martedì 28 febbraio 2012

The Roman bridge

Once upon a time...

After the little Montedoglio dam collapse, more than one year ago,...




...the Tiber river has dug up the suggestive ruins of a Roman bridge.
It was part of Ariminensis, the Roman road between Arezzo - in Tuscany - and Rimini, in Romagna, on the Adriatic Sea.













The bridge and the river get back together again... It seems like a beautiful love story!














domenica 12 febbraio 2012

White Umbria

Normally it's green, but now...

The "Green hearth of Italy" is how we call Umbria, a region in Central Italy, but in the last days it has changed its colour.
This is a view of High Tiber Valley in these days, with the big Montedoglio Dam.


Here we are on Alpe di Catenaia (m 1414), on the border between Umbria and Tuscany.






Here we are, with snow shoes, on the other side of the Valley, between Umbria and Marche.




And here, toward Bocca Trabaria, a common experience in our woods: two fallow deers