That tower should be a dead giveaway, but I don't think I've ever seen it. Only been to Florence, Venice, Rome, Pisa, Milano, and another town on the west coast - the name for which I can't remember now.
I like this town, but won't tell you more yet.
Southern Italy or Sicily?
Could be Arezzo where my business partner has just been promoting our school - looks like her photos!
Clary, I think you made a good guess. Even if Arezzo is not the place, I did a Google and found this interesting link.
http://www.greatestcities.com/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Arezzo_ancient_Arretium_city_and_Province_regional_capital.html
Clary has it - Arezzo it is!
I went googling and found exactly the same picture!
Another place for my Italy mental list (my trip has been postponed a year, so plenty more time to build up my list.....)
Which city? Which building?
Arezzo - ahhhh! It has, first of all, the True Cross series by Piero della Francesca in one church (San Francesco, I think), a great Cimabue cross at the altar of San Domenico, a nice little art museum, a wonderful archeological museum with etruscan and roman items, a renaissance church (named Annunziata, I think) that is a stones' throw from an alimentaria where a friendly older woman will slice you some nice pork off of a Huge roast. Ours was just out of the oven. The pork was served on a good crusty roll, with fabulous cooked artichokes... aahhhhhh. We bought those and then ate them sitting in front of the church, probably bad form but we could walk no further with those steaming packets..
That piazza has the loggia you might have noticed, by Giorgio Vasari, quite a fellow indeed, an architect who wrote Lives of the Artists, a key book in art history. Benvenuto Cellini described him as very weird in his autobiography. I have wonderful pictures of that loggia, which I'll put in my personal photos on a2k should I ever get my act together to do that.
The middle shop in the loggia is a cafe with the most wonderful iced coffee, to die for. They were expensive. I had two.
The piazza is the scene of the the yearly festival, the Joust of the Saracens. Also the scene for the monthly antiques fair, one of the biggest in Italy - 800 antique stalls.
The church in that photo is Santa Maria del Pieve; has very interesting architecture inside, and that tower is, I think, the town's symbol. Named something like 'tower of 1000 windows'.
The colors of Arezzo - cream, and beige, and light gray, and gold, and gold orange.... some tan, some more cream, really lovely.
Arezzo is not very far from either Florence or Siena, as the crow flies. We went by bus...
University of Istanbul - entrance?
Yes, Istanbul, c i do you know the name of the University??
You know it says "Istanbul Universitesi" above the arch...
I learned to read pretty early in my life.
I'm gonna go look for a photo, so please give me a few minutes.
I'm going on a few errands, look forward to your photo...
We have beautiful places in the US too!
