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 The sun sets on Lake Como from I Giardini Di Villa Melzi, a home and gardens in Bellagio.⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
 That distinct mode of transportation in the city of canals.  ************************************  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
 Built in 1865, the iron-and-glass-domed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is the oldest active shopping mall in Milan. The four-story arcade, located at the center of the city, features many luxury shops, cafés and restaurants. Architect Giuseppe Mengon
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 Hotel Villa Cipressi and Il Giardino Botanico at Varenna on Lake Como. ⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
 Santa Croce Firenze is a basilica in Florence where Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, Rossini and other prominent Florentines are buried. Reportedly the world’s largest Franciscan church, Santa Croce was built starting at about 1294. The Neo-Gothi
 A walkway in Varenna on the banks of Lake Como. The fishing village was created in the late 700s on the lake that is nearly 30 miles north of Milan.  Photo © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
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 A fountain above the underground Apple store  in Milan.  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
 Built in 1345 to replace a flood-flattened wooden bridge, the stone and triple-arched Ponte Vecchio (translation: “old bridge”) is the longest standing span in Florence. Meat and fish markets monopolized the walkway up until the late 1500s, when jew
Milan Cathedral
Milan Cathedral
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 Table for two with a view of Lake Como. ⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
Salizzada dei Greci walkway
Salizzada dei Greci walkway
 I snapped this photo while crossing Ponte dell'Accademia, one of four bridges that span the Grand Canal, the major waterway that runs through Venice. This is a view of the southern end of the canal, with the dome of the Basilica di Santa Maria della
 Colors take center stage in my shot of buildings lining Lake Como in the village of Varenna. ⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
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 A panoramic view of Varenna from Lake Como in northern Italy near the Swiss border. I was on a ferry enroute to nearby Bellagio when I snapped this shot.    ************************************  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
 Chiese di Santa Maria del Giglio or the Church of Santa Maria Zobenigo in Venice.
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 A small beach in Varenna on Lake Como in Italy.
 Buildings on the Rio dell'Arsenale canal in Venice.
 Sundown on Lake Como at Varenna.
 Built on the Grand Canal in Venice during the 16th century, the Palazzo Barbarigo was adorned two centuries later with mosaics and Murano glass. During the early 20th century, the building served as the headquarters for a glass company.
 Sightseers view Florence from atop Brunelleschi's dome that crowns Santa Maria del Fiore, the Tuscan city’s cathedral. The pedestrian area is known as the lantern, above which is a golden ball that was made at the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio,
 Boats colorize the beach in Monterosso, one of the five villages that make up Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coast of northwest Italy.
 A woman seated on Rio di Palazzo canal with the Bridge of Sighs in background.
 Doors of Florence
The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci
 A bicycle parked along the rain soaked Lungarno Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, a street running parallel to the Arno River. This section of the road lies between the north entrance to the Ponte Vecchio and the Uffizi Gallery.  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Ke
 Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.
 A tree at the end of a promenade at Bellagio on Lake Como.⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
 A boater emerges from the Rio dell'Arsenale canal onto the San Marco Basin in Venice.  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
 A gondola travels the Rio Canonica Palazzo, a canal that links directly to the San Marco Basin in Venice. The first pedestrian bridge is the Ponte dei Cappelli, followed by the Ponte dei Consorzi.  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
 Santa Croce Church and plaza in Florence.
 La Vittoria (Victoria) by Vincenzo Consani at the Pitti Palace. This was one of my favorite sculptures in this amazing mansion-turned-museum in the heart of Florence. A professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Consani (1818-1888) emerged a
 Boaters cruise the Grand Canal in Venice.  ************************************  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
 Bridge of Sighs on the Rio di Palazzo canal in Venice.
 The Bridge of Sighs suspends high above the Rio di Palazzo canal and the lower-level Ponte della Paglia, a stone footbridge originally built in the 1300s and reconstructed in 1847 in Venice.⁠  ************************************⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Jo
 A sweeper and a friend perched on a stone  stairway in Varenna, Italv.  ************************************  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
 A pedestrian bridge on the Riva dei Sette  Martiri, a promenade on the banks of the Grand Canal and San  Marco Basin in Venice.   (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
 The Duomo in Milan was under construction for nearly 600 years, from 1386 to 1965, when it was finally completed. An exemplar of Italian Gothic architecture, the cathedral was built with pink Candoglia marble and represents one of the largest cathed
 A view of the sun setting on Lake Como from I Giardini Di Villa Melzi, a home and gardens in Bellagio.⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
 A sailboat cruises along the coast of Cinque Terre, an area of five fishing villages that cling to mountains overlooking the Mediterranean in the Liguria region of northwest Italy, known as the Italian Riviera. Above the homes are manually cultivate
 This fisherman had already casts his lines when I ventured out with my cameras early one morning while in Venice. ⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
 A day and night scene in Venice.
