Advantages: Absolutely beautiful, great scenery, good watersports activities, great restarurant - a great day out Disadvantages: Since this is such a beautiful place, there are no disadvantages whatsoever - just go and see it
...Tempo fa scattai alcune foto della mia famiglia a Trieste con sullo sfondo il castello di Miramare.
Chissà quanti lettori di CIAO COM avranno fatto altrettanto; foto ricordo del genere vengono scattate in continuazione in molti luoghi così anche in questo splendido parco, meta di migliaia di turisti ogni anno.
Io, personalmente, però, mancavo di qualcosa: portavo a casa le immagini impresse sulla pellicola, ma senza conoscere alcun cenno storico di questo bel luogo vicino Trieste.
In seguito ho scoperto che il castello di Miramare fu costruito su progetto di Carl Junke tra il 1855 e il 1860 su comissione dell'arciduca di Austria Massimiliano d'Asburgo che, nel 1850 a 18 anni voleva farsi "una casa" con giardino nei pressi di Schonbrun, ma poi, cambiando idea, acquistò il promontorio nei pressi della baia di Grignano (TS).
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Advantages: Art can only have advantages Disadvantages: Don't see any
...Most of you will probably know Leonardo Da Vinci, the painter, the artist, the architect, the engineer, the mathematician, the scientist, the inventor, the genius.
Born in Tuscany (Italy) in 1452, this over-talented excepionally creative-minded man, spent his whole life experiencing new techinques and filling up notebooks with sketches and drawings on architecture, engineering works, anatomy, botanical discoveries, physics. His works and his theories were really exceptional for those years. Sigmund Freud once told about him: "Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep".
Anyway, I’m not writing an op about him but I want to talk to you about one of his most famous paintings named “Il Cenacolo” (The Last Supper). It can be seen in Milan, directly where Leonardo painted...
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Max Factor Crème Puff is described by the makers as an all in one makeup. It can be also be worn over foundation. It is a matte powder that gives slightly heavier coverage than a loose or many pressed powders would. I first read about it a few years ago... more
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Il Postino (1994)
Director: Michael Radford
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Not to be confused with the wholly inferior Kevin Costner vehicle with the same name (Il Postino means "The Postman" -... more