PHOTO-PRESS: ANDREA BATTAGLINI
TRAVEL WRITER AND PHOTOGRAPHER
EUROPE
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AUSTRIA |
WIEN BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
ALPBACH (TIROL) INN VALLEY (TIROL) SCHUBERT'S ITINERARY (Wien, Steyr, Badgastein, Traunsee...) STRAUSS WIEN WIEN FREUD LECH (WINTERTIME) SALZBURG KALS (OSTTIROL, WINTERTIME),BABYSKI PARADISE HUNDERTWASSER ITINERARY |
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BELGIUM |
ANTWERPEN BRUXELLES ANNEVOIE HISTORIC GARDEN |
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BULGARIA |
MONASTERIES (Bachkovo, Rozhen, Dryanovo, Rila, Preobrazhensky...) WODDEN VILLAGES (Zeravna, Bansko, Trjavna, Sozopol, Koprivstika, Melnik...) SOFIA, VARNA |
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CZECH REPUBLIC |
PRAGUE from Mozart to Kundera |
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DANMARK |
LEGOLAND/BILLUND BORNHOLM, DESIGN ISLAND KRO, OLD POST-STATIONS NOW RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS CASTLES AND GARDENS/SJAELLAND |
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ESTONIA |
TALLINN, MEDIOEVAL TOWN |
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FINLAND |
KARELIA IN WINTERTIME HELSINKI DESIGN HELSINKI IN WINTERTIME |
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FRANCE |
PARISVAGUE (Tolbiac and over...contemporary arts) PARISMAIGRET NOUVEAU NANCY AND THE BEST FRENCH SQUARE PORQUEROLLES ISLAND (Provence) THE CATHEDRALS OF THE STARS(Constellation of the Vergin: Gothic churches of Bayeux, Reims, Laon, Amiens, Chartres, Evreux, Etampes, Troyes) VILLAGES DU LIVRES: FONTENOY-LA-JOUTE (with Redu in Belgium and Hay-on-Wye in UK) CEZANNE AND AIX EN PROVENCE (Gardanne and the Sainte Victoire Mountain) CAMARGUE IN WINTER:MAGIC DREAM JULES VERNE IN FRANCE (Nantes and Amiens, houses of Verne, museums,places, libraries, collection Piero Gondolo della Riva (the biggest in the world sold to the Amiens Library) BUSSY-RABUTIN:LIBERTINE CASTLE (Bourgogne) BALZAC TOURAINE (LOIRE) BREST, ILE OUESSANT AND FINISTERRE LA DROME (PROVENCE) MARSEILLE VICHY E LAPALISSE CASTLE (AUVERGNE) THE WRITERS ROAD IN NORMANDY (Hugo, Corneille, Delavigne,Flaubert,Maupassant... houses) FRANCHE-COMTE (Besancon - city of brother Lumiére-, Doubs valley, itinerary following the steps of Sthendal "The red and the black" NORMANDY, WHERE THE HORSE IS KING (Haras du Pin, the Versailles of the horses) CARCASSONE AND THE CATARS CASTLES ANNECY AND THE LAKE BLUE MATISSE AND THE COTE D'AZUR PROVENCE: ST.PAUL DE VENCE, VENCE, TOURRETTE SUR LOUP, GOURDON |
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GEORGIA |
SHATILI FORTRESS VILLAGE (Unesco looking for protection): Chechnya border in Caucasus Mountains MONASTERIES of Gelati, Ananauri, David Goreja |
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GERMANY |
J.S.BACH in Turingen and Saxen-Anhalt: Koethen, Leipzig, Weimar, Arnstadt, Eisenach, Erfurt... TEGERNSEE and Dorint Hotel with beauty-wellness top class center BONN, old Capital and new cultural city: contemporary art Museums (Mueum Mile), University, architecure (XIX-XX centuries)... SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN: Sylt Island + Castle itinerary
HAMBURG : the new "HafenCity". New architectures, new design-hotels, new restaurants... NEUE FRANKFURT 2017: ART FINANCE ARCHITECTURE STUTTGART and the NeueStaatGalerie by John Sterling BERLIN AND POTSDAM KOLN and the Museum Ludwig DUESSELDORF and the Konigsallee (Germany's fashion street) EISENHUETTENSTADT (ex GDR): from Stalinstadt to Schrottgorod (1950/53-1989/2007) RADEBEUL (DRESDEN) : the biggest Museum on GDR Period OST FRIESLAND: itinerary following the magic of pirate's street (Stoertebecker strasse) WESTFALIA MUENSTERLAND WATERCASTLES, Muenster BAVARIA:BAROCK ITINERARY, King Ludwig's castles, churches and medioeval and Ritterfestival in Kaltenberg BREMEN
CHRISTMASMARKETS in Bavaria (Augsburg, Regensburg), Luebeck, Hamburg, Heidelberg and Baden-Wurtenberg |
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GREECE |
DODECANESO: Rodi, Karpatos, Halki, Simi CORFU |
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GREENLAND |
DISKO BAY Jakobshavn |
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HOLLAND |
AMSTERDAM/LEIDEN REMBRANDT : 1606-2006. Leiden and Amsterdam following the steps of the painter. VERMEER ITINERARY: DEN HAAG AND DELFT |
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HUNGARY |
BUDAPEST: Art Nouveau Budapest, Lechner and the architecture Szcessiò Style. TOKAJ REGION - EGER town and the red wine Egri Bikaver, Veszprem |
