Italian streets in San Gimignano // The wonderful Byzantine mosaics at the cathedral in Ravenna // White, white marble and limestone // The town square at San Gimignano // The spectacular, spectacular, breath-taking ceiling decoration at the Cathedral in Siena // Snow falling in the quad at the oldest university in the world in Bologna // Mosaic tiling in Ravenna // The beautiful cathedral in Ravenna // Brick buildings and window boxes in Siena // That quintessential Tuscan view
"Dark in the winter's crystal air arise
Bologna's turrets, and above them laughs
The mountain-slope all whitened by the snows.
It is that mellowest hour when the sun,
His dying salutation on the towers...
The adamantine sky is gleaming cold
In its refulgence, and the air is drawn
O'er the piazza like a silver veil
That lightly brushes with caressing touch
The threatening piles, whose grim walls gather round,
Raised by our fathers' mail-encircled arms."
Giosuè Carducci, In the Piazza of San Petronio
Bologna's turrets, and above them laughs
The mountain-slope all whitened by the snows.
It is that mellowest hour when the sun,
His dying salutation on the towers...
The adamantine sky is gleaming cold
In its refulgence, and the air is drawn
O'er the piazza like a silver veil
That lightly brushes with caressing touch
The threatening piles, whose grim walls gather round,
Raised by our fathers' mail-encircled arms."
Giosuè Carducci, In the Piazza of San Petronio
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