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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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Hidden Treasure to photograph: the campo santo, a gem found in an abandoned cemetery in Chianti

Posted on 4 July 2013 by patnicholas in LOST SITES 1 Comment
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 Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade Where heaves the turf in many a mould’ring heap Each in his narrow cell for ever laid The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep Gray’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard (written in Stoke Poges) The drift from the land from the 1950s onward has left many Italian villages […]

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Hidden Treasure to photograph: The Roman Tunnel, Lake Albano near Rome Italy

Posted on 1 July 2013 by patnicholas in ETRUSCAN PLACES, LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Rome 1 Comment
Lake_Albano, Castelgandolfo

Rome is known as the Eternal City and no city on earth has a comparable wealth of ancient ruins. The tireless documentor of  Roman ruins Piranesi (1720-78) made a good living selling his topographical images to visitors on the Grand Tour. But whereas Canaletto used lenses and the camera obscura to ensure that his views […]

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Place to photograph around Rome: The Temple of Diana in Nemi

Posted on 23 June 2013 by patnicholas in LOST SITES, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY, Rome 4 Comments
vesta temple nemi

Italy has an extraordinary amount of antiquities that are simply abandoned; no ticket office, no maintenance, no security, just overgrown. Sometimes I come across a place purely by chance, sometimes I have been tipped off by a local, sometimes because I have read about it and have made a search. I will endeavour to post […]

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Photo Workshops with Colourful Benefits in Tuscany

Posted on 31 May 2013 by patnicholas in GETTING ABOUT, ITALIAN WAY OF LIFE, PHOTO WORKSHOPS and PHOTO TOURS in ITALY No Comments
Photo workshop during the wildflowers season

Late Spring: The Season of Wildflower in Italy. Spring in Italy may have been slow in coming this year, but all that rain means even more wild flowers – especially poppies. Come to Tuscany and Umbria in June and you will see the brightest and most colourful wild flowers anywhere in Europe. Normally poppies last […]

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