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During the summer of 1997 I had the chance to travel through Italy. There I found that Italy was everything that people claimed it was and more.
On my brief tour of the country, I was saw over two thousand years of history, ate rich food and got to a taste of the Italian culture. I saw some of the most splendid cities on the face
of the earth. In my brief time in Italy I saw some of the most romantic and beautiful towns in Europe. In all I saw seven "towns" The first three need no explanation
Florence ,
Rome and
Venice .
The other four cities I visited to are well known to travelers to Italy but less to outsiders.
Siena
was a one time powerful city state, that after the plague and foul play by Florence ended up getting preserved as a truly gothic style town.
Cinque Terre is a series of five
towns on the Italian Riviera that you can hike between along the coast and or go swimming.
They are really close together and a train connects them all.
Pompeii is one of the towns Mt. Vesuvius buried in 79 A.D. when it destroyed the surrounding area in an large eruption. Thus preserving a first century town for historians and archaeologists alike.
Paestum
is a set of Greek ruins in the southern part of
Italy near Pompeii . Its interesting to see these ruins and then travel to Greece and see other Greek ruins and compare the two.
Lastly, I have put a link to my pictures from Corfu , Greece because one, that is where I went after Italy and two it the island was on the map so why not include it. I hope you enjoy the photos, unfortunately I was conserving film still when I was in Italy.
That just means I'll have to go back some day and take more photos.
In the summer of 1999 I had a chance to visit Italy again on my way from Spain to Greece .On this latest trip I visited the northern parts of Italy again. Over all I had five stops, two of which I had visited before (Cinque Terre and Florence , two of my favorite spots in Italy.). However, on this trip I was able to see three impressive sites that I missed on my first trip and that I am very glad I came back for. The first one was Pisa with its famous leaning tower. I also saw the towns of Assisi and San Gimignano. Assisi was the home of St. Francis and the Franciscan monks and has managed to pay a tribute to him with impressive mural in the churches built in his honor. San Gimigano was a simi-powerful city state with fuding nobles that built huge towers to shoot at each other from. In the summer of 2005, I found myself again in Europe. I found myself on the verge of returning to Italy. It was a very tempting. I went as far South as Lugano in Switzerland. I found that Lugano reminded me a lot of northern Italy. This should have been no big surprise, since Lugano is in the Italian portion of Switzerland. Here I got a quick fix of Italian culture (with heavy Swiss influences), got to eat good Italian cooking (at Swiss prices) and drank the local Swiss wine. The area around Lugano also gave me a preview of the Italian Alps. For almost 10 years, I yearned to visit the Italian Alps I came close in 2006 with Switzerland. Then, in 2006, I was finally able to see northern Italy. I entered the Dolomites from Austria by train and went to Casterlrotto (Kastle Rut in German).Then after a quick trip to Verona I went to Lake Como for 3 days of R and R. Finally, I had a quick stop in Milan (Milano) before returning home. This page I started just after College on my school's server in 1997. Back then, digital camera's did not exist (or were 1000 dollars for 1 mp) so I had to scan all of the files. Most people used dial up. Therefore, I kept my files small. Therefore, when viewing my collection, please keep in mind, I did this as an armature over 10 years ago. I do not have time with my real job to bring it up to 2008 standards. However, that being said, please enjoy what I have been providing for the past 10 years. Any comments, please E-mail me, |
