Monti della Laga, in the Gran Sasso National Park. This forest extends on the eastern side of the mountain between the deep valleys of the "Morricana", alternating large tree trunks not so frequent in the rest of Abruzzo within an area of 30km square of forest.

Mount Caperrino. Basilicata's economy is deeply linked to farming and agriculture. Most people living here work the fields every day of every year.

The Roman "Tempio di Diana" in Baia, near Naples. Campania has always been densely populated since ancient times. The beautiful architectural heritage still visible to this day proves that Greeks and Romans certainly thought the place so thrivingly liveable as to meet the demanding standards they expected when building their cities. As a result, these many ancient remains stand alongside the aggressive developments of modern cities. This inadvertently has created a peculiar landscape where antiquity and modernity are forcibly living side by side.

Trieste.

Rome, via Gordiani. The gypsy camp controlled by the Roman municipality.

Savona. The ancient cable railway trasporting coal from the harbour to stockage areas in the valley behind the city, built at the beginning of the last century, is still operating nowadays.

Projects in the Northern suburbs of Milan. Kids in the neighbourhood familiarly call these buildings "the houses" : a generic, un-personal name, reflecting the feeling the area gives at first sight. On summer nights, sometimes young residents set up little "illegal" parties on the roofs: they look at the city from up here, drinking beer and listening to music, and they have the feeling that the city, or at least their neighbourhood, are under control.

A panoramic view of Casalciprano and its surrounding area, near Campobasso.

Coming back from a trip, a young boy from North Africa was sitting beside me on a plane. While landing we flew over the the Vercelli rice paddies at sunset. The boy was astounded while admiring the view, and wondered what happened to the lands there. In fact at certain times of year those paddies are really a unique vision, a thing of incredible beauty.

Into the woods around Nepi lake.

Silius, Cagliari.

The Danilo Dolci Hotel and Culinary School in Balestrate. The structure, originally born in 1958 as a summer colony in memory of famed politician Alcide De Gasperi, is now in ruins and has been a matter of discussion in the last ten years because of repeated structural collapses. Expenditure items in order to improve the safety of the building reach the amount of 571 000 euro in the official accounts of the Province of Palermo.

They say there's a big difference between cities that have or don't have a river running through them . They say water takes away negative energy, and waters being trapped underneath (like in Bologna and Milan, for instance) would be better off if out in the sun. This is Bisenzio, the river of Prato. It is now such a beautiful place for strolls or just sitting and watch the flow. Old people smile at the thought of its transformation: they say it used to change color every day because of materials being colored, when economy was allright and factories worked at full capacity.

San Genesio, Jenesien (common name in Italian and German) is a mountain village and has a population of 2,942 inhabitants, is located 1,087 m above sea level and is 10 km from Bolzano. The municipality of San Genesio extends over 6,685 hectares. These days we see the controversy between the Italian government and the autonomous province of Bolzano on the signage installed by Alpenverein (South Tyrolean Alpine Association). Almost all the new signs placed along the paths by the South Tyrol, which was responsible to carry out a renovation project funded at European level, are in fact only in German.
The found political solution is to replace the monolingual signs with bilingual signs on public land; as for remaining monolingual signs, President of the province Durnwalder said that in a reasonable time they will be replaced: the principle applies to municipalities, villages and signes for "malga" and lakes, but not for fractions, mountains and forests.

A view of the Apennine mountains.

Burano Island, Venice. Every time I go to Venice I am enchanted by the atmosphere, I love going out from the tourist trails and get lost among its "calli" and canals.