Kulusuk is a tiny village of 250 inhabitants and the main access point to Eastern Greenland, thanks to its tiny airport with a direct view of the ice. Grey skies, low clouds, a fine drizzle that seems to come from every direction: it’s not the most comfortable first sight over tundra! Taiga, steppe, tundra: when …
Roughly diamond-shaped, Angmassalik Island, off the coast of Eastern Greenland, is 40 km long and 30 km wide. It’s a mountainous island of granite polished by ice, with many small valleys modelled by glacial erosion. It is here, among these peaks and fjords, that we find Ikateq, the small settlement known for having a population of just one. Only …
The Abandoned History – Tempelhof Airport in Berlin There’s something profoundly unsettling about walking through Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, where no planes have landed since 2008. The silence is absolute. No announcements, no engine roars, no hurried footsteps of travelers racing to catch their flights. Just emptiness. And history. Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is not …
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A photographic journey through time along Romania’s last working narrow-gauge railway A Photo Journey through Maramureș, Northern Romania My trip on board Mocănița is a consequence of my fascination with discovering the unusual aspects of every nation. In my endless quest to uncover the extraordinary hidden within the ordinary corners of our world, I found …
The word Meteora in Greek means “suspended in the air”. When you wander among these ancient sandstone pillars, you feel as though you might float upward, drawn into the realm where monasteries perch impossibly on stone peaks, defying both gravity and time. The Sacred Heritage Saints, anchorites, and mystics have found refuge in this vertical sanctuary …
Sometimes a place calls to you not through guidebooks or recommendations, but through an inexplicable pull that transcends rational thought. Plitvice is that place for me—a living canvas where water writes poetry in perpetual motion. Plitvice: The Call of Distant Waters Twice I’ve answered Plitvice’s call, separated by decades of life, growth, and evolving vision. …
Oltre il buio della galleria, poco più alta di me e scanalata dai segni delle mannare, la luce è fioca, di una profonda tonalità aranciata. Che colore singolare: è pieno mattino e davanti agli occhi ho la luce del tramonto. Sono all’ interno di una delle centinaia di cave di tufo di Favignana (ne sono …
Out of the crowd in Mykonos for beautiful landscape photos! If you’d like to escape from the glamour and the crowd of Mykonos town and its most famous beaches, head to the northern point of the island, to the Armenistis lighthouse. Armenistis Lighthouse It’s a 6 km walk from Mykonos town. Just less than an …
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If the name Ohrid sounds new to you, then you are probably missing one of the many hidden gems of Europe! Ohrid: the town and the lake Ohrid is the name of a beautiful lake, one of the oldest and deepest lakes in Europe. And Ohrid is the name of the city that lies on …
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A lot of green around, many hills and a church made completely of wood. You could think you’re in Norway, but no! You’re much more south: Maramures is a poor, agricultural region of Northern Romania, stretched between the mountains and the Ukrainian border. Maramures Maramures is an interesting area: it still holds ancient rural habits and …
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When the sun goes down in Zadar, the earth and sky melt together at the horizon. They share the same colours in a fantastic psychedelic show. Alfred Hitchcock, who was a connoisseur, used to say that from Zadar’s waterfront one can enjoy the most beautiful sunset in the world. But since the times of Mr …
È un fantasma ad accoglierci. Una forma evanescente, che sembra appena abbozzata. I raggi del sole che cala la attraversano senza difficoltà. Eppure è solida, solida come il ferro di cui è fatta. E’ un fantasma ma non sembra minaccioso; è lì per custodire la chiesa, che già si intravede. E’ una chiesa della stessa …
Solotvyno is just a West Ukrainian village, on the banks of the river Tisza, right at the border with Romania. Perfect location to investigate the plain Western Ukrainian lifestyle, I thought, and that’s why I visited it. A bridge in the outskirts of the village links the two banks of the Tisza River, thus connecting …
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The country that once was called “Yugoslavia” disappeared from the maps at the end of last century and after a cruel war. Outside the former Yugoslavian area, nothing of it remains on maps, just a trace on the history texts. But the “Made in Yugoslavia” Zastavas still run the roads of the new countries that …
Located in Northeastern Italy, Palmanova, the star-shaped town, is a unique destination. It is a great example of a Renaissance-era planned town meant to be used as a living area, fortress and stronghold. The star-shaped town Palmanova has the shape of a star. Right in its middle, there is a huge square, an enormous empty …
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Marzamemi, a fishermen’s village Marzamemi is a beautiful ancient tuna fishing village in Sicily, not far from Siracusa. It was built during the Arab domination of Sicily. The name itself “Marzamemi” has an Arab root. “Marsa” in Arab means “harbour”. Also, the tuna fishery dates back to Arab domination. On the other side, the fishermen’s …
The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights, you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you’re wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind. (M.L. Stedman) Down, down, down to the extreme tip of Sicily until there is no …
Finally, after hundreds of kilometres of steppe, you’ll reach a barren, uninhabited tuff rock. It might sound like an introduction to hell but it’s just the prologue to the wonders of Cappadocia. A mix of geological and human uniqueness ignites the imagination and sparks delight. A diagrammatic landscape, all peaks and slopes, pockmarked by water, …
Nested among high peaks and green valleys in Northern Romania, near the Ukrainian border, lies the tiny village of Săpânța An ordinary village with an extraordinary cemetery It’s an ordinary village, close to the river, with the main road passing through. Like every ordinary village, also Săpânța has a graveyard. But it’s not an ordinary …
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It isn’t easy to get in touch with the Datooga of Tanzania, a pastoralist Nilotic population. Their huts are made of a framework of branches covered in mud with thatched roofs. And they are well camouflaged with the surrounding savannah. As a result. if you don’t know where they are located, you must follow some tracks to …
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