
Luna

Mole Antonelliana was planned as the highest Synagogue in the world by the Jewish community of Torino, but when the political circumstances changed and Torino lost its importance as capital to Florence in 1864, there was not enough money available any more to finish that extravagant showcase of architectural art. So the city of Torino…
The photographers luck: A Robert Capa retrospective in the Royal Palace in Torino and a meeting that ended just in time to free a small time slice for a exhibition visit. Some weeks ago I had read the book of the two protagonists’ 1947 journey to Russia, so I enjoyed some of the images even…
Train Station, Munich The airbrushed steam engine on the electric locomotive is pure fake, but seems to serve the widespread longing for the “good old times” (which clearly weren’t that good at all), and the dirndls on the dirndls (in Bavarian, dirndl is both a certain frock and the idiom for ‘girl’), well, those seem…
Could well be the motto of my working day…
This is the visitor centre for Berchtesgaden National Park, our humble German counterpart of Yellowstone đ According to Alexander von Humboldt (in his biased opinion, as he was German) one of the most beautiful places of the earth. Not the visitor center of course (price-worthy as it might be, you choose the category), but the…