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one cemetery, one villa and romeo and juliet


*Brion-vega cemetery

thurs., march 16

we left venice today, but for a good reason indeed.

our travels reunited our group with our good friends of orvieto. together we headed west towards a little town that housed one of Carlo Scarpa's marterpeices. This was the infamous Brion Vega Cemetery. it was a strange feeling being there... i proved my theory that scarpa was crazy. at least it seemed like that was the case. i admire scarpa and i trully believe there is much to learn from the guy. i like his cemetery a lot, but to do what he did with it takes the kind of rigour and stuburness that only a mad man can have.

we stopped in vicenza for the after noon. we had lunch and walked about the city for a while. i only wish that we could have stayed there much longer. it really seemed like a beautiful city. sometime during the after noon we hopped on the road again and made our way to the outskirts of vicenza. the place was La Villa Rotonda. this villa was constructed in the 16th century by andrea palladium. he was a genius. i really liked this place, too bad the inside of the house was not open to public that day. so we roamed about for some hours, it was a beautiful day and the light was just right.

now i understand why shakespeare gave verona the priviledge of housing his famous tale of romeo and juliet. its because that's exactly what verona deserved. i do believe verona is got to be one of the most romantic cities i've been to in my life. there is passion in the air. a comrade of mine descrived verona as 'the city where you go when you want to fall in love.' i agree.



*the villa rotonda


*a market in the streets of verona

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4/04/2006 09:50:00 PM

It's great to see your images and read your words about the places you're visiting. I though the Brion Cemetery was one of the most powerful places we visited while in Italy. Scarpa has a magical way of connecting the ground, earth, and sky and taking the visitor through a complete experienc of life and death with this project. One of the most powerful things...walking down the main corridor of graves, towards the cemetery entrance. Once you are inside of the small entry way turning around and seeing wonderfully isolated framed views of the graves, the trees, and then finally at the top, the sky as you ascend into the lawn...gives me chills just thinking about it. I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip.  



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