Turin – Piedmont, Italy Turin (Torino) lies at the western end of the Po Valley near the point where the Po River begins its long journey across northern Italy. The city is framed by the distant peaks of the Alps, giving Turin a dramatic geographic setting. For centuries Turin served as the capital of the […]
Turin Duomo (Cathedral of St. John the Baptist) – Turin, Italy The Turin Duomo, officially the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, stands in the historic center of Turin near the former royal palace of the Savoy dynasty. Built in the late 15th century, the cathedral is the only major Renaissance church in the city. […]
La Venaria Reale – Venaria, Italy La Venaria Reale stands just northwest of Turin at the edge of the Po Valley, where the plains of northern Italy meet the foothills of the Alps. Built in the 17th century for the House of Savoy, the palace served as a royal hunting residence and one of the […]
See Article from Smithsonian describing the new exhibit. Highlights: The new hall, The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time, was created from a $35 million gift from David H. Koch. The new hall brings back the nation’s T. rex, now the centerpiece of a new 31,000-square-foot fossil hall. The exhibition is a journey through […]
Olana State Historic Site in Greenport, New York, was the estate home of Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. Olana’s villa overlooks parkland and a working farm designed by the artist, with a wide view of the Hudson River Valley, the Catskill Mountains, and […]
Each year it is a tradition for me to go down to the Title Basin and take pictures of the cherry blossoms. This year I decided that I didn’t want to push and shove to get a few pictures! So it meant that I had to see the blossoms before they were fully in bloom. […]