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Photo Excursion to Castro on our Photography Tour in Italy.

Posted on 27 April 2015 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
Patrick Nicholas ruins Castro

An Off-the-beaten-track photography tour to the ruined city of Castro. Destroyed by the Pope in 1649, Castro was given the epithet The Carthage of the Maremma and today it could be defined as the Renaissance Pompeii. In April 2015 we went on a photo tour to the ruined city of Castro. 415 years ago a […]

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Creepy Places to photograph in Tuscany: Castle Cahen, a Mock-Gothic Style Mansion of the Late Nineteenth Century in Italy.

Posted on 28 March 2015 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
Cahen_Tomb

Mock Gothic Horror: painted by Whistler, photographed by Cameron, the tragic story of Christine Spartali, Contessa Cahen. Near Orvieto on a ridge looking over a deep valley into Southern Tuscany stands a sinister looking castle in the mock-Gothic style of the late nineteenth century. It once belonged to the immensely rich Cahen family, still remembered […]

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Hidden treasure to photograph: Octagonal Church Ruin in Val di Lago, Bolsena

Posted on 8 March 2014 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, Lake Bolsena, LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
S.Lorenzo.vecchio_LakeBolsena

The ancient church occupies a site once sacred to the Etruscans. Lake Bolsena was the centre of their cult. The charm of the place lies in its desolate remoteness in the swamps near Lake Bolsena. Until the 1920s malaria was the scourge of the Italy. Often entire communities were decimated because the origins of the […]

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Hidden treasure to photograph: an enchanted secret garden, Stranglers Park in Pitigliano, Tuscany.

Posted on 25 February 2014 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Pitigliano 1 Comment
orsini park

Just outside Pitigliano lies the Parco Orsini commonly known locally as Stranglers Park, and thereby hangs a tale………… Orso Orsini was a prince of wild ways. Wayward brother of the cultured condottiero Niccolò, he married the beautiful Eleanora degli Atti di Morlupo, whose name was long but her life short. He strangled her in a […]

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Poggio Conte – Part 2

Posted on 25 January 2014 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
altar Poggio Conte

There is an extraordinary atmosphere in the sacred glade so it is no surprise that this has been a sacred place for thousands of years. The Sacred Glade was Christianised, but something of the ancient magic remained: the frescoes that remain in the church are testimony to that. The church was cut into the rock […]

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Poggio Conte – Part 1, The Sacred Glade

Posted on 8 January 2014 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
Poggio Conte Eremo san Colomba

“Sunrise glowed red as I climbed along the gorge; when I reached the grove, I saw the altar slab all scattered with brightness, like the harper’s robe. I put down my load, and prayed to Apollo.” Poggio Conte will appear immediately familiar to anyone who has read Mary Renault’s The King Must Die, a novel […]

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Hidden Treasure to photograph: the hermitage of Ripatonna, South Tuscany.

Posted on 12 December 2013 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
ripatonna cicognina

One of the interesting lost sites within an hour of Orvieto we made a Camera Etrusca excursion to the hermitage of Ripatonna. Much of what is now known as northern Latium north of Rome on the borders of Tuscany was until the 1930s a veritable wilderness. Saracen pirates had scourged the area and malaria had […]

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Hidden Treasure to photograph: Diana’s Baths in Castelgandolfo, Rome

Posted on 14 November 2013 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Rome No Comments
Diana baths Castelgandolfo

I have no idea why, but it was my dream as a child to find underground Roman ruins at the bottom of the garden. This dream was to come true when my wife and I moved to Castel Gandolfo in 2002. We rented a flat in the grounds of a villa once owned by Visconti, bought […]

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