True. At one time the city was famous for its castle, but what I want to talk to you is a different thing: the beauty of what encompasses this corner of Ireland. First, my suggestion is to walk next to what remains of its ancient walls (without losing the charm of what remains of an old Franciscan monastery). A trip …
Read More »JOURNEY IN GREECE – The north eastern Aegean islands
Thassos and Samothrace, Limnos and Lesvos, Chios, Samos and Ikaria. Seven islands that – almost like a mosaic – reveal a complex natural and historical landscape, where memories Byzantine, Genoese and Ottoman open your eyes. Monasteries and small villages, castles, mountains and forests of pine, olive and cypress trees. But also beautiful springs and waterfalls of crystal clear water, rocky …
Read More »JACQUES CALLOT (1592/1635), FRENCH ARTIST: Master of the graver, with shades of grotesque and gallantry
TOUSSAINT DUBREUIL (1561/1602), FRENCH PAINTER: Highly elongated and undulating forms, same shades of the work of painter Primaticcio
EUBEA, YOUR HOUSE IN GREECE: Holidays in Sporades Islands
Welcome. Even today, I have waited, to continue our tour of the archipelago of the Sporades Islands, on the island Euboea. We will find forests of chestnut trees and many pine trees, but if you love the sea, we will be able to go on the lonely coast north through winding roads. We have the opportunity to visit the Archaeological …
Read More »JEAN FOUQUET (1420/1481), FRENCH PAINTER: Paintings on wood and miniatures, with Italian backgrounds
ANGUISH: Poetry, by Stéphane Mallarmé
ANGUISH I do not come tonight for your body, or the beast that the sins of a nation, accept, or stir up in your impure hair a sad storm, under the tedium incurable pouring my kiss. I ask you to read the heavy sleep without dreams, hovered under the veil of secret remorse, and that you can enjoy after your …
Read More »YOU ARE LIKENESS: Poetry, by Paul Eluard
YOU ARE LIKENESS Do you lie: water unfolds. You are the water diverted by eddies, are the earth that takes root, and where everything is based do bubbles of silence in the silence of the roars. Singing hymns of night rainbow ropes. You’re everywhere Abolish every street. You sacrifice the time to youth eternal flame exact, which veils the …
Read More »FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO (1504/1570), ITALIAN PAINTER: Shades of Parmigianino, to the Court of Fontainebleau
TIMELESS BOOKS, To Kill a Mockingbird: The existential shades of a childhood, in a sleepy Southern town
Compassionate, dramatic, and moving. To Kill A Mockingbird – a novel by Harper Lee –Â takes readers to the roots of human behavior – to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. The existential shades of this novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town, and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, became both …
Read More »YOUR HOUSE IN GREECE, SKOPELOS: Holidays in Sporades Islands
I see a little bit of sadness in your eyes, because to go away from the island of Skiathos made you sad. Do not worry, in fact, we will not have to cross a great sea to get to the island of Skopelos, also in this archipelago of islands Sporades. Why, today I want to go with you on this …
Read More »ALL LETTERS OF LOVE: Poetry, by Fernando Pessoa
ALL LETTERS OF LOVE All love letters are ridiculous. Would not be love letters if they were not ridiculous. I also wrote in my time love letters, like the others, ridiculous. Love letters, if there is love, must be ridiculous. But after all, only those who have never written love letters are ridiculous. I wish it were still the time …
Read More »MOON: Poetry, by Hai Zi
MOON Chimney smoke up and down. The moon is a white ape digging a well. The moon is a white ape smiling wanly on the river how many times blood trickles out of the sky. The white ape flows past a bell tower. The moon is a white ape smiling wanly. The moon breaks its own heart (Hai Zi) http://www.amazon.com/Autumn-Rooftops-English-Chinese-Edition/dp/0924047763 …
Read More »ROSSO FIORENTINO (1494/1540), ITALIAN PAINTER: Master in oil and fresh, belonging to the Florentine school.
YOUR HOUSE IN GREECE: Holidays in Sporades Islands, Skiathos
You’ll find lush landscaping, yes, in Greece. You find pine-clad mountains, rivers, and (of course), beaches without borders. If you like privacy (of course), you can choose from many coves, really suitable for complete relaxation. You will not find more pirates on these islands, but a special folklore, full of lively traditions.http://www.skiathos.gr/ Among these islands, today we offer Skiatos, because …
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