Images from Italy Licha & Ian Travel (Oct 2010)

1. VIVA ITALIA! (Photo Album - Italy)
PhotoAlbum
VariousViewsfromItalyfrom
LichaandIan’shoneymoon

2. Venezia, IT
ImagesfromVenice

3. VENICE – View from the Grand Canal

4. VENICE – Ian on the banks of one of the canals

5. VENICE –Licha relaxing in one of the piazzas

6. VENICE – View of the “Bacino di San Marco”
(Saint Mark Basin)

7. VENICE – View of Piazza San Marco (View from St Mark's Campanile )
Piazza San Marco (often known in English as Saint Mark's Square), is the principal square of
Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as "the Piazza".

8. VENICE – View St Mark's Clocktower
The Clock Tower is an early renaissance building on the north side of the Piazza San Marco at the entrance to the Merceria. It is comprised of a
tower, which contains the clock, and lower buildings on each side. It adjoins the eastern end of the Procuratie Vecchie. Both the tower and the
clock date from the last decade of the 15th century, though the mechanism of the clock has subsequently been much altered.

9. VENICE – View of “Il Piazzetta di San Marco” (The ‘Little Piazza‘)
The Piazzetta di San Marco is an open space extension of the Piazza connecting the south side of the Piazza to the waterway of the lagoon. The Piazzetta lies
between the Doge's Palace on the east and Jacopo Sansovino's Libreria which holds the Biblioteca Marciana on the west. It is open to the lagoon at the
mouth of the Grand Canal where two tall columns bearing symbols of Venice's two patrons, St Mark and St Theodore, stand facing the water's edge.

10. Licha and Ian overlooking Il Piazzetta di San Marco

11. Licha and Ian overlooking Il Piazzetta di San Marco

12. St Mark and St Theodore
(two tall columns bearing symbols of Venice's two patrons )

13. St Mark and St Theodore
(two tall columns bearing symbols of Venice's two patrons )

14. VENICE – View of San Giorgio Maggiore
(one of the islands of Venice)

15. VENICE – View from the Grand Canal

16. VENICE – View of “Campanile di San Marco” (St Mark's Campanile)
(View from the Canale di San Marco )

17. View of “Campanile di San Marco”
(St Mark's Campanile)
St Mark's Campanile (Campanile di San
Marco in Italian) is the bell tower of St Mark's
Basilica in Venice, Italy, located in the square
(piazza) of the same name. It is one of the
most recognizable symbols of the city.
•The tower is 98.6 metres (323 ft) tall, and
stands alone in a corner of St Mark's Square,
near the front of the basilica.
•It has a simple form, the bulk of which is a
fluted brick square shaft, 12 metres (39 ft)
wide on each side and 50 metres (160 ft) tall,
above which is a loggia surrounding the belfry,
housing five bells.
•The belfry is topped by a cube, alternate
faces of which show the Lion of St. Mark and
the female representation of Venice (la
Giustizia: Justice).
•The tower is capped by a pyramidal spire, at
the top of which sits a golden weathervane in
the form of the archangel Gabriel.
•The campanile reached its present form in
1514. The current tower was reconstructed in
its present form in 1912 after the collapse of
1902.

18. VENICE – Licha and Ian at the top of the “Campanile di San Marco”

19. Various Views from the Canale di San Marco

20. Views of “Ponte di Rialto” (Rialto Bridge) Views from the Bridge

21. Siena, IT
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22. Views from Siena, IT
“Duomo di Siena” – (The Cathedral of Siena) “Torre del Mangia” – (Tower of the Eater)
located in the Piazza del Campo

23. Siena’s enormous public square

24. Firenze, IT
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25. En route to Firenze from Venezia by train

26. Views from the top of the Dome

27. Views of Giotto's Bell Tower from the top of the Dome

28. Views of Firenze
Views of Firenze
Views of Firenze

29. Licha with Firenze backdrop

30. Views of the “Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore”
Views of the “Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore” (The Florence Cathedral)

31. In front of the Santa Maria cathedral

32. Views from “Ponte Vecchio” (Old Bridge)
•The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge", Italian pronunciation:
[ponte vɛkkjo]) is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in
Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as
was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the
present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers.

33. On the Ponte Vecchio

34. At a café after crossing the Ponte Vecchio

35. Views from “I Giardini di Boboli”
(The Boboli Gardens)

36. Ian in front of the Medici Palace

37. Tuscany (Wine Country)
ImagesfromtheVineyardsatGreve-in-Chianti

38. Views of the Vineyards (captured from various angles)

39. Licha and Ian at Castello di Verrazzano, overlooking the vineyard

40. Licha and Ian at a Wine Tasting at Castello di Verrazzano

41. Licha and Ian at dinner in Firenze with some Swedes we
met earlier that day at our vineyard tour

42. Barrels of wine
The wine ferments for three years in barrels
Wine cellar where the wine ages after being bottled
Grapes drying out

43. ROMA, IT
ImagesfromRome

44. Views from within “Piazza San Pietro” (Saint Peter's Square)

45. More Views from within “Piazza San Pietro” (Saint Peter's Square)

46. Licha and Ian in St. Peter’s Square

47. Guards in St. Peter’s Square
awaiting the Pope’s entrance
to the Square for weekly
outdoor mass on
Wednesdays

48. Pope Benedict XVI riding through St. Peter’s Square in the Pope-mobile

49. Pope Benedict XVI blessing the crowd at St. Peter’s Square

50. Licha and Ian at the Vatican

51. Licha and Ian at the Vatican, with the Dome of St. Peter’s Bascilica in the background

52. “Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II” (National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II)
Also Known As: “Altare della Patria” (Altar of the Fatherland) or "Il Vittoriano“ and the “Wedding Cake”

54. Views of “il Colosseo”
(The Colosseum)
The Colosseum, originally known as
the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin:
“Amphitheatrum Flavium”, or Italian
“Anfiteatro Flavio”), is an elliptical
amphitheatre in the centre of Rome,
Italy, the largest ever built in the
Roman Empire. It is considered one
of the greatest works of Roman
architecture and Roman engineering.

55. Views from the Inside of The Colosseum
Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts,
executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on classical mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early
medieval era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a quarry, and a Christian shrine.

56. Licha and Ian inside the Colosseum

58. Licha and Ian at the Roman Forums

59. Views of The Pantheon
The Pantheon is a building in Rome, commissioned
by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods
of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt by Emperor
Hadrian in about 126 AD. The building is
circular with a portico of three ranks of huge
granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first
rank and two groups of four behind) under a
pediment opening into the rotunda, under a
coffered, concrete dome, with a central
opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two
thousand years after it was built, the
Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest
unreinforced concrete dome.

60. Licha and Ian inside the Pantheon

61. Licha and Ian at Trevi Fountain at night

62. Orvieto, IT
ImagesfromOrvieto

63. The cathedral in Orvieto

65. Licha overlooking the Cathedral

66. Ian overlooking the Cathedral

67. Random Street in Orvieto

68. Licha and Ian - picture in Orvieto

69. Licha overlooking the bluff in Orvieto

70. Ian standing at the bluff in Orvieto

71. Orvieto – View overlooking countryside

72. ITALIAN IMAGES (Miscellaneous)
RandomImagesfromsitesvisited
acrossItaliancities

83. Sunset over Venice