Pesci sul banco al mercato di Palma.
Queste sono le ultime foto che ho scattato, diverso tempo fa ormai, al mercato (mercado) di Palma di Maiorca.
Pesci, che sembrano freschi, di tutti i tipi e, nella seconda foto, gamberi e scampi.
Ce n’è per tutti i gusti!
Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Canon EF-S10.
The church of Santa Sabina in Trigoso.
The splendid façade of the Church of Trigoso, the beautiful hamlet of Sestri Levante, and its cobblestone churchyard.
Cobblestones are small stones, from the sea or the river, rounded and smoothed by water. Widely used in Liguria, black and white are often used to create designs.
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Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Canon EF-S 10-18.
This is just one of the many photos I took in the small village of Trigoso. You can find all the others here:
Here is where the church is located:
La necropoli di Pantalica, vicino a Siracusa.
Qualche settimana fa sono stato in crociera dalla mia amata e, dal momento che le tappe del viaggio erano tutte nuove per me, ho fatto tutte le escursioni.
Nella tappa di Siracusa sono andato a vedere la splendida necropoli preistorica di Pantalica, uno stretto canyon nella terra calcarea che millenni fa aveva ospitato degli insediamenti e quindi anche delle tombe.
Le tombe, a centinaia (forse migliaia), erano scavate nella pietra (calcarea appunto) e se ne vedono moltissime.
Il giro, anche una bella passeggiata nella natura, di un’oretta lungo il canyon è stato molto bello e, in qualche tratto, leggermente avventuroso!
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Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Canon EF-S 10-18.
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Costituisce uno dei più importanti luoghi protostorici siciliani, utile per comprendere il momento di passaggio dall’età del bronzo all’età del ferro nell’isola. Viene poeticamente, ma non scientificamente, identificata con l’antica Hybla, un regno siculo che dal XIII all’VIII sec a.C. si estendeva dalla valle dell’Anapo a Siracusa.
Nel 2005 il sito è stato insignito, insieme con la città di Siracusa, del titolo di Patrimonio dell’umanità da parte dell’UNESCO per l’alto profilo storico, archeologico, speleologico e paesaggistico.
The necropolis of Pantalica, near Syracuse – La nécropole de Pantalica, près de Syracuse – La necrópolis de Pantalica, cerca de Siracusa – A necrópole de Pantalica, perto de Siracusa – Die Nekropole von Pantalica, in der Nähe von Syrakus – Nghĩa địa của Pantalica, gần Syracuse – 锡拉丘兹附近的潘塔利卡墓地 – シラキュース近くのパンタリカのネクロポリス
Una bella villa a Sant’Anna a Sestri Levante.
A chi frequenta il mio sito sarà capitato di capire che mi piace fotografare (oltre a tutto il resto) anche le case e le ville che esteticamente reputo degne di nota.
Ad esempio per questa bella villa, che si trova a Sant’Anna, non ho potuto esimermi dal fotografare.
Ho scoperto, grazie ai molti commenti su Facebook, che una volta era una pensione. Aggiungi un comment or go to the bottom of the site to read what other visitors have written.
Photo taken with Canon 600D and lens Tamron 16-300.
Ecco dove si trova questa splendida villa:
Palmito, or heart of palm, tasted in Montevideo.
It's been a long time since I took this photo and I just hadn't managed to publish it yet.
This is a South American food, the heart of a certain type of palm that is cut into pieces and preserved in oil or vinegar.
I've eaten it several times in Brazil even though the photo was taken at the Mercado in Montevideo.
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Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Canon EF-M 22.
Palmito or more commonly heart of palm is a type of food obtained from some types of palms, such as açaì, babaçu, juçara, chontaduro. These species of palms are grown mainly in South America, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Argentina, in swampy areas and along tropical rivers.
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Walnut sauce to season pansoti, the recipe.
Today I decided to write you the recipe for one of the most famous sauces in Liguria. Obviously the first, and most famous, is pesto alla genovese but connoisseurs know that with walnuts you can prepare a delicious sauce with which you season the classic pansoti or trofie.
Ingredients:
– Walnuts
– A slice of stale bread
– Milk
– Garlic
– Marjoram
– Salt
– Oil
First, take a slice of bread and soak it in a little milk.
