Italy

[ May, 2014 ] In Volterra in Tuscany there is a fine ruin of an ancient Roman theatre. You can see it from the cliff at the edge of the old town. I looked up…

[ May, 2014 ] This was the second time for me to visit Volterra in Tuscany of Italy. This time we saw a lot of flags all over the town. According to the pizza restaurant,…

[ May, 2014 ] The ‘clothes’ on the photo look quite real, but you cannot wear them. Volterra in Tuscaly in Italy has been famous as a source of Alabaster since ancient Etruscan time. Alabaster…

[ May, 2014 ] I remember learning about Etruscans in the history class at school long long time ago. Apparently they were the people who lived in Italy before the ancient Roman Empire. Their main…

[ May 2014 ] On a very sunny Saturday, we went to Como Lake from Milan with a young family.It is an most convenient resort from Milan, which takes just over one hour by car.The…

[ May, 2014 ] I walked in the China Town in Milan in Italy for the first time.They call it China Town, but there were not brilliant gates like in London.Just many Chinese shops were…

[ Feb.2014 ] We went to Muggia from Trieste by ferry.Muggia is even closer to the border.Fortunatelly, we had a very good weather and the view with fishing boats, fishermen, fishing nets and so on…

[ Feb.2014 ] The weather was fine on the third day of our stay in Trieste in Italy.We decided to go to Muggia, a fishing village which is even closer to the border.We arrived at…

[ Feb.2014 ] In Trieste, there was a Nazi concentration camp.This was the only one in Italy with the crematory.It is called Risiera di San Sabba and it was originally a rice threshing factory.Naturally it…