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Post by fumobici on May 11, 2011 20:33:45 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 11, 2011 21:31:28 GMT
Ohhhhhhh, Fumobici ~~ this is so beautiful, it's almost sinful. You can fall into some of those pictures! I love all the shots you got from above. That second tiled-rooftops one is alone worth the price of admission. Thanks for this!
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2011 21:55:04 GMT
Really like all these photos, fumobici. I knew you would take great pictures.
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Post by fumobici on May 11, 2011 22:28:54 GMT
It rained pretty good one day and I wanted to document a little street scene on Corso Vanucci, the main drag. Italians generally break out umbrellas at the slightest sprinkle, my dad says because they are worried about their hair. Kids aren't as concerned apparently.
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Post by mich64 on May 11, 2011 23:19:35 GMT
They are all so beautiful Fumobici that they almost do not look like the photos are real. What a lovely place. I particularly liked the photo of the multi-coloured tiled roofs. Cheers, Mich
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Post by lagatta on May 12, 2011 1:39:05 GMT
Fumobici, bello, I recognise almost all the buildings and landscapes but can't seem to identify the long, narrow orange institutional building (a railway station?) in the photo beneath the photo with a line of cars below a strikingly yellow façade.
Sandri is good, but I no longer eat such sweet pastries. Even for those who don't, it is worth a visit, for the over-a-century-old décor and great gentility.
So where is the best pizza in Perugia? Actually, the pizza you show does not impress - bit too much tomato sauce.
Such a wonderful place.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 12, 2011 2:39:31 GMT
... I wanted to document a little street scene on Corso Vanucci, the main drag. No cars! I just came back to this thread to gaze upon it again. Great stuff!
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Post by bjd on May 12, 2011 7:10:26 GMT
I thought Lagatta would be happy to see this! Your eye-candy remark was perfectly justified -- I too best like the pictures taken from above.
No cars! This, dear reader, is why it's not a good idea to rent a car or try to drive in Italian towns and cities. Have you seen how the cars are parked in the few pictures where they are visible?
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 9:17:51 GMT
Amazing photo's Fumobic.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 12, 2011 12:24:58 GMT
What excellent pictures!
That Kurt Sperry is a fine photographer.... ;D
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Post by fumobici on May 12, 2011 13:40:31 GMT
Fumobici, bello, I recognise almost all the buildings and landscapes but can't seem to identify the long, narrow orange institutional building (a railway station?) in the photo beneath the photo with a line of cars below a strikingly yellow façade. Sandri is good, but I no longer eat such sweet pastries. Even for those who don't, it is worth a visit, for the over-a-century-old décor and great gentility. So where is the best pizza in Perugia? Actually, the pizza you show does not impress - bit too much tomato sauce. Such a wonderful place. You all are too kind. In order: most Italian cities have parking just outside the centro and easy access to the historic centers, in Perugia you can park near the centro and take escalators or the minimetro right into your part of the center which isn't a large area. You should be fine unless you have a lot of heavy bags to shlep to your hotel in which case you can always use a taxi from the lot. The centers are usually ZTLs with very restricted access by car but taxis seem able to go just about anywhere. As for pizza, I'd recommend trying one of the local places that makes the ancient Umbrian version, torta al testo which is more authentic to the region. The Easter torta I bought at Sandri was anything but too sweet, so you needn't get sugar bombed to enjoy their baking. The orange building is the new bus station just below the Pincetto minimetro terminus. I'll be adding new material to the Doors of Perugia thread and doing photo reports from a few other Italian towns and cities plus Zürich as time permits.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2011 17:29:56 GMT
Really excellent report, fumobici, and how lucky you are to have had rain while the rest of us are parched in the northern countries.
I really must admit, though, that it is easy to see why there are problems if the earth shakes. So many old Italian buildings look so fragile, but obviously they are a lot more solid than they appear.
It is also a joy to see (apparently) cheeseless pizza, since the world seems to have been taught that cheese on a pizza is obligatory.
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Post by auntieannie on May 20, 2011 18:04:31 GMT
grazie mille e mille, fumobici!
This thread was a perfect interlude to my studying frenzy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 24, 2011 16:01:15 GMT
Well, not to dump on the "competition", but I have to say this .......... When I saw Fumobici's first photo spread on Perugia, Doors of Perugia, I thought it was beautiful. But when he posted this Perugia Revisited thread, all I could think was that I would die if I didn't get to visit this wonderful place he presented. In today's NYTimes online there is an article that purports to be about the same glorious city Fumobici shows, but portrays it -- to my mind, at least -- as no more than an expensive, touristy stopover. Hail, Fumobici!
