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mercoledì 6 gennaio 2016

Meteora, Rousanou Monastery

Meteora - The Rousanou (or Roussanou) Monastery

This is one of the most incredible places I have ever visited. I was traveling from Milan to Athens with my motorbike, and I stopped in Kalambaka where the mighty rock pinnacles were clearly visible. Then I started exploring the site looking for the bast places for taking photos. This picture was take from the highest part of the Meteora Road, and frame the Rousanou Monastery with a giant rock column in the background. The view from this place is something very difficult to take with the camera, and the emotions was very strong. Unforgettable.

Pompeii Road

14.4781 - Pompei

This is one of the main road to the ancient city of Pompeii near Naples, in Italy. The stones are very eroded due to the time and centuries of wagon's passages. It always a strange sensation walk on the same stones of the ancient Romans, 2000 years ago. Here the life has suddenly stopped when, in the year 79 AD the city was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.