Europe
PHOTO-PRESS: ANDREA BATTAGLINI
TRAVEL WRITER AND PHOTOGRAPHER
EUROPE
AUSTRIA
WIEN HAYDN (1809-2009)
WIEN BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
ALPBACH (TIROL)
INN VALLEY (TIROL)
SCHUBERT'S ITINERARY (Wien, Steyr, Badgastein, Traunsee...)
ISCHGL SKI&SOUND
STRAUSS WIEN
WIEN FREUD
LECH (WINTERTIME)
SALZBURG
KALS (OSTTIROL, WINTERTIME),BABYSKI PARADISE
HUNDERTWASSER ITINERARY
BELGIUM
ANTWERPEN
BRUXELLES
ANNEVOIE HISTORIC GARDEN
VILLAGE DU LIVRES:REDU
BULGARIA
MONASTERIES (Bachkovo, Rozhen, Dryanovo, Rila, Preobrazhensky...)
WODDEN VILLAGES (Zeravna, Bansko, Trjavna, Sozopol, Koprivstika, Melnik...)
SOFIA, VARNA
CZECH REPUBLIC
PRAGUE from Mozart to Kundera
PRAGUE NOUVEAU: Mucha and the Architectures Secese Style
DANMARK
E-COPENHAGEN 2009
LEGOLAND/BILLUND
BORNHOLM, DESIGN ISLAND
KRO, OLD POST-STATIONS NOW RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS
CASTLES AND GARDENS/SJAELLAND
ESTONIA
TALLINN, MEDIOEVAL TOWN
FINLAND
KARELIA IN WINTERTIME
HELSINKI DESIGN
HELSINKI IN WINTERTIME
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)
SAINT TROPEZ
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
GEORGIA
SVANETI REGION (UNESCO) - Abkhazia border. Arts and Architectures (Medioeval Towers, XII c.), Bizantine Churches with frescoes and peasant's houses with art treasures as golden and silver Medioeval crosses, old-way of river fishing, Caucasus Mountains (5.000 meter), Mestia and Ushguli
SHATILI FORTRESS VILLAGE (Unesco looking for protection): Chechnya border in Caucasus Mountains
TBILISI, GORI and Stalin's Museum
Telavi and Kakheti wine's region + old monasteries and georgian churches.
MONASTERIES of Gelati, Ananauri, David Goreja
GERMANY
BLUE RIDERS Muenchen and Murnau/Kochel alpine Region : following the steps of "Blue Riders" painters (Marc, Kandinskij, Jawlensky, Muenter...)
J.S.BACH in Turingen and Saxen-Anhalt: Koethen, Leipzig, Weimar, Arnstadt, Eisenach, Erfurt...
BRAHMS AND BADEN-BADEN
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
BERCHTESGADEN , new Hotel Intercontinental (360°) and Berghof, Documentation Center and Hitler's House
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
LUBECK AND THOMAS MANN (1955-2005) from Buddenbrock to Tonio KroEger
CHRISTMASMARKETS in Bavaria (Augsburg, Regensburg), Luebeck, Hamburg, Heidelberg and Baden-Wurtenberg
GREECE
DODECANESO: Rodi, Karpatos, Halki, Simi
CORFU
GREENLAND
DISKO BAY Jakobshavn
HOLLAND
AMSTERDAM/LEIDEN REMBRANDT : 1606-2006. Leiden and Amsterdam following the steps of the painter.
VERMEER ITINERARY: DEN HAAG AND DELFT
CANALS OF HOLLAND: METAPHYSICS WATERS
HUNGARY
BUDAPEST: Art Nouveau Budapest, Lechner and the architecture Szcessiò Style.
TOKAJ REGION - EGER town and the red wine Egri Bikaver, Veszprem
ICELAND
REYKJAVIK: Iceland of Books, Books of Island
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
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.
LITHUANIA
VILNIUS Capital of Eastern Barock Style. The Drama Capital (theatre directors Nekrosius, Tuminas, Kourschanova, Mamontovas, Drama Theatre...).
