Sunday, December 19, 2010

December 18, 2010: a special afternoon to honor a special day and an extra special person, cont.

An impromptu skip through the Piazza del Duomo to snap the tree and sparkling interior of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele netted a plus: the reminder of Italy's big "national birthday" next year....More......

Piazza Diaz's Martini Tower (1956 ca.) bubbling for the holidays. I've got a hunch that this was for Mr. Martini of the Martini & Rossi line of Italian liqueurs.



A view down via Paolo da Cannobbio, which follows in the footsteps of the ancient Roman walls (or, should I say, hovers over them, since the original Roman street level is a good three yards down), past the not-very-exciting Xmas lights to the bell tower of San Gottardo in Corte by Pecorari, one of Giotto's pupils.


Not so far away, the Velasca Tower, with the full moon peering over its shoulder.










The white blur of a rushing taxi, and we're almost home.

3 comments:

chris said...

I have never heard of pumpkin on pasta but it sounds so interesting! Might the secret ingredient be a wine? What a beautiful place you live in! It sounds like your special day was magical!

Margaret said...

The Martini tower is so fun! It look like you had fun with all of these.

Star said...

The "bubles" on the Martini tower change every few seconds, rising, shifting, disappearing, to be replaced by others arising from the bottom. Very clever. It's the first year that they've done it, and I hope they do it, again.

Aaaahh, the secret ingredient...it isn't wine, and I could bet a million gazillion trillion dollars that--even tasting it--no one would ever guess what it was, even a tiny fraction of so much money would be welcome, but I'd sure hate to lose a bet like that! I'll give you all only one hint: it's perfectly and happily comestible by occidental standards.

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