Italy 🇮🇹 lovers’ circle

[image] If I could be anywhere right now… Piazza Navona, Rome. (Photo by 📸: ABS — April 30, 2025, 5:00 PM Main camera — 24 mm f/1.78, 24 MP)

[image] Borromini. San Giovanni in Laterano, Archbasilica of Rome, Italy Photo by 📸:Abs — April 2025

[image] Beauty was once a path to the divine. Architecture was meant to lift the soul, not just to shelter the body. The knowledge remains. — But eternity is no longer the goal. (Sant’Ignazio di Loyola, Rome. Photo by 📸: Abs — May 2026.)

[video] Sacred spaces. Padua, Italy:

[video] One of the most remarkable and well-preserved Roman amphitheaters in the world, located in Piazza Bra, Verona, Italy 🇮🇹 Built in 30 AD — It is the third-largest surviving Roman amphitheater in Europe, after the Colosseum in Rome and the amphitheater in Capua. 📍 The Verona

[image] The “Giovanni da San Giovanni” room in the Pitti Palace, Florence, named after the artist who designed it around 1635. The Medici didn’t just collect art, they lived in it.

[image] If you love frescoes, make Santa Maria Novella in Florence a must-see. These, from 1485-90, are by Ghirlandaio (perhaps aided by his apprentice, a young Michelangelo.)

[image] When the Light breaks through glass, the altar speaks without words. Centuries in one frame. The Gold never fades. — The Duomo waits. (Duomo di Milano. 📸:Abs)

[image] This church could easily be in Siena or Florence. Same striped marble, same grandeur. Same quality of craftsmanship… — Yet it stands in a small town of only 10,000 people. Volterra proves great art is not only in big cities. Photo by 📸:Abs

[video] One of Rome’s most exquisite art museums. 📍 Borghese Gallery 🇮🇹