Exposed Italy

Rat with Wings?

If it's a rat with wings, it's a pretty one.

Spoleto, Umbria. February 2010. Photographs copyrighted by Amanda Ruggeri. All rights reserved.

 

Beach Babes

Happy water babies. Here's more on how to spend a relaxing weekend in Sardinia.

Fontanamare, Sardinia. June 2010. Photographs copyrighted by Amanda Ruggeri. All rights reserved.

Roman Forum at Dusk

Roman forum, Rome. Fall 2009. All travel photographs copyrighted by Amanda Ruggeri. All rights reserved.

Waiting

Waiting to get into your favorite restaurant: not so bad when it's this sunny outside.

Jewish Ghetto, Rome. February 2011. All travel photographs copyrighted by Amanda Ruggeri. All rights reserved.

The Ancestral Lands

Pescina, the town in Abruzzo where my grandfather was born. It hasn't seemed to have changed much in 75 years.

Pescina, Italy. February 2010. Photographs copyrighted by Amanda Ruggeri. All rights reserved.

Spring, Sprang, Sprung!

Spring's blooming in Umbria.

Umbria, April 2011. Photographs copyrighted by Amanda Ruggeri. All rights reserved.

 

Artemis of Naples

So much cooler than the one at the Vatican.

Naples Archaeological Museum, Naples. October 2010. Photographs copyrighted by Amanda Ruggeri. All rights reserved.

Ponte Vecchio, Florence

A little different with all the jewelry shops closed. Better, I think.

Florence, April 2011. Photos copyrighted by Amanda Ruggeri. All rights reserved.

Umbrian Cows Haven't Changed Much in 550 Years

Tell me the cow at top, just outside of Spoleto, doesn't have the exact. Same. Expression. As the cow in Filippo Lippi's Nativity in Spoleto's Duomo.

Spoleto, March 2011. Photos copyrighted by Amanda Ruggeri. All rights reserved.