Napoli—City of Passion and Miracles

Naples (Napoli for us) is a city like no other. There is passion, good food, and miracles. I am not a particularly religious person, I leave beliefs aside and visit churches for their works of art. Recently I went to Naples, incidentally it was also the Saturday before the first Sunday of May. On this […]

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Pisa, at Last

Finally the time for travel is back. I had Pisa on my list for quite sometime and I was glad we could finally travel although with mask on entering all public places. Starting August we (the vaccinated population), shall have a QR code on our devices, or, for the traditional type, printed on paper, called […]

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Basilica, Cathedral, or Duomo?

Basilica  A Basilica is, literally, the king’s House or the House of the Lord. The names comes from the Greek ”Basileus”, which means king, and from “Oikos”, which means home. Therefore, each church can be considered a basilica, but the Church attributes only to some of them such definition: mainly because of their importance and/or […]

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