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360 view around the vast St Peters Square in the Vatican City in Rome. For more around Rome, check my profile here or my website at http://lifeinmegapixels.com |
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This stitched view has been composed from a terrace located on the southern bank of the Arno river, between Ponte della Santa Trinità (Holy Trinity Bridge) and Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge).
Ponte Vecchio is one of Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridges. It is one of the most reknown and visited monuments of Florence, and it has a very original superstructure formed by small and quite irregular shop blocks erected from the bridge's deck. It is said that the economic concept of bankruptcy originated here: when a merchant could not pay his debts, the table on which he sold his wares (the "banco") was physically broken ("rotto") by soldiers, and this practice was called "bancorotto". Not having a table anymore, the merchant was not able to sell anything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Vecchio |
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A view over the Roman Forums at the centre of Rome. For more high resolution panoramas, check my profile here, or my website at http://lifeinmegapixels.com for wallpapers, time-lapse photography and even more images. |
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Il Monte Marzo e` una montagna abbastanza massiccia caratterizzata da un intaglio visibile anche dalla pianura che scende fino al colle delle Oche. Le creste che scendono dalla vetta separano rispettivamente la Valle Soana dalla Val Chiusella a sud, la Valle di Champorcher dalla Valle Soana a Nord, la Val Chiusella dalla Valle di Champorcher ad est. L'itinerario più interessante riteniamo sia quello che dal colle delle Oche sale attraverso la cresta sud con passaggi di I e brevi tratti di II grado. Il panorama dalla vetta e` assai vasto poiché spazia dal Gran Paradiso al Cervino, al Monte Rosa, alla pianura, fino al Monviso ed alla Ciamarella. Dalla vetta si può scendere facilmente sia verso il monte Facciabella, sia direttamente sul lago Morto per poi rientrare all'alpe di Santanel. Sulla vetta vi e` posta una croce metallica eretta nel 1933 in occasione dell'anno Santo ed un grosso ometto di pietra. ----- http://www.vallesoana.it ----- |
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"Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web", 2009 The Biennale is an international art festival held in Venice, Italy every second year. Tomas Saraceno's installation can be seen in the main building of the Giardini venue. |
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Taken from the delightful village of Orta on Lake Orta the monastery island and a gigantic "trojan" horse . OK I cheated a little bit: the horse is on a floating tethered platform which, because of the wind and waves, had moved by the time the camera came to it so now the horse is wading!! Artistic license! See reciprocal from the island at http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=29417 |
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Taken in May 2007 at a small shop on the Oltrarno side of the Arno River in Florence (Firenze, Italie), Italy, near the Ponte Vecchio, probably on Borgo San Jacobo, but can't be certain. Taken by Shadowfax11. The detail of the patterns in the ties and the colours and, of course, the novel display are the attraction here. There are plenty of cartoon characters, plaid, paisley, stripes and geometric ties of all sorts. |
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This 4,000 year old red granite obelisk (sometimes referred to as the obelisk of Rameses II) required an unimaginable amount of effort and energy to transplant from its native Egypt to this "Square of the People" (originally "Square of the Poplars" in older translations) in Rome, Italy. The mind boggles! The panorama method enables even the hieroglyphs at the very top of the obelisk to be read clearly. The Piazza is at one end of the Via del Corso, one of the main high-end shopping streets in Rome. We reached it riding a small electric city bus which was part public transport and part rollicking amusement park ride! In the 2009 movie "Angels and Demons", this location and obelisk are seen on the way to the first crime scene in the movie, by the way. |
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Favoloso panorama della città di Sora scattato da monte San Casto.
Altre info su Sora clicca sul link : http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sora Copyright Sandro Di Vona - 2008 E' vietata la riproduzione anche parziale con qualsiasi mezzo. |
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The south-east take-off on Col Rodella taken from the mountain station of the Col Rodella cable car with some paragliders and one delta.
Der südwest Startplatz auf dem Col Rodella von der Bergstation aus. Einige Schirme und ein Drachen sind schon gestartet. |