‘Toccata and Fugue’ in a church
[ June, 2013 ] In San Francesco chuch in Piacenza in Italy, I had a wonderful experience.After looking around in the church, I was called by one local man in Japanese,”Are you Japanese?”.He is Father…
Emilia Romagna
A picture of Raffaello
[ June 2013 ] In the Farnese Palace in Piacenza in taly, they were holding an exhibition on Raffaello’s ‘”Sistine Madonna”.This painting is famous for two angels with vacant expression painted below Madonna.It is now…
The rise and fall
[June, 2013] On one Sunday when we felt summer for the first time this year, I went to Piacenza in Emilia Romagna from Milan.When I got off the car, this huge Fernese Palace was in…
Torrechiara castle
The castle of Torrechiara in Emilia Romagna, Italy has the magnificent exterior. When I was watching a music programme on TV, a video of a band was used this castle as a location, and it…
Reggio Emilia
[November, 2011] We wanted to stay in Parma in Italy this time, but all the hotels were full because of a lot of fairs held in this season. So we visited Reggio Emilia for the…
Enjoy shopping at an outlet
[November, 2011] I always knew that there is an outlet in Fidenza near Parma in Italy, but this was the first time I went there.The atmosphere of outlets are more or less the same all over…
Galleries in Bologna
[November, 2010] In Bologna, there are a lot of galleries where you can walk without getting wet on the rainy days, or without getting scorched on the hot sunny days.Sometimes the ceilings are as beautiful…
Rainy Ferrara
[November, 2010] Ferrara is another city with a lot of history and a lot of buildings to visit, but when I went just for an afternoon, it was raining heavily and I could not visit…
Wedding in a small old church
[June, 2010] I was invited to a wedding in Italy.I had imagined a very showy ceremony, but it was very refined and elegant.The small stone church was apparently founded in 1100.People’s clothing was not so…
