Italia Mia offers free pictures of Italy. Travel in hot cities like the eternal city Rome, the Italian capital, or sample the artistic wonders of medieval Florence, the birthplace of the renaissaince; the rebellious city of Naples shouldn't be overlooked, and neither should the sun kissed island of Sicily. Pictures of Italian cities Roma, Venezia, Firenze, Amalfi, Positano, Sorrento, mountains like Vesuvius and Etna, Salerno, Pisa, Catania, Siracusa, Taormina, Palermo, Noto, Acireale, Aci trezza, Savoca, and Agrigento. Take a trip online and see the photos of Michaelangelo's David, the Coliseum and the Roman Forum.
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www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Florence_Pages/Florence.html Pictures of: the church of San Miniato al Monte, a plaque containing a verse from Dante, a panorama of the most beautiful city in Italy, the cupola (dome) of the Duomo (Cathedral) of Florence and Palazzo Vecchio, sunset over the Tuscan landscape with the Arno visible.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Florence_Pages/Florence2.html Pictures of: Michaelangelo's 'David', facade of the duomo of Florence, Santa Maria Del Fiore, Brunelleschi's famous cupola (dome), the campanile (bell tower), golden doors belonging to the bapistery, the courtyard of the Galleria Degli Uffizzi, a view towards the Palazzo Vecchio, Macchiavelli brooding over the dark deeds of men.
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www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Florence_Pages/Fiesole.html Pictures of: the Mugnone Valley, il Teatro Romano (Roman Theatre), looking towards the Arno Valley.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Florence_Pages/Pisa.htm Pictures of: the Palazzo Dell'Orologio (Clock House) stands on the Piazza dei Cavalieri, the Palazzo Dei Cavalieri (Palace of the Horsemen), River Arno, the Leaning Tower- Il Torre Pendente, Campo dei Miracoli, the Bapistery, the courtyard of the Camposanto, a cemetery.
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www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Naples_Pages/Naples.html Pictures of: the Porta Capuano is an Aragonese gateway, Via dei Tribunali, the Guglia di San Domenico is a baroque obelisk that stands in Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, an aerial view of Naples's historical centre from the Vomero hill, the giant bulk of Vesuvius, the interior/honey-coloured exterior of the Galleria Umberto I, a view of Piazza del Plebiscito looking up towards Castel Sant'Elmo.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Naples_Pages/Naples2.html Pictures of: the Castel Nuovo a 13th Century Angevin construction, the Castel Dell'Ovo, the sea-front district of Margellina, the elegant Chiaia district, panorama of Naples from the terrace oustide the Museo Nazional di San Martino on the Vomero hill.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Naples_Pages/Pompei.html Pictures of: the amifiteatro in Pompei, dating from 80 BC, the daunting view a gladiator would have had coming in to the arena, Via dell'Abbondanza was one of the main streets in Pompei, the Foro (Forum), the Case dei Vetti a merchant villa.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Naples_Pages/Pompei2.html Pictures of: a mural from the Casa dei Vetti depicting a mythological even, View of the Palestra (gymnasium) from the amphitheatre, vast outline of Vesuvius on the left, a magical template of life in Roman times, and a testament to the human cost of the disaster that befell it.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Naples_Pages/Positano.html Pictures of: Positano is an unspeakably beautiful village, the Costiera Amalfitana, the Spiaggia Grande is the main beach, the cliffs on the Spiaggia del Fornillo, sides of a deep and narrow valley.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Naples_Pages/Positano2.html Pictures of: the view out of the balcony of my hotel room, Monte Pertuso, an eternal light over an eternal landscape.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Naples_Pages/Positano3.htm Pictures of: the slopes of the costiera so steep that only through terrace cultivation can the land be worked, rocks called the 'Sirens' and are mentioned in Homer's poem 'Odyssey', according to myth, these used to be mermaids who sang to sailors, luring them to their deaths.
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www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Sicilia_Pages/Aci_Castello.html Pictures of: small village south of Acireale, local river Aci, famed in Homeric myth, castle, which rises out of the sea, of the thirteenth century, Scogli dei Cicopli, markers of an ancient land, said to have been thrown by the blinded Cyclops (Polyphemus) at the fleeing Ulyses.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Sicilia_Pages/Aci_Trezza.html Pictures of: a view of the coast stretching to Aci Castello, and the infinite possibilities of a summer's day, Scogli dei Cicopli are wierd, jagged points of rock that are steaped in myth and legend.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Sicilia_Pages/Acireale.html Pictures of: home of some fine examples of Sicilian Baroque Architecture, the sea, sky and coast, enveloped by a soft blue haze, merge somewhere in the distance, rebuilding was of a uniform design and on a grand scale.
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www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Sicilia_Pages/Randazzo.htm Pictures of: nearest town to the summit of Mt. Etna (visible in the distance) but has never been engulfed by any of it's eruptions, Randazzo, which is strange mix of honey-coloured limestone and lava buildings, sits in a wild and virgin landscape, living an isolated and precarious existence: a place to glimpse the essence of rural Sicily.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Sicilia_Pages/Siracusa.html Pictures of: these are the sandstone remains of the Tempio di Appollo, the first grand Doric temple in Sicily, the Porta Marina, located on the medieval island of Ortigia, a fifteenth century gate, a view of the Piazza del Duomo in which the 7th century AD Duomo, fluted collumns are the remnants of the Tempio di Atena, the elegant lure of a wonderful Sicilian City.
www.angelfire.com/mh/italianjob/Sicilia_Pages/Siracusa2.html Pictures of: the Parco Archealogico, one of the grandest sights in Siracusa, the vast Ara di Ierone II an alter of the third century BC, quarry (inside the parco) known as La Latomia di Paradiso, the vast Orrecchio di Dionigi (Ear of Dionysius) an eerie cave, the beautiful Teatro Greco; Aeschylus, the great Greek dramtist, staged his plays here.
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