Photos and the City

Category: Travel

Glas & Stone

After wandering around Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II I decided to be brave, ignore my fear of hights and take a walk on the roof the Duomo di Milano …

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II built from 1865 and 1877 is one of the oldest shopping malls of the world. Designed by Giuseppe Mengoni who died the tragic way of falling from the roof of the one galleria he had built.

The Galleria conntects the Duoma and the Teatro Alla Scala and not only serves as a shopping area but also as a common Milanese meeting and dining place.

Who had thought that it would be possible to walk on the roof of Italys second biggest church – the gothic Duomo di Milano, built during a couple of centuries. And what a view! The roofs of Milan and all the (little) details of the Duomo. I almost expected all the creatures (the gargoyles) to come alive like in a movie!

Galleria Vittoorio Emanuele II on the right

01/07/2016
Shrines over shrines

There were quite a lot of things about Naples that had me spellbound: all the fireworks every evening around the bay, children driving scooters, the amount of fried food and something that might be typical for the Quartieri Spagnoli, at least I didn´t see them in that amount somewhere else: shrines!

They are everywhere! Small, big, old, new, kitschy, nice, full of pictures and so on – there must be hundreds of them in the spanish quarters…

Merken

29/06/2016
Officina Profumo Farmaceutica Santa Maria Novella

Whenever you´re in Florence you don´t want to miss one of the oldest and probably most beautiful pharmacies of the world! La Officina Profumo Farmaceutica Santa Maria Novella – founded shortly after 1221 by Dominican friars who made and sold balms, medications out of medicinal herbs grown in the monastic gardens.

In 1612 the pharmacie was well know even outside of Florence and opened to the public.

The Old Apothecary, now a herbalist’s shop, was used for the sale and display of products between 1612 and 1848, while the historic Sales Room, restructured in 1848, was the place in which the company’s customers were welcomed when the increasing fame of the pharmacy made the provision of a room for entertaining customers a must. (Museums in Florence)

Today they offer a wide range of products from soaps to colognes, medical liqueurs made after the old recipes. Even some fragrance quite similar to the “acqua della regina” once created for the loyal costumer Catherine de’ Medici.

Officina Profuma Farmaceutica Santa Maria Novella

24/06/2016