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A Short Trip for the B.I.T. of Milan

PIpiero64 ·23 photographs ·1 Feb 2011 – 1 Feb 2011 ·1 days
Where
Pisa - Parma - Milan - Pistoia · Toscana,Emilia-Romagna- Lombardia
When
1 Feb 2011 – 1 Feb 2011
1 days · trip of 2011
Who
Piero Cogoni · @piero64 · Cagliari
How
Travel diary
The story

For years I had wanted to visit the B.I.T. and it really seemed the moment had come, so I organised a short motoring tour so as to take the opportunity to stop in Pisa, Parma and Pistoia. So with the flight to Pisa of the wonderful airline and having picked up the car, I reached the Piazza dei Miracoli to revisit, after a very long time, the famous Leaning Tower and the monuments that surround it. Since the queue to go up was out of the question, I contented myself with seeing it from below, a short tour of the square and then off to reach Parma, where they were waiting for me for dinner.....................

The journey's photographs

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Colorful buildings reflect in the Arno river along Pisa's waterfrontPorta a Mare gate in Pisa: crenellated brick walls, marble arch, people passing beneathBaptistery and Cathedral at Piazza dei Miracoli with the Leaning Tower on the lawnMarble facade of Pisa Cathedral, tourists on the path under blue skyThe Leaning Tower of Pisa in white marble, tourists below, blue skyTourists walk in front of Pisa Cathedral, white marble under a blue skyMarble putti statues holding OPA crest, pigeon perched, Pisa cathedralPisa Cathedral and Leaning Tower in white marble under blue skyPedestrian street with Italian and EU flags toward the old gateBronze partisan statue on stone base, lawn and buildings aroundBronze statue of muscular reclining giant with shield against blue skyBronze statue on marble base in a grassy square among buildingsBaptistery of Pistoia, white and green marble, people on the squareMilan Cathedral lit up at night, people strolling across the squareFoggy farmland with tall trees in the distanceRustic wooden shelter with tiled roof among trees and stone wallsDeli shop with hanging hams and baskets of local goods at entranceThe Baptistery of San Giovanni and the cathedral bell tower in PistoiaBare tree amid foggy farmland fieldsPalazzo Farnese in Piacenza, brick facade lit by late afternoon sunRiver flowing past colorful buildings on the bank under blue skyBlue directional sign of the Bit trade fair with Italy, World and Tourism Collection sectorsTravelers under the glass and steel lattice roof of Milano Garibaldi station

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