Po river /2
Small boat on the Po river
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Po River /1
Autumn on the Po river
The middle of the summer
It is summer—night time. The air is humid. It is warm. I cycle downtown. I try not to hurry too much, but I am a bit nervous. I turn left in Via Mercatello. I see the lights on at the bar at the corner. I recognise some people who stand on the sidewalk in front with a glass in their hands. I reach the end of the road, turn right and see the back of […]
Piazza del Duomo, Cremona
Originally built in Romanesque style, the cathedral has been restored and extended several times, with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque elements. Construction began in 1107, but the works were damaged and halted after an earthquake in 1117. Construction resumed in 1129, and the building was probably finished in 1160-1170. The main altar, dedicated to the city’s patron saints Archelaus and Himerius, was consecrated in 1196.Façade The current façade was probably built in the 13th and the early 14th century. In the same period the arms of the transept were […]
Bertazzola
I am catching up with posting at-least-one-photo-a-day. I stopped on 21/3, the first day of spring. I worked long days, and if you add that to the unprecedented turbulence, I did not have the headspace to keep posting the photos I wanted to post. I am catching up this weekend. Some more photos from Cremona. The one you see is of the Bertazzola, the short loggia that connects the Torrazzo bell tower with the main […]
Evening market /2
I wander in these busy streets and ask myself where do the shop owners will put all the things they have hanging outside their shops.
Near Durbar Square
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Man in white
It is getting late. The sun has set and the sky is turning quickly to dark blue. Soon it will be night. The street lights are not yet on.
Street corners
It was a very hot day in the southern Terai. We were few kilometres from the Indian border. We had left the hills behind us and reached the flat area and the temperature had gone up considerably. It was dry season and the main color my eyes could see was the light, dry, brown of the barren fields. The weather has become more erratic over the last few years, they told up at the meeting […]
Seeds and legumes shop in the Terai
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