Photos and the City

Category: Italia

  • Palazzo Doria Pamphilj

    After strolling around Monti I somehow ended up at Via del Corso, the shopping area in Rome, and while I was looking around for some caffé, I found myself at the entrance of the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj. I had no idea what kind of museum it was, I just liked the pictures shown at the entrance and the inner courtyard looked so peaceful and beautiful. The ticket bought itself.

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    Walking through another courtyard and up some stairs I entered the first of the state rooms – Palazzo Doria Pamhilj is still in private ownership and houses the large art collection assembled by the families Doria, Pamphilj, Landi and Aldobrandini starting in the 16th century. Besides the gallery it is possible to visit a part of the apartement and the family chapel.

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  • il mare

    It still feels like summer here – I can´t imagine how cold it will be when I´m back in Vienna this night. But these neapoletan late summer days are the perfect for spending a day on and in the sea. Who wouldn´t take a swim in that turquoise-blue water?

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    As we all know not everyone is granted with save travels on the sea. Please support those (private) vessels Sea-Watch, MOAS (Migrant offshore aid station) and Mercyships (doctors without frontiers) in saving lifes!

  • Sunday with the Old Romans

    Sunday is the day for little Landpartien (trips out of the city) and so I spend some hours at Herculaneum – one of five cities which were buried by Vesuvius big eruption in 79AD.

    Unlike Pompeii, the deep pyroclastic material which covered it preserved wooden and other organic-based objects such as roofs, beds, doors, food and even some 300 skeletons which were surprisingly discovered in recent years along the sea shore as it was thought until then that the town had been evacuated by the inhabitants. (Wikipedia)

    Pompeii was a port – Heculaneum was a wealthier city with lots of fine houses and baths and I especially felt in love with all those beautiful mosaic floors!

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    Herculaneum is easy to reach with the Circumvesuviana line (train between Naples and Sorrento, there is even an express train in the summer month. I took the normal one, it´s an about 20min ride.) and only a short walk from the trainstation.

    I chose this site because it is smaller and one doesn´t neet that much time as in Pompeii and I wanted to do a trek on Vesuvius later on, but as the weather wasn´t good enough, I went back to Naples, ate some “Caffé dell nonno” granite (so good!) and did a tour underground.