Where is your home? Do you know?

Where is home?

When you have moved around for a long time you don't really know where your home is....
or maybe you have doubts! What do you think?

Maybe at certain point of your life you have to go back where you belong.....

Melbourne: una citta' per tutti!

Along the city center of Melbourne by Simona 

Interested in reading something in Italian. Have a look to my article on Nati con la valigia:
Melbourne: una citta' per tutti

Buona lettura!! Fino al mio prossimo viaggio ....

Next week in Melbourne

Melbourne Central by Simona

Next week I will be in Melbourne to present a paper at the ACIS Sixth Biennale Conference (Italian Studies - New Directions), but also to enjoy the city. 

Between the many things going on all the time there, I have found that there will be an interesting exhibition presentation at the Italian Institute of Culture on July 14th by Anna Caione, who will be discussing her current body of work influenced by her Italian heritage and journeys to Italy.  

Fabrics by Anna Caione

Anna Caione teaches Art and Design at tertiary level in Melbourne. She has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally. Her work is represented in corporate, public and private collections in Australia, Italy, Holland and Ireland. Anna Caione is represented by Catherine Asquith gallery, Melbourne http://www.catherineasquithgallery.com

Roma nascosta!!!

Roma nascosta by Pannini

Rome was one of the main destinations during the Grand Tour...so if you go on holiday don't forget to stop in Rome!!!!

A presto!

Auguri Roma: Saints Peter and Paul!!

St. Peter's Basilica by Simona Albanese

The feast of St Peter and Paul, patrons of Rome, is one of the oldest solemntities of the Church introduced into the liturgy long before Christmas. It is celebrated in Rome every year. It seems that it was created to Christianize the pagan festival of Romulus and Remus, the mithological founders of Rome, and underline in this way the Apostoles' central role into the growing-up Church: Peter as first vicar of Christ and Paul, the apostle of the peoples, the Gospel spreader.

On this day the pope nominate new metropolitan archibishops celebrating a long solemn liturgy in St Peter's. 

In the evening this festivity is celebrated with the Girandola at Castel Sant' Angelo. The Girandola is not only a mix of fire-work, but also, as a traveler said in 1579 - it's like if all the stars are falling on the earth - an event that until 1861 has brought to Rome thousands of visitors. 

This Girandola started in 1481 to celebrate Sixtus IV papacy and then it was extended to all papal solemnities. It seems that among the 'masters' designing and projecting the fire works there was also Michelangelo.

La palla di Pomodoro

Palla di Arnaldo Pomodoro in Pesaro

Have you ever been to Pesaro? Pesaro is an interesting town, with a population of around 90,000; the second-largest town, after Ancona in Le Marche region, on the eastern side of central Italy. The town is at the northern end of the region, near the riviera romagnola, where are the most famous city of Rimini and Riccione. 


Like most Italian seaside resorts, the original settlement, dating to the Roman era, is a short distance inland, and so the centro storico is separated from the Mediterranean. But if you go in Pesaro and you give someone an appointment, the best place to meet is "La Palla di Pomodo". Everyone knows this place!!     The bronze sculpture at the end of the main street on the edge of the Adriatic Sea has become a common fixed point for anybody permanently or temporarily passing through the city.

The dramatic "Grande Sfera" or Big Sphere– in a polyester incarnation – first made its appearance at the Montreal Expo in 1967, but in 1971 the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro donated it to Pesaro, where he previously worked in the mid-1950s. When you look at the orange glowing globe in the evening, when it reflects the last rays from the setting sun, you have the impression to see a new world order, where the planet are molded in metal.

A similar example of Pesaro is in Rome.

"Sfera con Sfera" by Arnaldo Pomodoro at the Vatican Museum

The "Sfera con Sfera" is the centerpiece of the Courtyard of the Pinecone at the Vatican Museums.  This bronze sculpture is called Sphere Within Sphere and it measures four meters in diameter.  It was created by artist Arnaldo Pomodoro in 1990 for the Vatican Museums.  Pomodoro's specialty is the casting of gigantic columns and/or globes.  In this magnificent sculpture, the fractured surface of the outer sphere reveals a very complex inner sphere that represents the harsh difficulties that the modern world finds itself in at the end of the second millennium.  

A wonderful achievement for this artist!


Other works from this artist are even in Brisbane, donated for the 1982 International Expo! 

The Grand Tour was a big move? It's time to move again!

Maybe is crazy....maybe is time to move on....been here for less than six months after the flood, back to a normal tranquil life and it's time to move again!!! We have time to organize ourselves, nevertheless is so inconvenient especially for the kids, who deserve some stability!!!

How could the noble elite travel in the past? 

They journey was a life time experience while for us we are so use to move from one country to another, we have no roots....we are vagabondi.

Will I stop somewhere one day?