It's time for another Italy Photohunt! Here are the guidelines: You select one of your own photos to post that in some way utilizes the topic. Use the topic as a concrete prompt, or find a novel approach. Each person, please just one post/photo per thread topic, (or two if you really must) so there's room for all participants. Photos should be resized to be no wider than 400 pixels. Posting large photos slows down people's ability to view the thread, and increases work for your Mods. Read about how to post a photo in a thread, here.
This week's prompt is "Hidden"
You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.
The village of Pescara del Tronto, Le Marche where my husband's grandmother and grandfather were born. We were visiting with relatives from the branch of the family that didn't emigrate to America. The garden belongs to the matriarch of that family.
Hidden passageway between Via dei Chiavari and Campo di Fiori in Rome. My guess is that almost everyone who has stayed in the Rome-is-home apartment has a picture similar to this.
Posts: 695 | Location: Toronto | Registered: 18 February 2006
The opening in this narrow passage on Isola Bella is about 18 inches wide. Hidden on the other side of it is a medieval staircase that goes... I don't know where...
Just off the highway below Deruta is a fascinating little church. Look for the tiny sign for Santuario Madonna dei Bagni at Deruta Sud, and circle back on the small road next to the highway. The simple interior is covered by over 650 majolica ex-votos dating from 1657 to the present. These are folk art religious pieces giving visual accounts of maladies and prayers. Falls, illness, pregnancy, animal attacks, mental illness, car crashes, tragedies natural and manmade. Moving, fascinating, and well worth a stop. Many of the earliest were stolen a few years back, and were reproduced from photographs. The church has very sporadic hours, but if you are very lucky and persistant you may find them open in the occasional morning.
We were eating dinner at Clinica Gastronomica Arnaldo in Rubiera (near Modena) on 31 October 2007. These children attended by their parents were out trick or treating.
A common thread of all our photos, and a wonderful aspect of these Photohunts, is the revelation of individual searches for unique vantage points - visual discoveries to share with others, so they remain "hidden " no more.
Detail on The Capitoline:
Posts: 272 | Location: Santa Barbara, CA | Registered: 19 November 2002
We don't know how many times the Blue Grotto in Capri has been discovered, but although everyone has heard about it now, it's often hidden again by sea and storms. And whoever goes inside is hidden from the outer world while they are there!
Look what was hidden in my pumpkin amaretto soup at Naranziara, a lovely osteria which prepares the most delicious food in Venice! Karen and Vincenzo showed me this lush location and I'd go back there in a heartbeat.
"For centuries Venice was the gateway to the Orient, a point of exchange between East and West. Rialto was the centre of this magnificent city, a meeting point of aromas, flavours, people and cultures. This is where there was naranzaria, the ancient warehouse where citrus fruits were stored." ~ Narazaria history Brenda
Tucked behind the church in Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, one finds the Leather School. Here is a craftsman preparing gold leaf to be applied to a finished product, November 2007.
Posts: 25 | Location: Ottawa,Canada | Registered: 11 December 2006
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