See also: Google Maps Camera Car
External links: Google Street View (Wikipedia)
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Showing posts with label map. Show all posts
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Google Maps Car
See also: Google Maps Camera Car
External links: Google Street View (Wikipedia)
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Ligorni
External links: Portolan chart - Biblioteca Nacional de España - Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus (Wikipedia)
- Cartas portulanas en la Biblioteca Nacional de España (Biblioteca Nacional de España)
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Cemeteries, Churches, and Beer
From a free tourist map distributed throughout Livorno:
Our friend Matteo should be quite worried looking at this map: the Old English Cemetery has become a “Cimitero Valdese” (Waldensian Cemetery). The former Anglican church of Saint George is here a Waldensian church (it is Catholic), while the actual Waldensian temple is marked simply as a church.
It gets even better in “Via della Madonna” where they got all the churches wrong. From left to right we should have the former Armenian church of “San Gregorio Illuminatore” and the Madonna church. The recently restored church of the “Santissima Annunziata” is in the right position, but with a wrong name.
In the bottom right corner “Via Pieroni”, named after the renowned architect Alessandro Pieroni, is spelled like an Italian brand of beer.
Our friend Matteo should be quite worried looking at this map: the Old English Cemetery has become a “Cimitero Valdese” (Waldensian Cemetery). The former Anglican church of Saint George is here a Waldensian church (it is Catholic), while the actual Waldensian temple is marked simply as a church.It gets even better in “Via della Madonna” where they got all the churches wrong. From left to right we should have the former Armenian church of “San Gregorio Illuminatore” and the Madonna church. The recently restored church of the “Santissima Annunziata” is in the right position, but with a wrong name.In the bottom right corner “Via Pieroni”, named after the renowned architect Alessandro Pieroni, is spelled like an Italian brand of beer.
Monday, December 19, 2011
The Two Towers
Around the half of the 19th century this tower was part of a wall between the Lazaretto (quarantine station) of San Rocco and the “Nuova Porta a Mare” (New Gate to the Sea). Now it stands alone, just outside the former Orlando Shipyard, awaiting an inclusion of sort in the new residential area already in construction where once the workshops were.
In this detail of a view of Livorno from L'Italie à vol d'Oiseau (A bird's eye view of Italy) by Alfred Guesdon (circa 1850) you can easily spot the rounded shape of the tower between the two bridges, in the lower right part of the lithography.
In the lower left part of the same image you can find this square tower when it was still facing the sea. The structure is now firmly inland, just outside the Benetti Yachts shipyard.
A detail of the same area from a map of Livorno published in Rome around 1860.Saturday, March 21, 2009
Window with a Heart
Probably it is not a heart but, please, let me have some poetic licence...The “Peg Man” of Google Maps has just arrived in Livorno: drag him on a street of your choice and voilà!
External links: Google Street View (Wikipedia)
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Island Prison
A patrol boat of the Italian Penitentiary Police exiting the harbor, probably directed to the penal colony of Gorgona, an island in the Tuscan Archipelago about 37 km west of Livorno.
Gorgona is still an administrative division of the municipality of Livorno, but access to the island for not residents is allowed only with the permission of the Italian Justice Department.External links: Gorgona - Tuscan Archipelago (Wikipedia)
Search labels: Gorgona
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