Jun. 10 - Torino, Pavia, Milano

Torino - Piazza San Carlo

Torino - Caffè Baratti e Milano, mid 19C, over Piazza Castello

Torino - Caffè Baratti e Milano, over Galleria Subalpina

Torino - Museo Egizio - Statues of pharaohs

Torino - Museo Egizio - Ramesses with Amon and wife Mut

Torino - Museo Egizio - Claudio scared by mummy

Torino - Piazza Vittorio Veneto

Torino - Ponte Vittorio Emanuele I, over the river Po

Torino - Mole Antonelliana

Torino - Mole - Guglia - view towards Piazza Vittorio Veneto

Torino - Palazzo Madama - external fortress

Torino - Palazzo Madama - gothic seat

Torino - Palazzo Madama - room with medieval carvings and paintings

Torino - Palazzo Madama - Les tres belles heures - van Eyck c.1420: Birth of the Baptist and Baptism of Jesus

Torino - Piazza San Carlo - Betty in the Caffè Torino

Sacra di San Michele - external view

Sacra di San Michele - great staircase: capitals with monsters c.1120

Sacra di San Michele - Romanic-Gothic church entrance

Sacra di San Michele - Church - main nave

Sacra di San Michele - view from Torre della Bell'Alda

Torino - Basilica di Superga, 1717

Torino - Basilica di Superga - internal view of the dome

Torino - Basilica di Superga - cloister

Asti - Museo civico - Betty in the Cripta di S.Anastasio, 11C

Asti - Museo civico - Medieval carving, with computer-reconstruction of lost original painting

Asti - Via Alberti - Betty

Asti - Claudio with his new photography monopod, sipping caffè in Piazza Statuto

Asti - Duomo

Asti - Duomo - nave

Asti - Duomo - organ by Serassi 1844, recently restored

Asti - Duomo - great organ by Serassi - console where Claudio played

Asti - Duomo - baptismal font, c.1000, over Roman capital

Pavia - Castello - external

Pavia - Castello - internal

Certosa di Pavia - general view

Certosa di Pavia - facade, 1508

Certosa di Pavia - facade, left upper detail

Certosa di Pavia - facade, left lower detail

Certosa di Pavia - facade, right upper detail

Certosa di Pavia - facade, right lower detail

Certosa di Pavia - facade, right lower perspective

Certosa di Pavia - entrance

Certosa di Pavia - window - Assumption

Certosa di Pavia - transept

Certosa di Pavia - ceiling covered with lapis lazuli

Certosa di Pavia - small cloister

Certosa di Pavia - large cloister

Certosa di Pavia - large cloister with decorations in terracotta

Pavia - Church of San Michele - crucifix in wood and silver, 10C (see Claudio reflected)

Vigevano - Claudio in the Piazza Ducale

Milano - Via Lecco 10, where Angelo (Claudio's father) lived 1910-1939

Milano - Duomo - external view

Milano - Duomo - external decorations

Milano - Duomo - La Madonnina

Milano - Duomo - central nave

Milano - Duomo - organs

Milano - Duomo - medieval windows

Milano - Betty in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, 1877

Milano - Piazza_Cordusio, with the Generali building where Angelo worked in 1929-1939

Milano - Castello Sforzesco - entrance

Milano - Castello Sforzesco - detail

Milano - Castello Sforzesco - courtyard - Betty

Milano - Cast.Sforzesco - Museo di Arte Antica: Betty behind Ciborio, c.1470

Milano - Castello Sforzesco - courtyard

Milano - Santa Maria delle Grazie - Google Earth view, with location of Leonardo's Cenacolo

Milano - Santa Maria delle Grazie - Leonardo's Last Supper, c.1498, recently restored

Milano - Santa Maria delle Grazie - external view of the church's apse

Milano - Marcallo - The printed menu for the marvellous party thrown by harpsichordist Franz Silvestri, celebrating Claudio's 64th birthday

Milano - Marcallo - Claudio (standing, right) with Franz Silvestri (seated, left) and other musicians

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