 Raphael’s 1509 preparatory cartoon for his painting “The School of Athens,” also titled “Philosophy,” at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. I discovered the dark room that hosts the 26x9 charcoal drawing while visiting the art gallery/library to vi
 Walking along a road leading to Varenna, I came across a home sporting this patio overlooking beautiful Lake Como. ⁠
 Florence’s Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, crowned by the signature dome by architect Filippo Brunelleschi. Ground was broken on the basilica in 1296 but the structure was not completed until 1436. ⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.c
 Once I arrived in Florence from Venice and dropped my bags at our Airbnb, I walked down to the Arno River and aimed my Nikon at the Ponte Vecchio just before the sun went to bed.   (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
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 This design pattern along the Zattere promenade is outside Santa Maria del Rosario, a church that faces the Giudecca Canal in Venice. ⁠ (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
 Bridge at Ponte Longo and Fondamenta Zattere and Rio di San Trovaso Canal on Giudecca Canal in Venice.
 Cypress Lane is one of the main pathways at Boboli Gardens in Florence. As its name suggests, the long, steep walkway is lined by stately Cypress trees and dotted with classical statuary, and flanked by smaller paths snaking through the botanical ga
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 Villa Monastero is a 14-room museum and conference center with a botanical gardens on the banks of Lake Como in Varenna, Italy. The estate was initially the site of a convent that was closed in the mid-16th century, after which the original villa wa
Riccardi-Medici Palace, Florence
Riccardi-Medici Palace, Florence
Florence Skyline
Florence Skyline
 A gondola on the Grand Canal in Venice.
 Ducks roam the grounds of I Giardini Di Villa Melzi, a home and gardens in Bellagio on Lake Como.   (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
 I kept passing this archway going to and from my Airbnb in Venice. One morning, I finally stopped to snap a shot to capture this interesting slice of the canal city’s beautiful aging brick buildings.
 “Birth of Venus” is a tempera-on-canvas painting by Sandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510) that is housed in a room devoted to the Renaissance artist at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The Roman goddess of love, sex, beauty, and fertility rides naked to th
 Venice’s trident lampposts stand near gondolas afloat on the San Marco Basin. The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore rises on an island in the distance.
 josephkellard The Church of Saint Peter is baked into a rocky  cliff at Porto Venere in northwestern Italy on the  Mediterranean Sea. I used a long lens on my Nikon D90 to  snap this image as our ferry departed from the maritime  village at the tip
 A Florence cityscape as seen from the Pitti Palace.    (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
 A replica of Michelangelo’s David overlooks Florence from the Piazzale Michelangelo in Florence.
 A path on the outer grounds of Vezio Castle in Varenna overlooks Lake Como in northern Italy ⁠near the Swiss border.  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
 The Hilton Molino Stucky is a former flour mill  on Giudecca Island on the Giudecca Canal in Venice.  *************************  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
 The Santa Maria di Nazareth abuts the Ponte  degli Scalzi bridge on the Grand Canal in Venice.  Venitian architect Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682)  designed the house of worship, also called the Church of the  Scalzi, for the religious Order of the
 This young woman had quite the expressive face amid the crowd at a busy Florentine market.  ************************************  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
 Let’s take a stroll along a main walkway running through Varenna, a quaint former fishing village nestled at the foot of mountains lining the eastern edge of Lake Como in northern Italy.   (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
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 Canal on Fondamenta del Pintor in Venice.  ************************************  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)  ************************************
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 Florentine landscape with the former city wall as seen from the Boboli Gardens in Florence.
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 The Torre del Gallo (top-left) is a castle-like  structure nestled in the hills of Arcetri in Florence, south of  the city center. I snapped this photo from Boboli Gardens,  looking south from the garden outside the Porcelain Museum  (Photo: © 2019
 I snapped a shot of these colorful homes, nestled in the hills of Florence, from the Boboli Gardens at the center of the city. ⁠
 A slice of Florence, featuring the Ponte Vecchio bridge crossing the Arno River, as viewed from Piazzale Michelangelo, a square offering elevated panoramic views of the Tuscan city. ⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
Steep Stairs, Porto Venere
Steep Stairs, Porto Venere
 While on the lookout for interesting doors to photograph, I came across this bike parked beside a broken, gated window hosting a potted plant in Porto Venere, a village on the northwest coast of Italy. ************************************  (Photo: ©
 Wrought iron on a pedestrian bridge on the Rio de le Toresie canal in Venice.
 The dome of the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute rises above the Grand Canal in Venice.
 Sunbathers shelter under colorful umbrellas on the rocky coast of  Monterroso, a village in the Cinque Terre region  of northwest Italy.   (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
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 I snapped this photo of a gentleman at his family-owned art gallery on the Rio de le Toreseie canal in Venice. My sister and I struck up a conversation with him and learned that he acquired the gallery from his father. He told us about his travels a
 Collage of doors of Venice.
