Probably due to the strong industrial and working soul of Milan, the city is sometimes described as cold and grey; but is it true? Living in this town, I can tell you there are many roads full of trees, many nice parks such as Sempione Park or the Public Park named after Indro Montanelli. Apart […]
Since centuries in Rome there is the Colossal Krater.
We know that Rome is an open air museum. Everywhere you glance, you see something ancient, full of history and mystery. In a working day in the eternal city, I found this Colossal Krater placed where the ancient Diocletian Thermal baths were. With the shape of a krater, this giant vase dates back at least […]
Twenty photos published this month!
A military outpost on the peaks of the Alps in the area of Monte Cristallino in Veneto Region. Barbed wire guarding an enemy that doesn’t exist anymore. This is one of the twenty photos published this month in the Dossier of the magazine Storia Militare (Military History) and dedicated at the Mountain Troops during the […]
Manzoni and his ‘Shit of Artist’.
“You are so ugly that you can be a modern art masterpiece”, in this way Sgt. Hartman insulted his soldier in the Kubrick cinematographic masterpiece ‘Full Metal Jacket’. What to say about it thinking at the Shit of Artist made by Manzoni? What do you think? I love Art and I always take the chance […]
Meditation and modern society, wellness and relaxing into the SPAs.
The recent photographic mission had been tough. It was full of satisfaction as I reached all my photographic goals but it was too tensed. Life of many of us is on the same line, always running, always kilometres, always heading toward a result or an objective. On one hand, life imposes us this life style […]
Milan, a jump into the history of the city.
Milan is an alive city that during this period is developing and growing fast thanks to its will or modernity. A city that has changed a lot during the last ten years. The photographic exhibition “Milano, storia di una rinascita” brings us back into the history of the city. It offers us a wide range […]
Is this winter?
Liguria is a region studded with ancient villages, more or less popular, by the shore or on the cliffs. Climate is various. You can find sunny and warm winter days by the sea as ice and fog covering the inland between canyons and forgotten pits. This winter is not that usual, perhaps the unusual got […]
Have nice XMas holidays and a happy New Year!
Here we are, Christmas and the New Year are arriving. The website of Franconiphotos is ready to turn three years on line. A year full of challenges and important photographic mission is ending. The photographic exhibition “here they fought! 1914-1918” is traveling not only around Italy but also around Europe. During the first months of […]
Milan and the panettone legend.
Walking around Milan downtown during Xmas time it will happen to you to see many confectioners’ shops showing their best panettone but which is its origin? There are two legends, the most reliable is the one of the Pan de Toni, “bread of Toni”. It is necessary to date back to fifteen century when Milan […]
London by night under the dim lights of Brexit.
It’s the first time that I go back to London after the Brexit referendum. Thinking that in the future it will be probably out of the Union is a painful thought. Walking down the streets this uncertainty situation is all around, the topic is on every newspapers’ front page. In these days the Supreme Court […]