In this album, you see a collection of 52 photos I took around various areas of Italy's capital, Rome, during a week I spent there in the summer of 2017. … [Read more...]

Ostia (often called Lido di Ostia) is a town on the Tyrrhenian coast, near the Italian capital. It does belong to the commune of Rome and it is the city's only seaside district. Maintaining a population of 85.000 inhabitants, it forms Italy's most populated 'frazione' administrative unit. It is known from the antiquity as it functioned as ancient Rome's port, which nowadays is … [Read more...]

The Blackmoon festival is a psychedelic music festival held annually in the region of Marche in Italy. Wandering around Marche while on a cycling trip contemporaneously with it, I thought it not a bad idea to attend. You'll see in this album a few pictures I took at the festival. And you may here read about my general impressions of it. … [Read more...]

This photo album consists of a set of pictures I took during the part of the cycling trip in Italy between the villages of Maestá and Poggio San Marcelo in the region of Marche. That was indeed one of my favorite parts of the trip altogether. Both those picturesque hilltop villages and the mountainous countryside surrounding them I found absolutely startling. You may here read … [Read more...]

The regional park of Frasassi and Gola della Rossa is one of the largest and most beautiful natural protected areas in the Italian region of Marche. It is known for its astounding mountainous sceneries, its serene rivers and lakes, and its numerous caves.While on a cycling trip in Italy we crossed through the park from west to east in two days. The night we spent there was one … [Read more...]

Sassoferatto is town lying in the westernmost reach of the province of Ancona in the Marche region of Italy. It is located in the vicinity of the ruins of Sentinum: an ancient Roman town known for the famous battle named after it, which took place in about 295 BC between the Romans and the combined forces of the Samnites and the Gauls.I happened to pass through this town while … [Read more...]

While cycling through the hinterland of Marche in Italy, one late afternoon we were in the town of Pergola. The plan was to buy food and cycle a little further out of town, find some good spot for camping, and conclude the day. However, we were a bit unlucky. We'd coincided with some sort of public holiday. So we found all shops closed and the town streets desolate as if it was … [Read more...]

It was a savagely hot summer morning we were leaving our last night's shelter by the southern bank of Metauro River to head towards new lands. Quite dauntingly, the first thing we encountered that morning was a steep hill, on top of which lies the village of Sant' Ippolito. It was a damn hell cycling up there without the slightest hint of shade along the way. But after we … [Read more...]

On my recent cycling trip in Italy, the time had come to leave the Adriatic coast and move towards the hinterland of Marche. The transition took place at the town of Fano, wherefrom we took the Via Flaminia and started cycling westwards along the bank of Metauro River. In this album you'll see a few photos I took during that part of the trip, passing through the towns of … [Read more...]

San Marino is an independent micro-state enclave in Italy. In 301 AD, a declared-as-a-saint stonemason named Marinus and his Christian followers climbed up the natural fortress of the then known as Mount Titano contemporary San Marino, seeking refuge from the persecution of emperor Diocletian. Thus they saved their heads and moved on with founding a republic which today … [Read more...]