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Memorial

Memorial plaque for the partisans in San Giuseppe della Chiusa - Ricmanje

General Warehouse

Bleeding Rosandra

Monte Carso

Wellness Center: Blood, Sweat and Tears

(photo by Nereo C.)

bus stop

A clear line between concrete and nature

(Via Dè Guardi)

vanishing skyscraper

The flash of nature (#5)

Rosenquist and the wolves

The flash of nature (#4)

My camera and the tuna fish

The flash of nature (#3)

detail of
Robert Longo
(1953 Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Untitled
2008
Charcoal on paper
cm 179x245

The flash of nature (#2)

A master among masters
Ansel Adams

(1902 San Francisco, USA - 1984 Carmel-by-the-Sea, USA)

El Capitan, Sunrise

1952

Print on Baryta paper

cm 24x18

The flash of nature (#1)

Today is the last day of "The flash of nature" exhibition held at the "Salone degli incanti", featuring paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos and installations by 82 contemporary artists from 18 different countries. Through a sequence of sublime images, it has presented symbols of the force and the beauty of Mother Nature at this time of environmental uncertainty and climate change.

Happy Easter

Hotel

Androna Dei Coppa

flower power

environmental disaster *

Picture taken from the same place as the one published on Friday.
* An environmental disaster is a disaster to the natural environment due to human activity, which distinguishes it from the concept of a natural disaster (wiki).

Who can protect us from the Civil Protection ?

This picture does absolutely no justice to the beauty of the place, but it is the only one I have and I'll never be able to take any more. This magical place, this arch of trees, many of them over forty years old, no longer exists. In its place there is currently only desolation waiting painfully for nature to take back an area devastated by human ignorance.

If you want to know what I'm talking about, watch this video, check out this facebook page and come to the demonstration on Sunday, April 1 at 12:00 at the scene of the crime.

Miramar

All the pictures posted over the last four days are details I hunted down in the park of Miramare. A ball adorning a staircase, the shadows of the vases on the balustrades, a detail of the castle and, finally, today's fountain located in the square in front of the entrance to the castle.

Brava "mytrieste" who guessed it and brava Lionella who wrote the answer on the facebook page.

Where am I?

(3rd clue)

Where am I ?

(2nd clue)

Where am I ?

(1st clue)

Walled door with alabarda

Via San Servolo

Barcola...

...from a dirty train window

Via Gioacchino Murat

P..attumiera 18

Waves

(giardino di via san michele)

Via della Bora

Casa del Fauno

via Commerciale n.25

Giant earthworm caged at last!

Stream (1998 - 2012)

(Photo by Nereo C.)

Vase of flowers

Saiba

Modernization works on the Bersaglieri wharf have brought to light an old .... saiba.

Saiba: In the jargon of port workers, this is a railway turntable with two rails crossing each other to move the rail cars by 90 degrees and direct them onto the rails running to the end of the piers. (translated from M.Doria - the dictionary of Trieste dialect)

The wagon was pulled onto the Saiba by oxen, or more recently, pushed on by a small tractor. To prevent the tractor coming off the Saiba a paiz (a long, heavy stick) was stuck under one of its wheels by a Paizer, the man whose job this was. This was a very dangerous operation, and would be unthinkable under today's "health and safety" regulations.

(photo by Nereo C.)

moonlight

Via Ottaviano Augusto

skyline

/ˈrōˌbät/ 2b

Bacino Sacchetta Marina

Piazzale Marinai d'Italia

Bagno Ausonia

side effect

One side effect of several days of strong Bora wind: plastic bags hanging from trees - they often remain there, in tatters, for over a year, till someone prunes the tree.

El Pedocin

Been up in upim?

molo audace

Carneval

Kraški pust

last page

Emperor Franz Joseph

Emperor Franz Joseph I, c. 1915
Ludwig Michalek (1859 - 1942)
Charcoal on canvas
90.8 x 106.2 cm

On display in Palazzo Gopcevich until 1st April 2012 (U.S. Ultima Sigaretta Italo Svevo e il Buon Proposito)

This portrait shows the emperor working at his desk and smoking a Regalia Media, one of his favourite cigars, in a meerschaum cigar holder. The cigar holder meant that the emperor could smoke while he worked since it stopped the smoke getting in his eyes.