Travel & Cultures

Places, cultures and encounters along the way, told one frame at a time.

Japan  ·  France  ·  Switzerland  ·  Italy

Japan

La stazione di Tokyo illuminata di notte, con i grattacieli sullo sfondo
The tunnel of orange torii at Fushimi Inari
Mount Fuji rising above the clouds
A building covered in colourful signs
An octagonal temple on a reed pond
Il Padiglione d’Oro di Kyoto riflesso nello stagno, tra i colori dell’autunno
Tokyo at night from above, a sea of lights
The Phoenix Hall of Byōdō-in reflected in the pond
A small train with Mount Fuji in the background
The colourful front of a fugu restaurant
Le insegne colorate di Dotonbori, a Osaka
Asakusa’s Kaminarimon gate lit up at night
A bamboo forest seen from the ground up
A skyscraper lit up at night, seen from below
The great hall of Tōdai-ji in Nara
Una coppia in kimono nella foresta di bambù
A canal lined with traditional wooden houses
A dark statue in front of ema votive plaques
Tokyo Tower at the end of an avenue of winter lights
A level crossing on a neighbourhood street
La Tokyo Tower illuminata sopra i palazzi della città di notte
A row of orange torii at Fushimi Inari
A red metro train crossing a bridge over a canal
A temple gate with a large pine and a red lantern
The illuminated Tokyo Skytree seen from below
Il volto di una grande statua del Buddha tra il verde
Osaka’s Tsūtenkaku tower
The red roofs of a temple against the sky
The main gate of Fushimi Inari shrine
A temple approach at night, past closed stalls
Il castello di Osaka illuminato di notte
Small monk statues in the moss of a garden
A temple pavilion framed by pine branches
A station platform among buildings and signs
A fox statue with a red bib at Fushimi Inari
Un cervo tra gli alberi davanti a un tempio
The tiers of a pagoda lit up at night
Asakusa di notte vista dall’alto, con la pagoda e il tempio illuminati
Un piccolo treno passa accanto a un passaggio a livello

France

Un canale tra le case di un borgo, con il cielo nuvoloso riflesso nell’acqua
Strasbourg Cathedral
A lavender field in Provence
Un libro appoggiato su una panchina azzurra in una via di paese
Half-timbered houses on an Alsatian square
The Pont Saint-Bénézet in Avignon
Un castello medievale in pietra rossa su una collina
A half-timbered house with a loggia in Colmar
A small square with a fountain in a Provençal town
A cobbled alley in an Alsatian village
A nineteenth-century villa in a garden
A dog running between rows of lavender
A chapel and a fountain in an Alsatian village
A sunny square under plane trees
The courtyard of an eighteenth-century palace in Strasbourg
An old water wheel along the river
A street of colourful half-timbered houses
A couple sitting by a canal among colourful houses
Vineyards and a castle above an Alsatian village
A corner café among plane trees

Switzerland

The Chapel Bridge in Lucerne
Il castello di Chillon sul lago di Ginevra
The terraced vineyards of Lavaux above Lake Geneva
Lucerne and its water tower
Un pontile di legno sul lago, con le montagne e un cielo carico di nuvole
The Lavaux terraces overlooking the lake

Italy

Una bicicletta bianca appoggiata a un vecchio muro di mattoni
The Bridge of Sighs in Venice
The Colosseum after the rain, with the wet street
A mountain waterfall with a small bridge in the Aosta Valley
A Venetian canal between colourful houses
Sunset over the Venetian lagoon
A staircase under a wisteria pergola
Turin’s Mole Antonelliana lit up at night
The clock face of the Clock Tower in Venice
A lone tree on a promontory by the lake
A Venetian canal at night
A bronze sculpture of a group of people, in black and white
A narrow alley between colourful houses
Gothic windows on a red façade in Venice
A gondola moored in a Venetian alley
Statues and flowers in a garden overlooking the lake
The Trevi Fountain in Rome
The domes of St Mark’s Basilica
The symmetrical façade of a building seen from below
A Venetian canal in the sunset light
The Great Gallery of the Reggia di Venaria
A bicycle leaning on the lakeside railing
A woman leaning out of a Venetian window
Gondolas moored along a canal, in black and white
Wisteria in bloom beside a statue
Castel Sant’Angelo with the statues of the bridge
A shop window full of colourful friulane slippers
A tree-lined avenue with a basilica on the hill in the distance
Venetian houses reflected in the canal water
A crowded street in the centre of Rome
A façade with a street lamp at dusk
A stone bridge over a canal in Venice
A frescoed hall with a chequered floor
A city skyline beyond the fields
The Vittoriano in Rome under a cloudy sky
A façade on the canal with a distant figure