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Art: Interest in the incidental

13th November 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

Look at some of the great fine art paintings and you will see how the artist ensures that all elements even the seemingly incidental parts of the painting that are not the main focus sill provide enough dynamic interaction, fascination or drama to be worthy of framing themselves. Whether it be the almost impressionistic portrayal […]

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Rifugiati Ucraini

28th August 2023.Reading time 12 minutes.

by Giovanni Mereghetti In the early spring of 2022, seventeen families unexpectedly arrived at the former Convent of the Annunciata in Abbiategrasso, a well-known town west of Milan, the capital of Lombardy, Italy.  The fifty-one people, including fourteen minors, weren’t ordinary people.  These were people fleeing the burning cities of Ukraine: Mykolaiv, Kherson, Lviv, Odessa, […]

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An End of Summer Escape to Sardinia

12th September 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

The Italian Island of Sardinia offers visitors some of Europe’s most beautiful and unspoiled beaches.  Located 120 miles west of mainland Italy and 120 miles north of Africa, this beautiful island provides adventures along it’s coastal trails and across its lush interior. After being proclaimed King of Italy in 1861, Victor Emmanuel II united the often-forgotten […]

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