A quick look from the internal cloister
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Photo credit: Cheryl Howard One of the most amazing things about living in Italy is one’s infinite learning journey of the country’s food culture and cuisine. My most recent trip to Umbria opened up another door of culinary creativity that blew my taste buds into galactic paradise. The foundation of any Italian recipe is the same but it’s the ingredients and how they are magically combined together that provides you, without fail, with that element of astonishing surprise. Read More
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One of the most amazing things about living in Italy is one’s infinite learning journey of the country’s food culture and cuisine. My most recent trip to Umbria opened up another door of culinary creativity that blew my taste buds into galactic paradise. The foundation of any Italian recipe is the same but it’s the ingredients and how they are magically combined together that provides you, without fail, with that element of astonishing surprise.
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The map of our #rose #garden. Waiting for the spring-blooming
Luca Signorelli
Luca Signorelli was an Italian Renaissance painter who was noted in particular for his ability as a draughtsman and his use of foreshortening.
He was born Luca d’Egidio di Ventura in Cortona, Tuscany (some sources call him Luca da Cortona). The precise date of his birth is uncertain: birth dates of 1441–1445 are proposed. He died in 1523 in Cortona, where he is buried. He was perhaps eighty-two years old. He is considered to be part of the Tuscan school, although he also worked extensively in Umbria and Rome.
His first experience was as apprentice with Piero della Francesca in Arezzo. Many places in Italy have been gifted by the works of art of Luca Signorelli: Loreto, Siena, Cortona, Arezzo. The most important contribute were for the Cappella Sistina, in Rome, where he executed the Testament and Death of Moses, in collaboration with Bartolomeo della Gatta (1478 -1484) and the astonishing frescoes inside the Orvieto Cathedral, that represent the events surrounding the Apocalypse and the Last Judgment (1499–1503). The frescoes in Orvieto are considered his masterpiece. Stylistically, the daring and terrible inventions, with their powerful treatment of the nude and arduous foreshortenings, were striking in its day. Michelangelo is claimed to have borrowed, in his own fresco at the Sistine Chapel wall, some of Signorelli’s figures or combinations. The decoration of the lower walls, unprecedented in the history of art, are richly decorated with a great deal of subsidiary work connected with Dante, specifically the first eleven books of his Purgatorio, and with the poets and legends of antiquity.
Giorgio Vasari, one of the most important art historian, described him as kindly and a family man, and said that he always lived more like a nobleman than a painter.
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Fontana Maggiore in Perugia (Taken with Instagram at fontana maggiore)
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Being Castello di Monterone
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This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.
C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia
Fairy well
Neve!!
S. Valentino was citizen and first bishop of Terni in Umbria from 197 A. D. at the age of 21, he became famous for the holiness of his life, for his love and his humility, the zealous apostolate and for the miracles he did.
He was invited to Rome by Craton, greek and latin speaker, to healing the sick child, once healed the young man, he converted him and his family to Christianity.
Invited by the Emperor Claudius II the Goth to suspend the religious celebration and to abjure his faith, he refused to do so, and even tryed to convert the emperor to Christianity.
Persecuted by the Roman Senate and imprisoned under the Emperor Aurelian was beheaded and lapidated in Rome on February the 14th 273 A.D. because he celebrated the marriage of a young Christian and a pagan legionary.
His body was taken to Terni and buried near the present church.
Il gioco della bottiglia..ovvero la piscina gelata! Brrr!!
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