Dolce Viaggio Italia

24/08/2022

When you have terrible jet lag you read about and listen to black holes !

“The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!”

28/07/2019

Piazzetta di Capri

Allerta Meteo a Capri e in Campania ⛈
Ecco cosa sta accadendo: http://www.capriforyou.it/meteo-capri.html

09/07/2016

@ lonelyplanet @ travelchannel

27/03/2016

Founded in 2010 by Laura Kyriazis, Dolce Viaggio is quickly becoming the premier authoritative online magazine on travel to Italy designed specifically for its international target focusing on tourism, leisure & culture, entertainment & nightlife, cinema and fashion. Daily features include features on Leisure & Culture, Spas, Restaurant Reviews, Entertainment & Nightlife, Store Locator, Shopping Maps, and everything under the sun for those dreaming of living the vita bella.

Laura Kyriazis, founder of Dolce Viaggio maintains close ties with Italian locals (hotel owners, restaurateurs, vintners, shop owners, artists, archaeologists)—relationships that are strengthened by her reputation in Rome, Capri, Napoli and the Amalfi all the way down to Sicily with emphasis in-depth exploration of Italy and Sicily’s culture and cuisine

23/07/2015

Ballaro Market, Palermo, Sicilia 2011
© 2012 Laura Kyriazis

23/07/2015

Caffe Canova -- Piazza di Popolo -- Roma !
© 2012 Laura Kyriazis

23/07/2015

The magnificent Temple of Concordia, whose name comes from a Latin inscription found nearby, and which was also built in the 5th century BC. Turned into a church in the 6th century AD, it is now one of the best preserved in il Parco Archaeologico e Paesaggistico della Valle dei Templi
The Valle dei Templi (English: Valley of the Temples, Sicilian: Vaddi di li Tempri) is an archaeological site in Agrigento (ancient Greek Akragas), Sicily. It is one of the most outstanding examples of Greater Greece art and architecture, and is one of the main attractions of Sicily as well as a national monument of Italy. The area was included in the UNESCO Heritage Site list in 1997.
© 2012 Laura Kyriazis

23/07/2015

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23/07/2015

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23/07/2015

Il vero Pomodoro Ciliengino con Pistachio e Mandorole ... mmmmm

23/07/2015

Dried tomatoes pomodoro to be found in the various spice markets of the South... found here in the Vuccira Market, Palermo, Sicilia

23/07/2015

Marina Grande, Capri ...

23/07/2015

PALERMO SICILIA !Located a few steps from the Martorana Church and Quattro Canti, the Ballarò market extends from Piazza Ballarò in the Albergheria district (near the church of San Nicolò) along Via Ballarò past Piazza Carmine toward Corso Tukory, roughly parallel to Via Maqueda toward the main train station. Especially in the Arabs' beloved Bal'harm (today's Palermo), where the open air markets occupy narrow medieval streets and the local dialect bears the marks of the Arabic tongue, the visitor might be forgiven for thinking that he or she has wandered into an old quarter in Cairo, Tunis, Jerusalem or Baghdad. Here in Sicily's markets, there are more churches and fewer mosques, more miniskirts and fewer veils, but the character has remained essentially the same over these last nine centuries. That's remarkable if you consider that some of the outdoor markets stand on the very same sites today as they did in the tenth century. With the exception of some Norman-Arab architecture and a number of words in the Sicilian language, the markets are perhaps the best-preserved of Sicily's Arab traditions.

23/07/2015

Ballaro Market, Palermo, Sicilia 2011
© 2012 Laura Kyriazis

23/07/2015

Made famous in the film La Dolce Vita, the Trevi fountain is the largest and most famous Baroque fountain in the world; originally itserved as a display of an ancient roman acqueduct termination.
The acqueduct is the Virgo - Virgin in English - Acqueduct constructed by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa around 19 B:C: Agrippa was the son-in-law and the favorite general of Emperor Octavian Augustus. The acqueduct was 21 km long but 19 were underground.
The acqueduct was built by Agrippa to supply the thermal baths he built in the Campus Martius, by the Pantheon. There was a fountain at the end of the acqueduct already then. The display spilling water was located on the site of the actual Church of St. Ignatius.
According to Sextus Iulius Frontinus' specialised book "De aquaductibus Romae commentarius", the acqueduct takes its name from a virgin lady that the Roman soldiers met when they were thirsty and tired. She lead them to a source of water to restore. That source was in the Ager Locullanus, the land between the Tiburtina road and the Collatina road, two of the many roads that led to Rome. That source still today supplies the acqueduct.
In the 4th Century there were in Rome 1352 fountains (Notitia dignitatum imperii Romani).
The acqueduct was damaged by the invasion of the Ostrogoths led by king Vitigis in 537. After the barbaric invasions the last portion of the acqueduct was abandoned and all the medioeval restorations did not continue further than the trivium crossing.
Starting from the early renaissance the popes start to decorate the end of the acqueducts they restored with large fountains that were richly decorated.

23/07/2015

Room with a View-- the San Domenico Palace, Taormina, Sicilia

23/07/2015

The natural alternative to the pharmaceutical industry... as if the Italians are not spicy already !!

23/07/2015

The true Italian Royalty hails from Rome and Pozzuoli ....