In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. Christian Lacroix, a French fashion designer. ...
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. La...
Credit: Ilya Stepanov A Russian photographer Ilya Stepanov has recently visited Cairo (Egypt) where he ventured into the infamous Garbage City in Cairo. The suburb Mokattam is inhabited by a co...
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. Samuel Johnson, an English author ...
Moscow – Printed Miscellanea Kiosk, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. One of the things you will notice when you visit Moscow are the different kiosks in the street. This is not altoge...
Siena, originally uploaded by Esti Solana. I love walking in the streets like this one in the Italian Siena: only houses, almost typical, not a tree in sight, the sloppy street clearly not rising up t...
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. Alexander Herzen, a Russian writer and politician....
Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life. Anna Akhmatova, a Russian poet....
Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much. Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish writer....
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly lov...