Happy New Year everyone! This week's travel photo is of the Baptistery of St John in Pisa, Italy. Located in Piazza dei Miracoli next to the Cathedral and the famous Leaning Tower, the baptistery was constructed between 1152 and 1363, and is the largest in Italy.
We had a late start on our first morning in Venice. Our trip through Italy was coming to an end, and we were now at the point where we just wanted to take things slower after all of the full on days of sightseeing we had done so far. My plan today was to do [...]
This week's photo is of the Fontana della Barcaccia in Rome, Italy. The fountain sits in Piazza di Spagna, where the famous Spanish Steps rise up the hill to the Trinità dei Monti church. The fountain was built between 1627 and 1629, thought to have been designed by Bernini.
The Colosseum is the most popular tourist attraction in Rome, Italy, and one of the most well known structures in the world. Completed in the year 80AD, the Colosseum is the largest arena that was ever built by the Roman Empire and was able to hold 50,000 people. The arena was used to host gladiator [...]
We only had a couple of days to explore the area south of Naples on our tour of Italy. One of those days would be dedicated to the ruins of Pompeii, so we only had one day spare to visit Italy's famous Amalfi Coast. Although we had experienced amazing weather in Rome, so far during [...]
This week's photo is of a lonely bench sitting next to an old bath or pond, in the ancient ruins of Pompeii, Italy. The Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed in 79AD when the nearby volcano, Mount Vesuvius, erupted. The catastrophic eruption sent huge waves of heat and ash into the city, instantly killing it's inhabitants [...]
I absolutely love the culture in Italy, from the food to the art, I just always want to be out and about wandering the streets. There are a lot of buskers in Italy, nearly every city and town that I went through had someone playing an instrument or doing some other type of interesting performance. [...]
Something that I love about Italy in general are it's amazing piazzas, and Piazza Navona is one of the best in Rome. Standing in the place of the ancient Roman Stadium of Domitian, the piazza has kept the long shape of the original building. Piazza Navona was built up to what it is today during [...]
After visiting the beautiful old town of Siena the day before, I was excited to continue on the medieval path through Tuscany to the small town of San Gimignano. Like many towns in the area, it originated as an Etruscan village but was built up into the town it is today during the middle ages. [...]
This week's photo is of a typical canal view in Venice, Italy. One of my favourite things to do in Venice is to just wander the streets and get lost. You can see some amazing sites this way.
