Recent Posts Tagged With 'italy'

• Laurentian Library, Florence

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 15:29 in italy

  This card has never been through the mail.  I bought it when I was on holiday in Florence in August 1993 and I know I can be sure of the date because we were there just a few short months after the Uffizi Gallery was bombed. The library was b...

• Venice, the Grand Canal

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 15:47 in italy

  Postmarked Venice (Venezia) and dated 2 August 1971. Grand Canal - the Domes of the Salute Church. This was sent by me to my sister on my very first visit to Venice.  It captured my heart all that time ago, and it remains one of my favourite ...

• Milan, Italy

  Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 15:41 in italy

  Posted in Milan on 22 October 1976. Milano Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II This is a glass-vaulted arcaded shopping street in Milan, or rather two intersecting streets forming a cross.  It links the opera house with the cathedral.  Where th...

• Varazze, the beach

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 15:17 in italy, vintage

  Unused and undated. Varazze is on the Italian Riviera, between Genoa and Savona.  It's a place with an interesting history - it started off as an offshoot of a Roman military post, then was fought over by various factions, once even becoming p...

• Postcard fashion

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 15:46 in italy, Ireland

  Postmarked Dublin, dated 5 August 1978. Howth Castle, nine miles north-east of Dublin, is one of Co. Dublin's chief beauty-spots and is reputed for its prolific and beautiful rhododendron.  The Hill of Howth (560ft.) affords remarkable views of...

• Treviso, the Buranelli Canal

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 02:35 in italy

  Postmarked Padova, dated 20 December 2008. Treviso. Il Canale dei Buranelli. Treviso. The Buranelli stream. Treviso is an attractive and prosperous town not very far from Venice, and to some extent it bears some resemblance, especially in this illus...

• UNESCO WHS week: Padua

  Posted on Saturday May 2nd, 2009 at 00:57 in italy, unesco

  Postmarked Paova CMP, dated 11 April 2009. Orto Botanico dell'Universita di Padova. The world's first botanical garden was created in Padua in 1545. It still preserves its original layout – a circular central plot, symbolizing the world, surrou...