Venito, Italy (2014)
I vividly remember last year walking around the mock-up of Venice that is the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada & thinking how it’d be cool to get back to the real thing, recalling with fondness my first & only visit to Venice back in 2007. That was...
Verona, Venito, Italy
Verona, Italy Home To Fictitious Romeo & Juliet & A Very Real Stunning Array Of UNESCO-Listed Churches Church of Saint Anastasia, Verona, Italy. March 17, 2014 ; Verona on the River Adige in Venito, northern Italy, is famous as the location for the...
Milano Centrale, Milan, Italy || Riding The Rails
Milano Centrale in the Italian fashion capital of Milan, one of Europe’s biggest train stations as captured on a day of riding the European rails.
Naples, Campania, Italy
Before getting to Naples, the capital of the Italian south and my last stop in this my first jaunt through Italy, I had read that it was ‘different’, an utterly compelling city unlike anywhere else in the country. I had read that it was large, filthy,...
Pompeii, Campania, Italy
Pompeii, a 40-minute train ride around the Bay of Naples from Naples in southern Italy, was a wealthy Roman trading town that, on August 24th of the year 79 AD, was buried by volcanic ash and pumice from the eruption of the nearby volcano Mt. Vesuvius. The volcano had...
Vatican City
A sovereign city-state & the smallest country in the world, home to the largest church & the richest, most compelling museum complex on earth.
Rome, Italy
The cradle of modern civilisation as we know it & an open-air museum housing some of the major monuments of antiquity.
Sistine Chapel, Vatican City
Vatican City, officially Vatican City State, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It achieved sovereignty from Italy & the wider city of Rome in 1929 when the then Fascist Italian leader...