NEW YORK CITY HEATH:
◼︎ Welcome in the Cloister of Paradise. This lovely Renaissance courtyard is 40 meters long and 30 meters wide, at the center there is an octagonal water cistern with two Corinthian columns that support the decorated trabeation, in the back end there is a covered porch where you can walk along the balcony and enjoy the amazing view of the Liri's valley and the Polish cemetery, on the sides there are the statues of San Benedetto and sister Santa Scolastica, and on the top of the staircase there is an anti-porch made of oriental granite columns and several niches made of marble bardiglio. An interesting place designed by Donato Bramante in 1595.
Monte Cassino - May 2017
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◼︎ Welcome in the Cloister of Paradise. This lovely Renaissance courtyard is 40 meters long and 30 meters wide, at the center there is an octagonal water cistern with two Corinthian columns that support the decorated trabeation, in the back end there is a covered porch where you can walk along the balcony and enjoy the amazing view of the Liri's valley and the Polish cemetery, on the sides there are the statues of San Benedetto and sister Santa Scolastica, and on the top of the staircase there is an anti-porch made of oriental granite columns and several niches made of marble bardiglio. An interesting place designed by Donato Bramante in 1595.
Monte Cassino - May 2017
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◼︎ Welcome in the Cloister of Paradise. This lovely Renaissance courtyard is 40 meters long and 30 meters wide, at the center there is an octagonal water cistern with two Corinthian columns that support the decorated trabeation, in the back end there is a covered porch where you can walk along the balcony and enjoy the amazing view of the Liri's valley and the Polish cemetery, on the sides there are the statues of San Benedetto and sister Santa Scolastica, and on the top of the staircase there is an anti-porch made of oriental granite columns and several niches made of marble bardiglio. An interesting place designed by Donato Bramante in 1595.
Monte Cassino - May 2017
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◼︎ Enjoying some marble porn while learning about the reconstruction of this room after the bombings of World War II: The Sicilian Diaspro was extracted from the sea bottom of Trapani, the Spanish Broccatello and the agate were provided by the institute of hard stones of Firenze in exchange of some of that lovely red Diaspro, a small part of the amethyst used for the central altar was supplied by the Brazilian Benedictine community, while the rest of it was extracted back from the rubble.
Comune di Cori - December 2014
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◼︎ Sitting on the floor of this amazing place while learning the history behind it made me realize how important the materials are, especially when you use actual pieces of our planet that can be found only in specific locations. Stone cutting and polishing here I come!
Monte Cassino - May 2017
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◼︎ Cassino is a comune in the province of Frosinone, at the southern side of the region of Lazio. It hosts around 36.000 souls, it has a total area of 83km², and is best known for the battle of Monte Cassino during World War II, a battle that ended up in the near total destruction of the city and it's art.
Comune di Cori - December 2014
NIGHT TIME TRAIN RIDE
◼︎ This is the abbey seen from the Polish military cemetery of Montecassino. Sadly during World War II this place looked drastically different, especially on the morning of February 15th 1944, when several hundreds of American bombers destroyed the entire place in order to fight the German army. Ultimately, the bombardment was completely useless for the war and had caused nothing but destruction, indignation, regret and the death of many innocent people.
Comune di Cori - December 2014
ENGINEERING MARVELS
◼︎ This is the entrance of the Polish memorial cemetery at Monte Cassino: "For our freedom and yours - We soldier of Poland- Gave of soul to God - Our life to the soil of Italy - Our hearts to Poland"
Comune di Cori - December 2014
GLOOMY DAY OVER GOTHAM
◼︎ The military cemetery is entrusted to the custody of the monks of Montecassino and it hosts the remains of 1,052 soldiers of the 11th Polish Army, including the General Władysław Anders, who died in London in 1970 but requested to be buried here amongst his fallen soldiers.
Comune di Cori - December 2014
CHANGING TIMES:
◼︎ In January 1946 the ministry of public works decided to rebuild the abbey according to the plans desired by the abbot Ildefonso Rea. The reconstruction and restorations works began on April first 1949, directed by the engineer Giuseppe Breccia Fratadocchi, with the use of founds from the ordinary state budget and using as much as possible of the marble material recovered from the rubble. Precious for a faithful reconstruction was the use of several drawings made by the monk Angelo Pantoni, who worked here as an engineer in the '30s.
Comune di Cori - December 2014
A BRIDGE BLUEPRINT:
◼︎ Exploring every inch of this gorgeous place while my mind is picturing itself back in history... trying to blend with the architecture, replacing the tourists with some locals, feeling the smell of incense entering my nostrils, watching the American B-17 flying over my head. Why virtual reality and history are not walking down the road hand in hand yet?
Comune di Cori - December 2014
CIRCLES AND POINTS:
◼︎ Time to go explore! Find someone that you like, grab their hand, and go get lost somewhere. Doesn't matter where you live, everywhere there is something interesting. Everywhere.
Comune di Cori - December 2014
CAN YOU SEE HERE ?
◼︎ Need inspiration? Just go out for a long walk and bring a notebook with you. More higher you get, easier everything looks. More far away you go, softer everything feels.
Comune di Cori - December 2014
NEW YORK CITY HEATH:
◼︎ I'm always amazed by the human brain but often I don't understand how we came up with some nonsense bullshit, like the rules and regulations about growing stuff. We have a stunning world with all kinds of weather conditions, a mind blowing variety of plants & trees, space for all of us, tons of people without a job, but somehow most of our food come from some shitty industrial factory, your kids have no idea of what they're eating, and you will be tossed in jail if you take care of the "wrong" plants. How dumb is that? Let's get our shit back together folks.
Monte Cassino - May 2017
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◼︎ The abbey is open to the public from Monday to Sunday throughout the entire year. In the summer time the gate opens at 8:45am and it closes at 19:00pm, but in the winter time everything shuts down around 16:45pm. Interested in the holy Mass? Then you need to show up at 9:00, 10:30 or 12:00am.
Monte Cassino - May 2017