Liguria is a region studded with ancient villages, more or less popular, by the shore or on the cliffs. Climate is various. You can find sunny and warm winter days by the sea as ice and fog covering the inland between canyons and forgotten pits. This winter is not that usual, perhaps the unusual got […]
Have nice XMas holidays and a happy New Year!
Here we are, Christmas and the New Year are arriving. The website of Franconiphotos is ready to turn three years on line. A year full of challenges and important photographic mission is ending. The photographic exhibition “here they fought! 1914-1918” is traveling not only around Italy but also around Europe. During the first months of […]
Milan and the panettone legend.
Walking around Milan downtown during Xmas time it will happen to you to see many confectioners’ shops showing their best panettone but which is its origin? There are two legends, the most reliable is the one of the Pan de Toni, “bread of Toni”. It is necessary to date back to fifteen century when Milan […]
London by night under the dim lights of Brexit.
It’s the first time that I go back to London after the Brexit referendum. Thinking that in the future it will be probably out of the Union is a painful thought. Walking down the streets this uncertainty situation is all around, the topic is on every newspapers’ front page. In these days the Supreme Court […]
The curious Chamois.
Two weeks ago I talked about my photographic adventure in the Stelvio Natural Park and I told you about that curious Chamois looking at me from distance, probably surprised to see someone around. Here it is the Chamois, silent and quite. I dedicate this post to the fauna preservation and the importance of natural parks. […]
The mystery of the rotten water fountains of Milan.
Milan is city full of small fountains pouring fresh water. During summer these fountains are a blessing for thirsty people but what about the rotten water fountains? The name is not an inviting one but, despite their name, these fountains were a real panacea. There were three of these fountains and all of them were […]
A photographic mission into the wild of the Alps
Today I tell you about a particular photographic mission, planned a while ago but operative only since the dawn of the past Tuesday after having checked for a long time many environmental parameters. Outside the all-terrain vehicle’s windows I saw the first lights of that day, the Como lake, the first white peaks of the […]
Autumn colors.
Autumn inspired poets, painters, photographers and travelers. Autumn is a mixture of emotions and feelings, perhaps a bit melancholic, it’s an explosion of yellow colors in any possible shade and those leaves falling down symbolizing a summer that has gone. Autumn is a great moment to enjoy roasted chestnuts, to enjoy a yellow wood by […]
The horses of the Arch of Peace.
Milan is a city full of curiosities and the Arch of Peace has its own story to tell. Placed in the centre of the open space just behind the Sempione Park, the Arch of Peace looks directly Paris creating a line from the Ville Lumière and the centre of Milan. The construction of the Arch […]
There is something not so clear.
I’m in Piedmont region in a country house up on a hillside surrounded by vineyards. I chat with my godmother. She is her mid eighty. The TV News in background talks about the US – Russia crisis, of the economic crisis and many other similar news. She looks at me and she starts telling me: […]