LUXEMBOURG
LUXEMBOURG CITY
MOSELLE RIVER
NORWAY
OLSO
LOFOTEN ISLANDS in wintertime
POLAND
LODZ Polish cultural capitol. Industrial archeology factories, Cinema Int. School, Museum of Modern Art, Camerimage, Biennale of Art Construction in progress, Art Nouveau houses...
KRAKOW WAJDA "KATYN" LOCATIONS
WARSAW OR PRAGA? THE NEW COOL AREA OF THE POLISH CAPITAL - CHOPINIANA: THE CITY OF CHOPIN
FROM BRESLAU TO WRACLAW: A SUDOKU HISTORY
PORTUGAL
LISBOA AND PESSOA
ALENTEJO AND SARAMAGO
AZORES ISLAND
FAIAL (aZORES) AND TABUCCHI'S "PORTO PIM"
ROMANIA
BUCHAREST, THE IRON CAPITAL
DRACUL IN ROMANIA Brasov, Sighisoara...
MONASTERIES IN BUCOVINA AND WOODDEN CHURCHES IN MARAMURES
PELES CASTLE
RUSSIA
SAINT PETERSBURG WINTER AND SUMMERTIME (author of a photobook by Mazzotta ed., Milan, 2002) 2017
MOSCOW UNDERGROUND 2017. Cool Moscow lumière with trendy bars and café, art-galleries, restaurants, hotels, markets, shopping. Kremlin and its museums, monasteries, subway, people, Stalin' Architectures...
MOSCOW OF CHECOV
TOLSTOJ' RUSSIA: MOSCOW AND JASNAJA POLJANA - TULA
SERBIA
Monasteries and romanesque churches in Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia
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
MADRID EL ESCORIAL
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
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)
BERNER OBERLAND Justistal and Cheese Production, Jungfrau Region and Wengen, Interlaken, Emmentaller (Cheese Valley)
SASS FEE IN SUSPENCE WINTERTIME
CRANS MONTANA WINTERTIME SKI AND MUSIC
LUZERN MUSIC AND PIANO FESTIVAL 2017
LUZERN CARNIVAL
SANKT GALLEN AND THE ROCOCO LIBRARY
JURA AND FRANC-MONTAGNARD HORSES
BERN AND KLEE ZENTRUM Klee Zentrum by Renzo Piano, Bern amd the Berner Oberland following the tracks of Paul Klee
SWISS BANKS
LAUSANNE 2007
RIEDERALP winter station without cars
ZERMATT IN WINTER
VERBIER IN WINTER
LEUKERBAD SKI AND SPA STATION WINTER
DAVOS KLOSTERS AND THOMAS MANN the Enchanted Mountain-Thomas Mann (1955-2005) and Ludwig Kirchner
CANTON TICINO temporary and contemporary (art, design, architecture by Mario Botta, Aurelio Galfetti, Bogdana Cerska), contemporary art museums of Mendrisio, Ascona, Lugano, Bellinzona; international graphic-designer as Bruno Monguzzi and his school...
LOCARNO ANOTHER FESTIVAL because of culture
GSTAAD and the elegant Palace Hotel (winter season).
ZURICH, NEW TIME: from Banker's time to Learned' one
SWEDEN
STOCKHOLM IN WINTER
WEST COAST: THE INGRID BERGMAN' OYSTER BANKS
GOTEBORG
TURKEY
ISTANBUL FROM CHRISTIE TO PAMUK
MAZI, PARADISE COAST
UKRAINE
ODESSA following the steps of M.Ejzenstejn 'Potëmkin"- 1905 Revolution (2005 Centenary)- children's diseases, because of Chernobyl's consequences, mother affected by SIDA, Syphilis, Tubercolosis (sex-tourism, prostitution and ignorance)
KIEV SNAKE CITY: soviet architectures, soviet sculptures, churches, monasteries, museums, people, parks...
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
PEAKS DISTRICT Haddon Hall, Chatsworth House, Bakewell, Matlock...and "Pride and Prejudice" film location of the movie with Keira Knightley based on Jane Austen novel
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