last day of school.
June 3rd, 2008 by L A W R E N
The core group of Italiano per Stranieri (a lot of our class was missing that day).
top row, left to right: Lawren (USA), Alina (Romania), Blessing (Nigeria), Daniela (our professor, Italy), Steve, (USA), Babak (Iran), Ebenezer aka Ebbi (Ghana)
middle row: Cristina (Brazil), Gema (Ecuador), Miriama (Senegal)
bottom row: Diana (Moldova), Daniela (Romania)
fantasia, trulli for sale!
May 24th, 2008 by L A W R E NI have to admit, the appeal for me is the lack of grass. The restored trulli have lots of concrete patios.
spiaggia statunitense.
May 23rd, 2008 by L A W R E N
before and after.
May 23rd, 2008 by L A W R E N
’spontaneous architecture’ of Martina Franca.
May 22nd, 2008 by L A W R E NPuglia is famous for its “trulli” or cone-shaped houses, but my favorite parts of the landscape are the white cities — densely packed stacks of whitewashed cottages, with ornate baroque ornamentation, carved in sandy stone.
Gravina, the neolithics and the Romans.
May 21st, 2008 by L A W R E N
In the distance, on the far left, you can see the Roman bridge.
Le Murge.
May 21st, 2008 by L A W R E NAfter our tour of Castel del Monte, we drove back to Ostuni through the Alta Murgia National Park. Steve took these photos of the ruined masseria and arcobaleno —farm and rainbow.
Castel del Monte.
May 21st, 2008 by L A W R E N
Dolmen di Montalbano (ca. 2000 B.C.)
May 21st, 2008 by L A W R E N
