505 STEPS, UNIQUE IN THE WORLD – Siena: the frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Torre del Mangia

8 years ago

This building, even now, is the seat of the municipality of Siena, but you need not worry, because the halls…

A SHELL CONTAINING THE PALIO – Piazza del Campo and Via della Galluzza, secularism and holiness, into the same walls of Siena

8 years ago

Piazza del Campo, is where you can find all the major monuments of the city. Just like Rome, this city…

BLACK MAPS – Poetry, by Mark Strand

8 years ago

BLACK MAPS Not the attendance of stones, nor the applauding wind, shall let you know you have arrived. Nor the…

SUMMER – Poetry by Abai Kunanbaev

8 years ago

SUMMER Summer climbs the mountains. Flowers overcolour and blanch. Men leave the sun and sit, tree-tented, by the cold creek.…

BETWEEN GOING AND STAYING – Poetry by Octavio Paz

8 years ago

ENTRE IRSE Y QUEDARSE > Entre irse y quedarse duda el día, enamorado de su transparencia. La tarde circular es…

NIGHT ON THE ISLAND – Poetry by Pablo Neruda

8 years ago

LA NOCHE EN LA ISLA > Toda la noche he dormido contigo junto al mar en la isla. Salvaje y…

REMOTE, WILD AND SILENT – Travel along the north coast of Scotland

8 years ago

Yes, the bay is really wide. Just from that bay ferries leave for Orkney and Shetland. Thurso is really a…

SAYING SOMETHING – Poetry, by Carol Ann Duffy

8 years ago

SAYING SOMETHING  Things assume your shape. Discarded clothes, a damp shroud in the bathroom, vacant hands. This is not fiction.…

PAINTING AND TRAVELING A LOT – Piero della Francesca, nothing may be forgotten

8 years ago

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA 1/4 - Of the man (which is certainly not the year of birth), born in the small…