Maurizio

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The scientific name is "Polyommatus coridon". The adult male has blue wings, the female golden. Finding them together on the same flower is a stroke of luck. Always having the iPhone in your hands makes it possible to have the photo ...

As every year, during the summer the Verona Arena hosts the Opera Festival. And around the Roman amphitheater the sets of the various works on the bill are stacked. Creating funny situations from time to time ...

In Venice the "sotoportego" is a kind of gallery which, passing under a building, connects a street (in Veniza it is called "calle") with another street or with a square (in Venice "campo"). Often the sotoporteghi are anonymous passages, sometimes they are small masterpieces. Like this one of the "Corte Nova" which, in the Castello district, connects "Corte Nova" with calle Zorzi.

Two sculptures by the artist Bruno Catalano in Venice, along the Riva degli Schiavoni. Its "suspended statues" placed in a strategic position give new framing to the splendid island of San Giorgio.

Verona, piazza delle Erbe in the evening. The warm lights, the statue of the poet Berto Barbarani (author the sculptor Novello Finotti), a storm coming.

The Palazzo del Capitanio (also known as Palazzo del Tribunale or Palazzo di Cansignorio), is a palace in Verona. Now finally at least partially restored, it opens its doors to the marvelous frescoed rooms.

There are magical places, a stone's throw from the historic center of Verona. Lucky places, bathed by small rivers that flow in an almost untouched nature. Places that invite you to leave your car and even your bicycle at home, crossing them calmly, step by step.

In Venice, outside the crowded tourist routes, the best thing is to get lost. Only in this way can you find its wonderful hidden corners, like a "campiello" that ends in a courtyard that ends on a canal overlooked by another courtyard ...

In front of a kindergarten in splendid Venice. Scooters are starting to be seen even in its centuries-old streets. The small, beautiful, push-action ones, driven by children. Who diligently park them in front of the school.

Spring. Nature awakens and wonderful flowers bloom out of nowhere. I don't know the name of the one in the picture, I love flowers but I don't have a "green thumb". Found along a road where the city turns back to the countryside.

When I am out and about walking around the city or its borders, I always have my iPhone in my hands. Because you don't know the right time to find something or someone to photograph, better be ready. And so it can happen to immortalize a splendid red cat that, for a moment, comes out of a garden, looks at you, goes back to where it came from.

Cities are full of them. These are the boxes that contain the various control units of the various telephone companies. As ugly as they are indispensable. Some street artists came up with the idea of painting them. And here is that horrible anonymous gray metal boxes become works of art. Here in Verona, Italy.

"The blue angel of welcome" is the bronze statue of the artist Albano Poli. In front of the Cathedral of Verona reminds passers-by of the word "welcome". Never before as indispensable in our daily vocabulary.

It will certainly not be the demonstrations of protest against Putin and solidarity with the Ukrainian people that will change things. We need real help, concrete and not just moral solidarity. However, even a photo taken during a demonstration in Verona can help us not to forget. Free Ukraine!!!

The Roman Theater of Verona, once the season of shows that it hosts in the summer months has ended, returns to being a set of walls, columns, arches that tell its ancient history. On a foggy evening, everything takes on magical contours.

The Raterian iconography or Civitas Veronensis Depicta is the oldest known representation of the city of Verona. It dates back to the 10th century and there remains a copy made by Scipione Maffei in the 18th century and kept in the Capitular Library. A group of street artists faithfully reproduced it on a house in an alley just outside Porta Vescovo.

Even on a gray winter day, the beautiful Verona can give splendid images. Photo taken from the top of Castel San Pietro, towards the ancient Ponte Pietra and the Duomo.

As autumn progresses, nature plays strange and wonderful tricks. So it can happen that an evergreen tree, taken by storm from the American vine, gives unusual combinations of colors.

The path along the ancient walls of Verona, an oasis of peace and nature a few hundred meters from the city center. A postcard sky is the backdrop to the autumn foliage.

Palazzo Cini in Venice is a small splendid museum born in 1984 and continuously enriched with works of art, with new periodicals and refined installations. To go from one floor to another of this house-museum a helical staircase, in itself a masterpiece.