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ICELAND |
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IRELAND |
CONNEMARA CONG THE QUIET MAN COUNTY (John Wayne 1907-2007)
ULSTER AND EIRE THE PEACE CHANNEL by house-boat WEST COAST DONEGAL AND DONEGAL TWEED GIANT'S CAUSEWAY HISTORIC GARDENS |
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LATVIA |
RIGA: capital of Jugenstil and the "Russian Honk Kong" NOUVEAU RIGA: Ossip Ejzenstejn (father of the famous filmaker) and his Jugendstil houses protected by Unesco. |
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LITHUANIA |
VILNIUS Capital of Eastern Barock Style. The Drama Capital (theatre directors Nekrosius, Tuminas, Kourschanova, Mamontovas, Drama Theatre...). |
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LUXEMBOURG |
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NORWAY |
OLSO
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POLAND |
KRAKOW WAJDA "KATYN" LOCATIONS WARSAW OR PRAGA? THE NEW COOL AREA OF THE POLISH CAPITAL - CHOPINIANA: THE CITY OF CHOPIN |
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PORTUGAL |
ALENTEJO AND SARAMAGO AZORES ISLAND FAIAL (aZORES) AND TABUCCHI'S "PORTO PIM" |
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ROMANIA |
DRACUL IN ROMANIA Brasov, Sighisoara... MONASTERIES IN BUCOVINA AND WOODDEN CHURCHES IN MARAMURES PELES CASTLE |
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RUSSIA |
SAINT PETERSBURG WINTER AND SUMMERTIME (author of a photobook by Mazzotta ed., Milan, 2002) 2017 |
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SERBIA |
Monasteries and romanesque churches in Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia
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SPAIN |
VALENCIA and the new architectures as Ciudad des Arts y Ciencies... MELILLA a piece of Europe in maroc (Art Nouveau style) PUEBLOS BLANCOS DE LA FRONTERA (ANDALUSIA) Arcos, Setenil, Olvera, Zahara, Vejer, Jerez, Ronda ect, , Sevilla, Costa de la Luz, Almeria, Cordova, Ubeda, Baeza JAEN SEVILLA GUADIX GRANADA CORDOVA SANTA CRUZ DE LA PALMA (CANARIAS) FORMENTERA , the light side of the moon TOLEDO AVILA SEGOVIA LA MANCHA CERVANTES/ALMODOVAR itinerary following the steps of Cervantes/Quixote and the films of P.Almodovar EXTREMADURA the Land of the Conquistadores, itinerary and historic Paradores. Food and Wine. LAS HURDES AND BUNUEL (Sierra de Francia): following the locations of Bunuel movie "Tierra sin Pan" CIUDAD RODRIGO |
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SWITZERLAND |
NEW GENEVE, 2017: QUARTIER DES BAINS, SMALL SOHO OF SWITZERLAND (Contemporary Art Galleries and Museums...)
SANKT MORITZ AND THE ENGADIN IN WINTERTIME and the famous Badrutt's Palace Hotel (winter season)
SASS FEE IN SUSPENCE WINTERTIME CRANS MONTANA WINTERTIME SKI AND MUSIC
LUZERN CARNIVAL SANKT GALLEN AND THE ROCOCO LIBRARY JURA AND FRANC-MONTAGNARD HORSES SWISS BANKS RIEDERALP winter station without cars VERBIER IN WINTER DAVOS KLOSTERS AND THOMAS MANN the Enchanted Mountain-Thomas Mann (1955-2005) and Ludwig Kirchner LOCARNO ANOTHER FESTIVAL because of culture |
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SWEDEN |
STOCKHOLM IN WINTER WEST COAST: THE INGRID BERGMAN' OYSTER BANKS GOTEBORG |
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TURKEY |
ISTANBUL FROM CHRISTIE TO PAMUK |
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UKRAINE |
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UNITED KINGDOM |
EDIMBURGH BRISTOL' PROPELLER, BRISTOL ON NAILS GLASGOW SCOTLAND WEST COAST HISTORIC GARDENS NEWCASTLE architectures, art and culture, bars nightlife COTSWOLDS AND MALVERNS "The English Tuscany": the most elegant hillside of England: country charming Hotels and Manor Houses WESSEX Dorset and Wiltshire): Thomas Hardy's County BATH Georgian town, new SPA Center and Jane Austen locations WALES following the steps of King Arthur WALES HAY-ON-WYE BOOKTOWN EAST ANGLIA following the steps of Constable. Fens and broads. Cambridge and Newmarket horseraces YORKSHIRE GARDENS AND MANOR HOUSES (historic and new as Scampston Walled Garden YORKSHIRE DALES, MOORS and the Henry Moore itinerary YORK AND THE MINSTER SOMERSET the Magic Land. Wells Cathedral LAKE DISTRICT "where born the pencils" (Derwent factory, Keswick...). Poets Region: following the poems of Wordsworth, Coleridge... BRISTOL LONDON Chelsea and Kensington: following the steps of OSCAR WILDE . London: museums, shopping, time out ect. HAMPSTEAD , a millionaire hill. EAST END: from art-galleries to bars and cafè. London's Millennium Architectures |