North Italy trip pt 4

More pictures from my North field trip in Verona --

The real balcony from Romeo & Juliet 

people write their names on the wall here -- so naturally, i did too

Verona Arena

students sketching

Verona Theater

Brad and Paul having fun...

I heard they built this city on Rock and Roll

Verona Theater

Paul on the river

beautiful church

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North Italy trip pt 3

After visiting Vicenza we finally arrived in Verona --Verona was a great smaller city in Rome, suuuper clean and the people there were very friendly. They had sites all over the place to visit---

First visit was to the Castelveccia museum, renovated by Carlo Scarpa, amazing modern architecture inside this thing! (probably my most favorite site of this North trip)

fountain?

courtyard art

Me and the ladies

Sweeeet stair

Another sweeeeet stair (looking up)

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North Italy trip pt 2

After Maser we visited Vicenza, Verona and Venice --


Got to see the famous Villa Rotunda while we stopped quickly in Vicenza -- though we couldn't get past the gate...

Visited the Teatro Olympico, and old Roman theater

Standing in the courtyard---

Inside the theater

Playing with perspective---SWEET

After the theater visit we walked around the city a bit, went to Palladio's Basillica in the center of the city

Action shot, why not

afterwards we drifted over to a nearby park to hang out for a bit before getting back on the bus towards Verona

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Return from North Italy Field trip

I just came back to Rome from a school field trip to Northern Italy. What a fantastic country! Everything I see here is amazing. we went to Maser,Verona, Vincenza, and Venice!


Visited the Villa Barbora in Maser, as well as Carlo Scarpa's contemporary cemetery design there too --- neat stuff!

Villa Barbora--

Carlo Scarpa Cemetery

This place was very interesting -- the design was sort of split into two pieces. one contained graves and markings, sort of how we would normally view the deceased. Another for a place for 'reflection' as I understood it; places where one could wander through interesting shapes and textures, sense spatial changes and material changes, light quality, and hopefully find a peaceful space to reflect back on the life of a deceased loved one. I took most of my photos of the latter--

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