 The warm lights on this dock for gondolas, backed by the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, lured me to take a snapshot of this scene on the Grand Canal in romantic Venice. ⁠  ************************************⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/k
 I snapped this photo along a stretch of road in Florence named Lungarno degli Acciaiuoli that runs along the Arno River between the Ponte Vecchio and the bridge in the distance, the Ponte Santa Trinita. While I was editing the image in Lightroom, th
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 A bakery in Venice. ⁠  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
 These low-hanging clouds gathered after a rain storm in Florence. I took this shot from the Ponte alle Grazie, a bridge that spans over the Arno River. I pointed my camera eastward as the late afternoon sun hit the buildings lining the northside of
 Built in 1865, the iron-and-glass-domed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is the oldest active shopping mall in Milan. The four-story arcade, located in the center of the city, has many stylish, luxury shops and cafés and restaurants. It was designed by
 Colorful homes line the Rio dell’Arsenale canal in Venice. ⁠I went out with my cameras early one morning in the city of canals and found this expansive one nearby my Airbnb.   (Photo: © 2019 Joseph
 When I visited Varenna, a village on Lake Como  in northern Italy, I hiked up a mountain and climbed to the top  of the 12th-century Vezio Castle. From there, I took many  photos of the surrounding areas, including this birds-eye view  of the neighb
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 The wet pavement of the winding Luigi Fusaro in Florence.
 While traveling in Italy I came across several model shoots, including this one with a woman in a black backless dress in Florence. She looks across the Arno River at the Vasari Corridor, an arched and elevated walkway—extending from the Palazzo Vec
 A glass-encased fountain crowns an underground Apple Store at the Piazza del Liberty in Milan.⁠ Below the fountain, water travels down to a glass wall that people stand behind while their friends and family members snap photos of them—presumably wit
 Colorful marble, bas-reliefs and columns distinguish the main façade of Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice. The cathedral’s architecture is an intermarriage of western and eastern influences, including Byzantine mingling with Romanesque and Gothic flo
 In Venice on vacation, I went out early one morning to take photos while the crowds slept. As I roamed, I came across many narrow, hidden alleys and walkways, another distinct feature in this city of canals. This particular walkway is Calle San Dome
 A view of Lake Como from Vezio  Castle in Varenna, Italy. I hiked up a mountain  path and climbed to the top of the medieval  structure to get this shot.    (Photo: © 2019 Joseph  Kellard/kellardmedia.com
 Alley in Venice.
 A highlight of my travels in Italy was happening upon small churches, often tucked away within a city or village, with non-descript façades and richly decorative and ornamental interiors.  Among these delights was Santa Maria presso San Satiro (The
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 Completed in 1591 as a single stone-arch span, the Rialto Bridge was the only fixed structure to cross the Grand Canal in Venice prior to the 1850s. Antonio da Ponte and his nephew, Antonio Contino, designed the Rialto (named after the city’s primar
 A collage of Florence storefronts: Clockwise from top right: Otto Atelier, a photography gallery; a green grocer and wine shop; Canto del Ramerino, a pizza restaurant; and Contempo Records, a vinyl LP shop.  ************************************  Pho
 A gondola on the Grand Canal in  Venice.  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
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 A taxi-boat cruises along the Giudecca canal in  Venice. The towering building in the distance is the neo-  Gothic Molino Stucky on Giudecca island. German architect  and artist Ernst Wullekopf designed the building, and Swiss  businessman Giovanni
 Narrow alleys and walkways are commonplace  in Venice, the "floating city" consisting of more than 110 small  islands carved up by some 150+ canals.  (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
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 The Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni lines the@shore in Bellagio⁠. I snapped this photo as our ferry approached the village on Lake Como in northern Italy.    (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)⁠
  A boat sails on Lake Como in northern Italy.  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com
 Boats cruise the Grand Canal in Venice.  ************************************  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
 The facade of Basilica di Santa Maria della  Salute on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Venetian architect  Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682) designed the octagonal  church. Construction began in 1631 "to preserve the city of  Venice from the terribl
 The Via di S Niccolo, a narrow street one block  south of the Arno River in Florence, after a rain storm.
 “Joe, when you go to Italy, you’re going to feel sometimes like you’re on a movie set.”   (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
  Summer by Giovanni Caccini, one of Four Seasons statues on the Ponte Santa Trinita bridge in Florence.  Photo Joseph Kellard
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 Alley and stairs in Varenna, Italy.
 A boat cruises through a straight in Porto Venere, a village on the Ligurian Sea in northwestern Italy.  (Photo: © Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
 La Spezia is a port city and naval base in the Liguria region of northwestern Italy.   (Photo: © 2019 Joseph Kellard/kellardmedia.com)
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