Guess what I was trying to emphasize in this photo… Right, the wrought iron balcony. The fact is that I love this balcony, particularly the two candelabra, which makes it look very much “Beauty and the Beast”. And maybe the reality is not that far from the fiction: it seems that a very solitary and rich man used to live in this building. After he died, his coffin abruptly fell on the ground during the funeral procession and his corpse rolled down the hill. Oops.
In Italy there are so many undiscovered jewels and Aquileia is one of them. A small town near Udine, it used to be one of the richest cities of the Roman Empire. Today Aquileia is part of the Unesco World Heritage and many of its treasures are still to be discovered since they lie beneath the surrounding fields. The photo above shows the inside of the basilica, whose floor is the largest Paleo-Christian mosaic of the western world.
Piazza Unità, Trieste
Italy couldn’t exist without the concept of piazza. If you leave behind its architectural definition, the true meaning of piazza is pure social life. Italians meet in the piazza, dance, chat, walk in it. I would call it the shell that surrounds an expressive aggregation, as Italians often are.