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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
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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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Castelluccio Norcia: Photo Workshop Through Some of the Most Spectacular Scenery in Italy.

Posted on 16 July 2014 by patnicholas in PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Picturesque No Comments
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A photo workshop day trip from Orvieto to the Sibilline Mountains in July. Castelluccio di Norcia is well known the world over amongst photographers for its picturesque vales of wild flowers at all times of the year – except when it is under snow which at 1500m is for most of the winter. It is […]

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Pine Away

Posted on 26 June 2014 by patnicholas in Endangered, ETRUSCAN PLACES, GETTING ABOUT, ITALIAN WAY OF LIFE 19 Comments
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The umbrella pine, supreme among Mediterranean trees since Etrusco-Roman times is, to quote the woman in our local nursery here in Orvieto, fuori moda, out of fashion. How can this be? Known also as the Italian Stone Pine it is recognised all over the world as an Italian icon. So I ordered two for €45 […]

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Grand Tour: Radicofani on the Cassia.

Posted on 9 May 2014 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
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Following the ancient Via Cassia, our photography workshop follows the Grand Tour route. The Val d’Orcia,  famous and  beloved site of modern photographers and artists in Tuscany,  to the traveller of yore it was just a desolate region to be got through. For nigh on a thousand years Rome had been the goal of pilgrims following the […]

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Photo workshop in Rome: a three day tour starting at St. Peters

Posted on 22 April 2014 by patnicholas in PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Rome No Comments
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Join the Camera Etrusca weekend photo workshop in Rome to discover the artists that contributed to its grandeur. The Rome workshop started on the first day with a visit to The Vatican a short walk from our B&B in Prati. We arrived at St Peter’s at 9 to avoid the crowds and only had to […]

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Photoworkshop in Orvieto: Corpus Domini Festival.

Posted on 5 April 2014 by patnicholas in Festivals in Tuscia, ITALIAN WAY OF LIFE, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
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A photography workshop in Italy could not be based in a more appealing place than Orvieto, in Umbria, but on the borders of both Tuscany and Latium. Orvieto is girded by city walls, fortresses, towers and gatehouses. You can walk the entire circumference below the walls on an easy, well made path in a little […]

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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
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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
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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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