Anyone who has travelled to the Aeolian Islands from Naples by boat retains a vivid, almost cinematic memory of that journey: the sun sets, seagulls chase the wake, darkness falls and all sense of direction is lost until one is simply ‘on board’. Finally, at dawn, the outside world slowly reappears: the silhouettes of Stromboli and the other Aeolian Islands emerge from the blue. Andrea De Fusco depicts this route [...]
Anyone who has travelled to the Aeolian Islands from Naples by boat retains a vivid, almost cinematic memory of that journey: the sun sets, seagulls chase the wake, darkness falls and all sense of direction is lost until one is simply ‘on board’. Finally, at dawn, the outside world slowly reappears: the silhouettes of Stromboli and the other Aeolian Islands emerge from the blue. Andrea De Fusco depicts this route [...]
For many summers, Samuel Butler set off to walk across the Alpine valleys and foothills between Canton Ticino, Piemonte and the Lombard lakes. His itineraries sought not that Italy of the Grand Tour, but rather those marginal territories made up of villages, paths, churches and sanctuaries, of which he was the first in the world to acknowledge the artistic and cultural value of a popular heritage largely unknown at the [...]
For many summers, Samuel Butler set off to walk across the Alpine valleys and foothills between Canton Ticino, Piemonte and the Lombard lakes. His itineraries sought not that Italy of the Grand Tour, but rather those marginal territories made up of villages, paths, churches and sanctuaries, of which he was the first in the world to acknowledge the artistic and cultural value of a popular heritage largely unknown at the [...]
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