It's time for another Italy Photohunt!

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This week's prompt is "texture."

You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.

Iron water main cover in a cobbled street -- Florence or maybe Rome (though it doesn't say "SPQR"), Spring 1994.

Venetian textures:

A "soft-top" fuzzy wedding dress in a shop window in Perugia.

Orvieto, May 2006:

In the garden of the Villa Cipressi, on Lake Como in the spring of 2007.

Door knocker in Montepulciano

Ticket machine along the autostrada (Sicily).

In Cortona, this wall on the side of the Museo seemed like a patchwork of textures.

Roman forum, April 2009

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Door and wall in Civita di Bagnoregio, Oct., 2008. BJinNM

After a wedding in the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome...the contrast is so diverse between the softness of the silk confetti and the rough texture of the ancient stairs designed by Michelangelo. These innovative stairs ascend the Capitoline Hill to the Piazza at the top.

Michelangelo designed this piazza and the stairs leading to the hilltop between 1536 – 1546. However, the project wasn't completed until sometime in the 17th century, many years after his death. The paving design in the piazza was not completed for another 3 centuries.

"In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action.
I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all." ~ Michelangelo
Brenda

Beautiful textures and colors on the bolts of fabrics at the Busatti factory and shop in Anghiari.

Wall next to the Appian way near the St Callistus catacombs

Contrada di Talosa members in Montepulciano with their beautiful flags and costumes.

wall in Monteriggione.

Sorry to say I can't remember the place, but it was a reproduction Medieval house in Florence. Everything on the walls is painted. I like the patterns throughout the room, the painted wall textures, the heavy wooden furnishings, the stone floor.
June 2007

No matter where you look in Ostia Antica you can see textures. It was hard to just pick one. I thought this wall was very interesting.

Where will you find a street paved with marble? Carrara!

Erosion Furrows or calanchi.
Picture taken outside Atri TE.

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Sorry to say I can't remember the place, but it was a reproduction Medieval house in Florence. Everything on the walls is painted. I like the patterns throughout the room, the painted wall textures, the heavy wooden furnishings, the stone floor.

Palazzo Davarzati. near Piazza Repubblica. I went there in Feb this year. Beautiful place.

This is the olive three in fornt of Sant'Antimo abbey

Facade of house in Spello, Umbria

I love this pistacchio semifreddo at a restaurant near Linguaglossa, a small town in the Mount Etna foothills in Sicily. Dripping chocolate sauce, a dusting of cocoa. Deliziosoooo....!

Burano

One of the many beautifully painted walls in Dozza, Italy.

Shrine in Venice

The walls - such texture.

In this country, we might have cleaned them, repaired and replastered them nicely, and painted them a tidy solid color. I remember that when my elderly father visited Europe, he found this shabby, and couldn't understand why they didn't fix things up. He just didn't get it.

But I love the whole Wabi-Sabi of it all.
Linda

Polenta e osei, a specialty of Bergamo. The little yellow cake mimics a mound of savory polenta, but it’s actually covered with crunchy sugar crystals and hides a butter-cream center, all topped with a tiny chocolate bird.

Passeggiata on Via Del Corso, Rome, 6/16/07

Hi everybody,

here are a few textures from our guest apartment in Sutri. Guess who's feet are those?

Have a lovely Slow Summer!

This is the "chief tester" at the parmigiano reggiano plant last week checking the texture of the cheese to see if it is ready for the next step in the process, straining it before it is formed into it's final shape.

Shadow of Time Pompeii

And here are a few textures from just outside the door of Massimo's/ Biancamaria's/ Delfina's guest apartment in Sutri!

Some 'lovely legs' just hanging about at the Wednesday morning market in Ragusa, Sicily. Taken in May 2009.

Venice, where else?

On the coastal trail in Cinque Terre near Manarola. The phrase that resonates for me as I walk here is "as above, so below". Like the dropped pebble that generates concentric rings in a pond, this landscape echoes similar themes at many interconnected levels - small farm plots are squeezed into tortured mountain terraces, in the same way that plant life survives and thrives on a twisted sea cliff face.

A pashmina stall in Venice. I snapped a few photos while waiting for my friend (fellow STer Maria) to purchase one for herself. I shared her rental apartment with her for a few days while we were both in Venice last October, what fun!

Window to window, Colosseum, Rome, Italy

The texture of mosaics in Orvieto.

Our front door in Casperia: