The saga continues. In the interest of saving time and making the most out of my weak internet connection, the few postings I'll add this summer will be somewhat photo intensive.
Having presented a paper in Lisbon, I made my way across Portugal and Spain to the waiting archives of Sevilla by way four separate buses. Along the way I spent the night in Évora, Portugal, a town of such cultural and historical importance that it bears the distinction of being a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amongst the more memorable sites were the Roman Temple of Diana, the cathedral or Sé, the Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval, a number of impressive tiled churches, the grounds of the local university, and the Capela dos Ossos - an ossuary chapel fashioned out of the remains of the town's medieval inhabitants with a welcome across the doorway that read "
Nós ossos que aqui estamos pelos vossos esperamos" ("We bones here wait for yours"). And yes, those are desiccated corpses (adult and child) hanging from the wall.
Well, the weather could have been a whole of a lot better and I could have remembered to snap a shot of a red telephone booth, but all in all not a bad day trip. I did manage to avoid getting burglarized by the monkeys.
You can just make out Morocco peaking above the haze in the upper left hand side. The Spanish coast lies to the right.
I made it back to Milano this year and though I won't go into much detail about the sights, I couldn't resist a few shots of the city's awesome architectural heritage. The trip also included visits to the joint UNESCO World Heritage sites of Mantova and Sabbioneta in addition to a day in Venezia.
Mantova
Sabbioneta
Venezia
The saga continues. In the interest of saving time and making the most out of my weak internet connection, the few postings I'll add this summer will be somewhat photo intensive.
