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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Glurns/Glorenza

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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2008

Happy New Year !!!

Sunny day today. Snow can be seen only higher up in the mountains.
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2007

2007 is gone now - these were the last glimpses I had of it.
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Bolzano/Bozen - Christkindlmarkt

Bolzano/Bozen - Xmas coming

Bolzano/Bozen - last fall colours

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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Fall colours

Fall colours in Bolzano near the Talfer torrent - but this was some week ago, now all colours are gone.
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Bolzano - rain at last

Seen from my kitchen window: yesterday, late afternoon, last sunrays (above); today, a rainy day (below).

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Monte Altissimo - autumn colours

Autumn colours on the slopes of Monte Altissimo (near San Giacomo)
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Monte Altissimo (2079 m)

Looking down from Monte Altissimo on Garda Lake and the city of Riva del Garda.

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Remnants of trenches of the Great War (1914-1918); in the background on the left Valle di Gresta.

Peace flag on Monte Altissimo.

St. Gallen - Abbey Library

Maps and atlases from 8th to 18th century - exhibition in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen.

Sed ideo aequinoctialis circulus inhabitabilis est quia sol per medium caelum currens nimium his locis facit fervorem. Codex 240, Chelles-sur-Marne monastery, about 800 CE.

Si quis diligit me sermonem meum servabit. Et pater meus diligit eum et ad eum veniemus et mansionem apud eum faciemus. Codex 367, St. Gallen monastery, about 840 CE.

Paradisus est locus in orientis partibus constitutus cuius vocabulum ex greco in latinum vertitur ortus. Porro hebraice Eden dicitur quod in nostra lingua delicie interpretatur quod utrumque iunctum facit ortum deliciarum, est enim omni genere ligni et pomiferarum arborum consitus habens etiam lignum vite. Incunabulum 800, Augsburg 1472 November 19.

Would you like to learn reading old manuscripts? Have an on-line training in Adfontes (registration is free). There are other interesting Adfontes sites, like here and here , or have a look at Wikipedia (St. Gallen, and abbey of St. Gall); see also Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) – Virtual Library.

St. Gallen - Switzerland

Recently I had a nice day in St. Gallen (Switzerland) - but let's begin with the night in a remarkable little hotel: Hotel am Ring
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Ubuntu

Screenshot: this is the desktop of my new Xubuntu-OS
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Bolzano/Bozen - Runkelstein

Castel Runkelstein this morning
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Roma - Foro di Traiano

Traian's Forum
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View from Traian's Forum towards Via dei Fori Imperiali (above) and towards Piazza Venezia (below)

Update 2007/10/16: in the background, on the right, you can see the cupola of St. Peter's, distant 2,5 km

(more on St. Peter's: have a look at Wikipedia and/or see this picture I took on 2005 May 19).