Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts

Saturday, December 12, 2009

The monumental fountain, Faenza, Italy



Faenza is an Italian city and comune, in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, situated 50 km southeast of Bologna.
Faenza, at the foot of the first Subapennine hills, enjoys a fine location and evocative agrarian surroundings: vineyards in the hills, cultivated land with traces of the ancient Roman land-division system, and fertile market gardens in the plains. In the nearby green valleys of the rivers Samoggia and Lamone there are great number of 18th and 19th century stately homes, set in extensive grounds or preceded by long cypress-lined driveways.
Opposite the Cathedral are the open gallery known as the Goldsmiths' Portico, built in the first decade of the 17th century, and the monumental fountain whose bronzes date to the same period.

Sent by Alfredo, tnx!
i like the stamp on the postcard so much...men in uniform, whohoo!:)))

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Italy - Rosolina Mare



Rosolina is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about 40 km south of Venice. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,303 and an area of 73.1 km². The municipality of Rosolina contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Isola di Albarella and Rosolina Mare.