Alphabet Thursday … I is for Italy

Still walking in the streets but now in Italy; Italian cities are considered the ideals among travellers who are enthralled by the ways their architecture give beauty and meaning to everyday lives.  Authors compare and demonstrate the ways in which ‘plazas and streets can function to tie a city together socially and architecturally’. While in other cities have ‘deteriorated  into highways and parking lots’.  One author tells us of the Bologna’s portico,  a 4 mile walkway going from the central square to the countryside.  Another, describes Milan’s Galleria, winding streets of Perugia, car-free streets of Perugia and two storey public arcades of Brisighella.  A New Yorker in appreciation of the Italian walkers says ‘In ancient Italian towns the narrow streets at dusk becomes a kind of theatre’.   

Images from

http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/the-portico-an-ancient-architectural-people-protector

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleria_Vittorio_Emanuele