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Post by lagatta on Sept 24, 2011 23:51:50 GMT
Perugia is utterly lovely. It isn't especially touristy (I was there last in 2006 so I'm not relying on distant memories of studying there); it is pleasantly cosmopolitan due to a lot of foreign students, many of whom stay on and work there or found small businesses. I've had decent Chinese food in Perugia even outside the microcentre, below the hill. I remember Subsaharan African, Maghrebi, Brazilian and other shops and businesses. And it is not necessarily expensive - it can be, as there are some wonderful old-school elegant hotels, and many more modest places to stay, from a very clean "youth" hostel I've stayed in (as the youngest guest, alongside some slightly-older (boomer) colleagues and a busful of Italian geezers and biddies (or to be more gentle, nonni e nonne, as they were very pleasant) to very nice but more modest hotels. To my mind, doubles from 137€ sounds like a bargain for the Brufani Palace, which looks over the square at the end of Corso Vannuci on one side and an extraordinary view of the Umbrian hills on the other. It is a heavenly place. For 0€, you can sit in the park just down from it and get the same view, but not upon rising unless you manage to sleep rough there, which I think is discouraged. One slight quibble with our masterful fumobici - I don't consider torta al testa a form of pizza - the type of dough and how it is baked are too different, and my native Perugian friends definitely saw those two yummy baked goods two different species. Pizza is not native to Perugia, and probably arrived there from Lazio where it spread from Campania, but I have had memorable pizzas in Perugia. Problem is, the quality of places can change, and they can even shut down or move. And hell, being halfway between Florence and Rome isn't exactly marooned in the middle of nowhere! What a sloppy article! British student Meridith Kircher was murdered. Her flatmate Amanda Knox was among those convicted of the murder -yes, there are a lot of questions to be asked and anwered, but Perugia is definitely NOT an Italian city with a reputation for corruption or sloppy justice. It is terribly sad that this very young woman was murdered in what her family rightly assumed to be a safe and fun place to study, and of course sad if Amanda Knox was unjustly convicted. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Meredith_KercherBut it is ludicrous to remember Perugia only for this - the horrible murder was stunning because it was so atypical, not because Perugia is a hotbed of knife crime.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 25, 2011 2:06:11 GMT
I promised to update the Doors of Perugia thread didn't I? I should but how many Perugian doors can people bear?
Of course torta al testo isn't pizza; a calzone isn't either but they occupy similar space in the cucina italiana in my mind. Perugia is touristy sometimes, but usually not too. Go during the jazz festival or Eurochocolate or during the high season and it can be, but most of the rest of the year it really isn't terribly. Off-season at least most of the tourists are Italians which somehow seems less... less... deauthenticating to me somehow than the swarms of Germans and Japanese and Brits of high season.
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Post by nycgirl on Sept 26, 2011 1:22:20 GMT
Wonderful photos! Perugia looks delightful.
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Post by fumobici on Jun 2, 2016 20:07:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2016 20:14:33 GMT
This is great. It looks much more like a "real place" rather than a "tourist place" (not that I have anything against tourist places since I live in one).
The video is not accessible to me.
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Post by fumobici on Jun 2, 2016 20:24:14 GMT
Thanks, I'll see if I can change the settings to make the video accessible to all.
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Post by fumobici on Jun 2, 2016 20:31:01 GMT
Hmmm. After investigating a bit I can't figure out why it wouldn't play everywhere. See if you can view it in non-embedded form.
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Post by lugg on Jun 2, 2016 21:07:41 GMT
Great additions Fumobici - apologies for not commenting before. I can quite understand why you like this place so much . I don't know about Tlingit/Haida so will have to look that up but I was taken aback by the "Lowryesque" garage. ( I can see the video)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2016 21:12:38 GMT
The video works now. Thanks.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 2, 2016 22:01:34 GMT
Cani cattivi! Thrilled to see more from Anyport's Italian connection. Fumobici, those vistas you captured are breathtaking. They really show how much you love this place, as do all your photos. The wall art is great, and you paired my two favorites: Mao/ducks and the brilliant Il Discorso. Yes, I can imagine that the native northwestern motif made you doubt your surroundings for a moment.
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Post by lagatta on Jun 2, 2016 22:07:04 GMT
Kerouac, you live in a tourist place, but it is a major city, so some districts are heavily touristed, others not so much or very little. I did a long stay in Rome, and the tourists there are really concentrated in the historic centre and a few other places - there are lots of districts with very few. In Florence, a much smaller city, one really feels the crush of tourists, though I was half-tourist myself (I was visting friends there when studying in Perugia and later in Rome, but I did visit museums and historic squares).
Enchanting. I loved the art show, uneven though it was, and the naughty dogs.
As you may well imagine, it gets very slippery there in the rain, not to mention snow and ice. They don't get large quantities of either, but it does snow a bit and there are some freezes.
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