Mantua, Lombardy, Italy - my pics - Page 2

WalkTheWorld · #21 Posted **May 10, 2009, 5:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by GaborFrankl

Walkthe World,

Could you post the missing pictures again which were deleted on the thread? I`d be curious about them.

weird, I can still see them all...

I haven't been notified of any cancellation either...Maybe a bandwidth problem?

I'm puzzled.

WalkTheWorld · #22 Posted **May 10, 2009, 5:17 PM**

Some more for the day...

Early Town Hall, XII Century, main entrance

Rotunda church, detail. It's fun to see how layering make the street level raise higher with the centuries...

I like to sit down and enjoy a drink at a street coffee, when no one is around..

Getting ready for the Streetdance Festival...bandstands and weird installations are being rigged up in every square

David and Goliath. Meaningless, I just loved the colors

Old Cathedral and morning sky

As the hour grows late the bustling crowd of locals and visitors gets out of control..here's around noon..

WalkTheWorld · #23 Posted **May 10, 2009, 8:22 PM**

WalkTheWorld · #24 Posted **May 10, 2009, 8:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by TinChelseaNYC

This tour is superb. It's nice to see the newer parts of town, too (some of them are very nice). Mantova looks very civilized and livable!

It's definitely enjoyable...quaint and laid back.

philadelphiathrives · #25 Posted **May 11, 2009, 5:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by WalkTheWorld

Oh I see. This prompts a suggestion. Gentrification is ok and the influx of college students reviving a comunity is cool..
would you mind...
Maybe..
If you've got the time...

...Share some pics of Mantua, Pa?

I wish I could, but I don't have a digital camera. If I could afford one, I probably wouldn't be living in Mantua.

The most I might be able to do is send to you a couple pictures of an implosion of an 18 storey housing project (which in the US means housing for the poor) that occurred last year. Someone posted the pics on the web; maybe on skyscraperpage, although I don't remember. But, I'm not sure how to do that yet.

Anyways, the site of the housing project, called Mantua Hall, is about to be rebuilt with nicer housing for the working class, called Mantua Homes. That new development is the biggest reason the neighborhood is changing so quickly, because middle-class people didn't feel safe living near the old building because of its reputation for crime. The neighborhood has so much potential because it is near downtown, several universities, Philadelphia's huge Fairmount Park, the Philadelphia Zoo, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a major expressway.

WalkTheWorld · #26 Posted **May 11, 2009, 6:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by philadelphiathrives

I wish I could, but I don't have a digital camera. If I could afford one, I probably wouldn't be living in Mantua.

The most I might be able to do is send to you a couple pictures of an implosion of an 18 storey housing project (which in the US means housing for the poor) that occurred last year. Someone posted the pics on the web; maybe on skyscraperpage, although I don't remember. But, I'm not sure how to do that yet.

Anyways, the site of the housing project, called Mantua Hall, is about to be rebuilt with nicer housing for the working class, called Mantua Homes. That new development is the biggest reason the neighborhood is changing so quickly, because middle-class people didn't feel safe living near the old building because of its reputation for crime. The neighborhood has so much potential because it is near downtown, several universities, Philadelphia's huge Fairmount Park, the Philadelphia Zoo, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a major expressway.

Oh I see, we used to call that kind of buildings "People's Homes" (how else?) but now the new term is a more neutral "subsidized housing". We have a large project beyond the river which never became a real issue but for a long time the crime rate was much higher than anywhere else...I mean...if you did not find your car in the morning THAT could be the place to check. There's a lot of reviving now and it's becoming a multi-racial working class neighborhood.

WalkTheWorld · #27 Posted **May 11, 2009, 8:25 PM**

I do not know if this complies with the forum rules. if it doesn't just let me know. Tjese are not my pictures and I downloaded them from the local university historical archive. As far as I can see they post no disclaier.

Source http://web.tiscalinet.it/unimn/manto...rici/testo.htm

This post is dedicated to the interiors of the Duke's residence in Mantua, a large cluster of buildings at the heart of what used to be a tiny , proud and wealthy state for nearly 400 years. It was the far gone era of the italian City States, you know...

The Hall of Manto

The Room of Mantua Rivers

The Corridor of Mirrors

The Exhibition Gallery. All paintings have gone. In the final years the Gonzaga family was broke and sold most of it to King Charles of England who unfortunately had little time to enjoy it. Some of it can be seen at Hampton Court Castle.

A painting, depicting the day the Gonzaga family seized power...the interesting part of it is the ancient façade of the main Cathedral now replaced by a baroque façade built when Mantua became part of the Austrian empire..

Domus Nova: gardens

Frescoes: the ceiling of the Zodiac Room and the Camera Picta (the former..I dunno, the latter by Andrea Mantegna)

and this comes from another mansion, it's called the Hall of Giants. pretty impressive when you walk in there.. by Giulio Romano