Then boil the shelled walnuts for a couple of minutes.
Once the walnuts are hot (don't leave them too long, please) you need to do a very complicated and boring operation: peel the walnuts from their skin.
To tell the truth, lately we don't do it anymore at my house, so my sauce has a slightly more bitter taste than the classic one.
To finalize the preparation now there are two ways: the marble mortar (the same one used for pesto) or the blender.
The choice is yours.
Add the bread, walnuts, garlic (very little, mind you, half a clove is enough), salt, marjoram and oil to the peeled walnuts and start beating with the pestle (or blending) until you reach a creamy consistency.
Adjust by adding a little milk if the sauce is too thick.
Now the sauce is ready to be combined with the chosen pasta.
In the comments there are different positions on whether to add Parmesan or not. Add a comment and explain to us how you prepare this sauce.
In this case, some vegetable ravioli-shaped pansoti:
The Codex Purpureus Rossanensis in Rossano.
One of the most important manuscripts in the world (it is said to be among the six best preserved) is found in this small town in Calabria.
It was a surprise because, like probably many of those reading this, I did not know it.
It is a gospel, written in Greek, and is called purpureus because of the color of the parchment.
Found (or at least rediscovered) only at the end of the 19th century in the sacristy of the Cathedral of Rossano and is now on display in the diocesan museum of the same town.
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Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Canon EF-S 10-18.
This is the official website: codexrossanensis.it.
To see all the photos I took in Rossano, of the town, of the Cathedral, of the Cathedral of Maria Santissima Achiropita and of the Diocesan Museum click here:
The Codex Purpureus Rossanensis is a Greek uncial manuscript from the 6th century, preserved in Rossano in the Diocesan and Codex museum and containing a Gospel book with texts from Matthew and Mark. It owes the adjective “Purpureus” to the fact that its pages are reddish (in Latin purpureus) and contains a series of miniatures that make it one of the oldest illuminated manuscripts of the New Testament preserved.
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La Baia del Silenzio il 13 maggio 2020.
Il mio soggetto preferito, quando sono a casa, è la Baia del Silenzio.
La amo fotografare in tutte le maniere ed in tutte le giornate: ha sempre fascino.
Qui eravamo a metà maggio, in una giornata uggiosa di quasi fine lockdown. Erano i primi giorni in cui si potevano fare delle passeggiate all’aperto all’interno del territorio del proprio comune.
Fortunato me!
Photo taken with Canon EOS M100, lente Canon EF-S 10-18 e filtro ND1000.
La spiaggia di Sant’Anna vista dal drone.
Era diverso tempo che avevo realizzato la foto ed il video che vi posto oggi.
Eravamo ancora a metà settembre nella Baia delle Favole, in fondo verso le gallerie di Sant’Anna e si poteva ancora mangiare la classica pizza in spiaggia.
Io mi sono portato il drone e ho fatto qualche ripresa e qualche foto.
I colori del mare mi piacciono moltissimo.
Photo taken with the drone DJI Mavic Mini.
E questo il video con lo stesso soggetto:
Vi rimando al sito di promozione turistica della mia Sestri Levante: sestri-levante.net. This is the official website of the town's municipality: comune.sestri-levante.ge.it.
Se siete alla ricerca di un bel portale sulla Liguria vi invito a visitare: lamialiguria.it.
If you want to read or buy some guide or book about Sestri Levante and Tigullio I invite you to see these books: Escursioni a Levante, Da Sestri Levante alle Cinque Terre or Il giro del Levante ligure.
The church of San Giovanni Battista in Chiavari.
The religious building in the centre of Chiavari built at the end of 1100 and which houses the crucifix of the Black Christ, very famous in the city.
The simple façade in an equally simple churchyard surrounded by the splendid little streets with the typical porticoes of Chiavari.
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Photo taken with Canon EOS M100 and lens Canon EF-S 10-18.
Here is where the church is located:
The Black Christ is a wooden crucifix kept in the parish church of San Giovanni Battista. It is considered miraculous.
It comes from the church of the Disciplinanti, destroyed by fire in 1600. Only the crucifix was saved from the fire, which, according to pious tradition, remained black since it was impossible to clean it.
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