Italy - Feb'05: Florence, Pisa, Rome

Panasonic Lumix FZ20 camera

__Dublin Airport - Claudio's self-photo in the men's room!

__In flight - Sunrise early in the morning

__Fiumicino: engine of the Aer Lingus's Airbus A320

__Florence - S.Maria Novella - Cappellone degli Spagnoli - zoom 36mm

__Florence - S.Maria Novella - Cappellone degli Spagnoli - 290mm

__Florence - Ponte Vecchio - Claudio

__Florence - Palazzo Vecchio - top of the bell tower

__Florence - Palazzo Vecchio - heraldics - 260mm

__Florence - Giotto's bell tower

__Florence - Giotto's bell tower - top

__Florence - From Giotto's tower - view of S.Maria del Fiore cathedral

__Florence - From S.Miniato al Monte - View of Florence - 38mm

__same - zoom 360mm

__Florence - Flavio at San Miniato al Monte

__Florence - San Miniato al Monte - 36m

__same - Christ - 432mm plus 3.1x digital zoom (=1340mm!)

__Florence - Claudio's moschettoni: at long last!

__Pisa - Piazza dei Miracoli - 36mm

__Pisa - Battistero

__Pisa - Battistero - 12C: Jesus betw. Virgin and S.John the Baptist

__Pisa - Battistero - Carla Pattone (now living in Pisa),
               
                                                               Claudio's friend from school times in Argentina

__Pisa - Cathedral and entrance to the Tower - Claudio

__Pisa - Cathedral - a composite of two 36mm photos

__Pisa - Cathedral - the central nave - 36mm

__Pisa - Cathedral - Pulpit by Giovanni Pisano, 1310

__Pisa - Cathedral - Roof over the quire

__Pisa - Cathedral and Tower

__Pisa - Tower: belfry

__Pisa - From the Tower's 3rd floor: Cathedral and Battistero

__Pisa - From the Tower's belfry: Claudio

__Rome - Piazza della Repubblica - Fontana delle Naiadi, 1901

__Rome - Largo Magnanapoli - 36mm

__Rome - Campidoglio

__Rome - Campidoglio: classical view of the Foro Romano

__Rome - Campidoglio - Palazzo Nuovo: Claudio and Marforio

__Rome - Campidoglio - Palazzo dei Conservatori - Official bust of
                                      emperor Hadrian: he obviously was an ancestor of Peter Ustinov ...

__Rome - Campidoglio - Palazzo dei Conservatori - Bronze of boy taking a spine off his foot, against marble sarcophagus with the four seasons - 1st C AD

__Rome - Campidoglio - Palazzo dei Conservatori - Lupa Romana, 5th C BC

__Rome - Piazza Navona - Fontana del Moro

__Rome - Piazza Navona - Fountain of the Four Rivers

__Rome - Piazza Navona - Fountain of the Four Rivers: detail

__Rome - Palazzo Altemps - Loggia Dipinta (Renaissance)

__Rome - Palazzo Altemps - Throne Ludovisi - Greece, 5th C BC

__Rome - Piazza di Spagna - Fontana della Barcaccia

__Rome - Piazza del Popolo - Claudio against the Pincio

__Rome - Piazza del Popolo - Fountain: lion

__Rome - Piazza del Popolo - View of the Pincio with Jumbo jet

__Rome - Dinner at Paola's house: Pia and Claudio

__Rome - Santa Costanza - Ambulacrum - 4th C AD

__Rome - Santa Costanza - mosaic with hunting themes - 4th C AD

__Rome - S.M.degli Angeli cloister, now Museum of Diocleziano's Baths

__Rome - S.M.degli Angeli cloister - belfry

__Rome - Museum of Diocletian's Baths -
                                                 Burial casket of Tiberius Claudios Cryserotis, 1st C AD

__Rome - Palazzo Massimo - Wounded niobid - greek marble, about 440 BC

__Rome - Palazzo Massimo - Frescoes from Villa di Livia

__Rome - Palazzo Massimo - Frescoes from Villa Farnesina

__Rome - Palazzo Massimo - Nymphaeus from Nero's villa at Anzio

__Rome - Palazzo Massimo - mosaics from Villa dei Severi, 3rd C AD

__Rome - Sardinian restaurant - Gnocchetti with seafood

__Bray - La Pavoni, Cellini model, purchased in Rome

__La Pavoni, detail of gauges and buttons

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