Friday, March 28, 2008

St. Magdalena (Bolzano)

St. Magdalena, a hamlet on the east side of Bolzano; below: a look from St. Magdalena toward the Rosengarten.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Easter

Shop window in St. Magdalena (Bolzano)

Resurrection (holy grave empty) in Schabs (near Bressanone)
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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Bolzano - pyramids

Splinters of porphyry on the northern slope of Bolzano


Belfries of St. Magdalena and Kampill, on the east side of Bolzano.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Bolzano - Forsythia




This week we see the first Forsythia flowers in Bolzano - rather early for the season.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Engadin (Switzerland)



Hiking in Lower Engadin: San NiclĂ  (above) and Sur En (below). More info about Engadin: lexicon, water, museums, wikipedia.
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Rodeneck

Church and castle (below) of Rodeneck, near Bressanone/Brixen. Remarkable are the medieval frescoes in the castle concerning Ivanhoe. See more details here and here.
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Castel Coira/Churburg

Castel Coira, above the village of Schluderns/Sluderno (more ; see also this picture ). It's very near to Glurns/Glorenza.
Image below: the hydroelectric plant of Seledison, only a few 100 m from the castle.
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Glorenza/Glurns

Glorenza/Glurns, a tiny medieval town, about 900 m asl in Val Venosta (for further details see here and here).
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

2008

Happy New Year !!!

Sunny day today. Snow can be seen only higher up in the mountains.
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Monday, December 31, 2007

2007

2007 is gone now - these were the last glimpses I had of it.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Bolzano - Sunday afternoon

Last sunrays on two castles on the northern border of Bolzano city: castel Klebelsberg (above) and castel Rendelstein (below), distant mere 150 m from each other.
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