Italia, amore mio

SARDEGNA - San Teodoro - Spiaggia della Cinta

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VENETO - Venezia

Venice is a city in the North East Italy known both for tourism and for industry, and is the capital of the region Veneto, with a population of 271,367. Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area (population 1,600,000). The city historically was the capital of an independent city-state. Venice has been known as the “La Dominante”, “Serenissima”, “Queen of the Adriatic”, “City of Water”, “City of Masks”, “City of Bridges”, “The Floating City”, and “City of Canals”. Luigi Barzini, writing in The New York Times, described it as “undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man”.

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PUGLIA - Molfetta - Cattedrale di San Corrado

Molfetta is a town in the southern Italian region of Puglia, on the Adriatic coast. The San Corrado Cathedral was built in the 12th-13th centuries in Apulian-Romanesque style, using local stone on a basilica plan, a nave with two aisles divided by four central cross-shaped pilasters. The floor has two domes. From the apse area rise two 20 m towers, one of which acted as watchtower, the other as the usual campanile. The interior has some notable religious furnitures from the 16th century.

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LAZIO - Roma - Castello della Magliana

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PUGLIA - Melpignano - Chiesa e Convento degli Agostiniani 

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PUGLIA - Vieste - Panorama

Vieste is a town and comune in the province of Foggia, in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. A renowned marine resort in Gargano, Vieste has often received Blue Flags for the purity of its waters from the Foundation for Environmental Education. The town is bordered by Mattinata, Monte Sant’Angelo, Peschici and Vico del Gargano. Till a few decades ago, its main resources were fishing and agriculture. Now, however, the great development of tourism, with modern hotels, resorts and campings has transformed both the appearance of the place and its economy and style of life. The coast is very interesting from a geological point of view. Even if next to the town there are two long straight and large beaches, rest of the coast presents several gulfs and many small, hidden, sandy beaches. The erosion by water and winds has shaped the calcareous rock into grottoes and arches. Since the coast is steep, some of the finest sights can be reached only by sea.

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PUGLIA - Il promontorio del Gargano

Gargano is a historical and geographical Italian sub-region situated in Apulia, consisting in a wide isolated mountain massif made of highland and several peaks and forming the backbone of the Gargano Promontory projecting into the Adriatic Sea. The high point is Monte Calvo at 1,065 m (3,494 ft). Most of the upland area, about 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi), is now part of a national park, the Parco nazionale del Gargano, founded in 1991. The Gargano peninsula is partly covered by the remains of an ancient forest, Foresta Umbra, the only remaining part in Italy of the ancient oak and beech forest that once covered much of Central Europe as well as the Apennine deciduous montane forests biome. Horace spoke of the oaks of Garganus in Ode II, IX. The coast of Gargano is rich in beaches and tourist facilities. Vieste, Peschici and Mattinata are world wide famous seaside resort locations.

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SICILIA - Noto - La Cattedrale

Noto Cathedral (Sicily). Noto is a city of Sicily. It’s located 32 km southwest of the city of Syracuse at the foot of the Iblean Mountains and gives its name to the surrounding valley, Val di Noto. In 2002 Noto and its church were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The eight towns in south-eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli, were all rebuilt after 1693 on or beside towns existing at the time of the earthquake which took place in that year. They represent a considerable collective undertaking, successfully carried out at a high level of architectural and artistic achievement. Keeping within the late Baroque style of the day, they also depict distinctive innovations in town planning and urban building. Criterion 1) This group of towns in south-eastern Sicily provides outstanding testimony to the exuberant genius of late Baroque art and architecture. Criterion 2) The towns of the Val di Noto represent the culmination and final flowering of Baroque art in Europe. Criterion 4) The exceptional quality of the late Baroque art and architecture in the Val di Noto lies in its geographical and chronological homogeneity, as well as its quantity, the result of the 1693 earthquake in this region. Criterion 5) The eight towns of south-eastern Sicily that make up this nomination, which are characteristic of the settlement pattern and urban form of this region, are permanently at risk from earthquakes and eruptions of Mount Etna.

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LOMBARDIA - Brienno - Un delizioso paesino sul lago di Como

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SICILIA - Palermo - La Cattedrale

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SICILIA - Caccamo - Panorama

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SICILIA - Taormina - Isola Bella

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SICILIA - Trapani - Corso Vittorio Emanuele

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VENETO - Venezia - Un canale

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LIGURIA - Vernazza - Avvolta in un abbraccio

di Giuseppe Sabella

Concorso fotografico nazionale - Rete Comuni-italiani.it 2009

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