The 258 meter “CMA CGM Opal” leaving our port on New Year's Eve. She sails under Liberian flag and was built in 2009 at Hanjin Construction in Subic Bay, Philippines.
The length of the tug “Piero Neri”, escorting the “Opal”, is the same of the cargo ship's beam (width): 31 meters.
In November 2009 some low-cost lamp posts appeared in “Piazza della Vittoria”. It was said that this was a temporary substitution, while the original posts were undergoing some kind of restoration.
More than a year later, we can see what “temporary” may mean...
This boat looks like a refurbished “gozzetta” and has an unusual name, “Saracino” (Saracen), for the city of the Four Moors.
Anglers in a boat seen from under the “Ponte Nuovo” (New Bridge) on the “Fosso Reale”.
This is not a Supermax by the sea, but the new “Diacinto Cestoni” Municipal Aquarium. Our first sea aquarium opened in the 1930s, but it was soon destroyed by the war. Rebuilt in the 1960s, it was brought to an inglorious end in the 1990s by the sudden death of all the fishes.
After almost ten years of works, an opening ceremony took place last July, in an obviously unfinished structure with several empty tanks. Some more fishes and a few sharks have arrived since then.
This still unfinished and already rusty wonder is now open to the general public only during weekends. The price of the ticket has dropped from 15 to 12 Euro, but almost everybody can easily get the reduced rate of 10 Euro.
Sometimes Trillian carries her camera on our walks and use it: this is a view of the “Fanale dei Pisani” from the “Terrazza Mascagni”.
Some clouds reflected in a pool of the deserted “Bagni Pancaldi”, one of our oldest and most popular seaside resorts.
The last news of 2010:
From a past Theme Day, one of my favorite images of the last year: the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi by the sculptor Augusto Rivalta.
I may like this photo because it somewhat reminds me of one of my favorite paintings, the “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” by Caspar David Friedrich.
