I tour di Bea

20/10/2021

Myconian landscapes

27/07/2021

The Flavian amphitheatre, better known as the Colosseum. On a typical day in the arena people could watch animal hunts in the morning, with tigers, rhinos, giraffes, lions brought here from Africa ( venationes ). At lunch time there were the executions of criminals fed to the animals ( ad bestias) and in the afternoon the most famous entertainments, the gladiatorial combats ( munera). Gladiators were cheered by the crowd like modern football players.

11/07/2021

Inside the Pantheon, the best preserved temple of the roman empire, turned into a church. The tomb of the painter Raphael and those of the former kings of Italy are here.

11/06/2021

The windmills, one of the most famous landmarks of Mykonos, and of many cycladic islands, they were used to grind the grain for making flour in the past.

21/05/2021

A beautiful portrait of Octavian Augustus, the first emperor of the roman empire, displayed in the Braccio Nuovo section of the Vatican Museums.

15/05/2021

15/05/2021

One of the largest domes in Rome, lavishly decorated by Domenichino and Giovanni Lanfranco in the XVII cent. Roman Baroque

07/05/2021

Aegean blue in Platis Yalos

01/05/2021

the Appian way, the first ancient superhighway built in the IV cent. BC that connected Rome to the port of Brundisium, nowadays Brindisi.

24/04/2021

The park of the Acqueducts in the southern part of Rome. You can stroll along the ruins of 2 ancient roman acqueducts that were feeding the city with fresh water coming from the surrounding hills.

12/04/2021

Porto Rafti, east coast of the athenian riviera. Cannot get enough of this aegean blue! 💙🐳

29/03/2021

Athens riviera stretches from the southern suburbs all the way to Cape Sounio for about 70 km.
Spring is finally here 🌞🇬🇷

24/03/2021

The bay of Platis Yalos, in the southern part of Mykonos, seen from Manos Studios appartments,
3 minutes walk from the beach and about 4 km from the airport.
Greece will reopen to international tourism from the 14th of May. 🌞🏖️

11/03/2021

Athens off the beaten track, in the lovely neighbourhood of Peristeri, 6 km north west from central Athens. 🌞🌞

22/01/2021

"The heart of a man is very much like the sea. It has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too." Vincent Van Gogh💙

21/01/2021

Tramonto al Pireo, "O Pireas" , il cuore commerciale di Atene da molti secoli, punto di partenza per le isole della Grecia, un lembo di terra che si affaccia sul mare Egeo.
Ed uno dei miei luoghi ateniesi preferiti. 💙☀️

17/01/2021

Sunny and chilly January ☀️☀️

14/01/2021

The city of hills, horizons and light ☀️

13/01/2021

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories"- Plato

29/12/2020

Azzurri vicini e lontani...💙
Il blu lapislazzuli e' una pietra semipreziosa che proviene dall'Afghanistan. Il pigmento fu utilizzato anche da Michelangelo nella decorazione della Ca****la Sistina.
Filarete nel 1464 scrisse "Il blu piu' bello e' ricavato da una pietra e proviene da terre al di la' dei mari, ed e' percio' detto" oltremare".

28/12/2020

La colonna Traiana con le sue sculture celebra le vittorie militari dell'imperatore Traiano in Dacia, l'attuale Romania. Sotto questo imperatore nato ad Italica, vicino Siviglia, l' impero romano raggiunse la sua massima estensione nel II sec. dopo Cristo.

26/12/2020

Il 26 dicembre, giorno di Santo Stefano in alcuni paesi cattolici e protestanti e il giorno di Emanuele in Grecia, dall'ebraico Immanuel. 💙🎄

25/12/2020

L'albero di Natale 2020 nel centro di Roma🎄🎄

23/12/2020

Un anno greco-romano, super intenso, vissuto tra Grecia ed Italia, Atene e Roma, le culle della civilta' occidentale. Che privilegio! 💙😊

22/12/2020

Tramonto su piazza San Pietro con l'albero di Natale che quest' anno proviene dalla Slovenia😊🌲 🌲🌲