It's funny that, being Italian, the things many of you find fancy seem just odd to me. :) I think they just couldn't break the old brick walls. As we say here, "di necessità virt&ugrav...

I'd say end of the 60s.

Oooh, la galleria Vittorio Emanuele. :)

I hate it, sorry... who's the actress?? ;)

It's amazing that you liked and photographed a train... the trains here are old as the hills, dirty and stinky. :-P

Is that a *hotel*? :-O

How lovely! So tiny and surrounded by trees.

And feNNel seeds... "Fernel" must be a crossbred fern-fennel ;-)

Oops, I meant "soppressata WITH fernel seeds" ;-)

Go see some nice places in the countryside if you can! 25-30 km from Florence: Reggello - a pretty village (a very good friend of mine lives there ;)), Vallombrosa, with its renowned abbey a...

Where was the 2nd photo taken? I live in Italy but I've never seen such colours... orange, reddish, cream... but lilac and lemon yellow??

You must understand that such a solution is used in small villages (as you can see), in old houses whose thick walls keep the inside quite cool (I know because my house is like this and during summ...