One year ago the Italian army had to be deployed to relieve the morgue of Bergamo, Italy and bring the corpses of covid19 victims to be burned in other locations in northern Italy. This day has been chosen to remember the victims of the pandemic.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Taffo, an Italian funeral services, promoting itself at the covid19 deniers protest in Rome last week.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Italian woman inspects Scottish soldiers erm... material of their kilts in the second world war.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Two Rottweiler in front of the Rottweiler statue in Rottweil, Baden Wurtemberg, Germany4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Agreement that gay,lesbian or bisexual people should have the same rights as heterosexual people in EU member states4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The oldest door still in use in Rome. Cast in bronze for emperor Hadrian' rebuilding, they date from about 115 AD4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Cool monuments of Europe: Woman with the purse (swedish :Kvinnan med handvaskan) in Vaxjo, Sweden. Every April 13th Danuta Danielsson is commemorated for having hit with her purse neonazi Seppo Seluska in 1985.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
A moment of appreciation for Irena Sendler, a Polish humanitarian who saved dozens of Jewish children from death by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto. She was born on Feb 15 1910. Happy birthday, Irena!4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
We will leave a light on. The Greens/EFA parliamentary group at the European Parliament bidding farewell to our dear Scottish friends4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
World Peace Day. 35 years ago, on 21st September 1984, French president Francois Mitterrand and German chancellor Helmut Kohl held hands. It became a symbol of European reconciliation and friendship − a gesture that spoke louder than words.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
It's been so sweltering hot in Rome this August that the boars were sweating like a pig3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The EMA staff in London has held a final ceremony taking down the flags of the 27 EU members before heading to Amsterdam.5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Instead of tearing it down, in 2015 a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the Ukrainian city of Odessa has been given a sci-fi twist - by being transformed into Darth Vader3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Vedo i vostri trionfi della morte per lo spookoctober e rilancio con la chiesa di San Bernardino delle ossa a Milano3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Non e Lercio: il nuovo governo Draghi ha posato per la prima foto ufficiale davanti ad un arazzo raffigurante una truffa3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
The hand shake, the fist bump or the high five are too risky, the roman salute is too historically tainted. We Europeans have just one choice left for social niceties. Live long and prosper, my friends.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Un fotografo maltese e riuscito a fotografare l'Etna innevato dall'isola di Gozo, a piu di 300 km di distanza.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Il 23 Maggio 1992 il giudice antimafia Giovanni Falcone, sua moglie Francesca Morvillo e 3 agenti di scorta, Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo e Antonio Montinaro, furono uccisi da una bomba della mafia nei pressi di Capaci.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Accade oggi: La notte del 5 Maggio 1860 un contingente di 1162 camicie rosse guidato da Giuseppe Garibaldi salpa da Quarto, vicino Genova per la Sicilia. La spedizione dei mille sbarchera a Marsala l'11 maggio.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
On 25th August 1256 the city state of Bologna, Italy promulgated the Liber Paradisus act, proclaiming the abolition of slavery and the release of indentured serfs, making it the first city in Italy, and possibly the world to abolish slavery3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
On 13th Nov 2015 an attack by ISIS affiliated islamic terrorists took place in Paris and St Denis. The attackers killed 130 people, including 90 at the Bataclan theatre. Never forget.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst, activists of the non-violent student resistance group white rose in Nazi Germany 1942. This day 74 years ago all three were convicted for treason and beheaded by the Gestapo.7yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Amarena, una femmina di orso bruno marsicano, con ben quattro cuccioli al seguito a Villalago, Abruzzo. La famigliola ha generato cosi tanto interesse tra i fotografi naturalisti che il parco ha dovuto chiudere al transito le strade per tutelarla.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
On August 7, 1420, the construction of the dome of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore began in Florence. Today Brunelleschi's dome is the most characteristic feature of the Florentine skyline and the world's largest brick dome.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Piazza dell'unita' d'Italia, Trieste, Italy. Connecting the old medieval centre with the Borgo Teresiano (Theresien Vorstadt), it is Europe's biggest square facing the sea.6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Scale model of imperial Rome at the Museum of Roman civilisation, made between 1933 and 1955.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Castel del Monte, Murgie, Apulia. Built in the 1240s for HRE Friedrich II Hohenstaufen, the mysterious and unique deisgn of the castle is made of an octagonal prism with an octagonal tower at each corner.7yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Human chess game of Marostica, Italy. The game reenacts a legendary chess game played by two gentlemen in 1454, who both contended to marry the local lord's daughter, Lionora. Instead of a bloody duel, the lord decided that the two should match wits instead of swords in a game of chess.7yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
this month's eruption of mount Etna as seen from the town of Zafferana etnea, Sicily.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Some cathedrals are not meant for praying: parmigiano reggiano cheese wheels maturing in Busseto, near Parma, Italy3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
La Fenice Opera House of Venice. Almost completely burned down in 1996 during a restoration, it was rebuilt as it was and reopened in 2004.5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The recent eruption of mount Etna from the town of Castiglione di Sicilia, Italy5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
L'ordine dei giornalisti deferisce Libero per il titolo di prima pagina del 27 febbraio4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Today 16th December marks the 250th of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest composers in history and author of the 9th symphony aka the anthem of Europe3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The Arab-Norman-Byzantine Cathedral of Monreale, Sicily, said to have the largest display of byzantine mosaics after Haghia Sophia in Istanbul6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini demonstrating the correct response when the Kremlin offers tea.5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Today's All Souls' day. What are the most romantic places connected to this festivity? Here's a tomb at the monumental cemetery of Milan, Italy3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1944 a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others. Forever RIP, young girl.5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
A rare 1911 aerial photograph of the Vatican, showing its isolation at the edge of Rome and the neighbourhood known as Rione di Borgo before the demolitions.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The university town of Marburg, Hesse, Germany, where the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine is being produced.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Il teatrino di Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati a Bologna, il piu piccolo (80 posti) teatro all'italiana esistente5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
A young Arnold Schwarzenegger at the 1971 Mr Olympia, which he won for a total 7 times.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The silver lining of covid19: seeing old friends without the hordes of package tourism. Florence, June 8th 20204yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The bridge of tears, county Donegal, Ireland. The bridge was the spot where the emigrants' families would say goodbye. Due to the cost of travel, and the unlikeliness that the emigrants would return, their leaving was treated like a funeral.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Accade oggi: nasce il 5 settembre 1827 Goffredo Mameli, compositore dell'inno nazionale Il canto degli Italiani. Muore a soli 21 anni a Roma nei combattimenti in difesa della Repubblica Romana del 1848.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Andrea Bocelli performs Amazing grace in the eerily empty Piazza del Duomo of Milan during his Easter live concert Music for Hope4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
On 14th August 1944 the partisan courier Irma Bandiera, nom de guerre Mimma was shot by the fascists in Bologna, Northern Italy, after she refused to divulge the names of other partisans. She was previously blinded and tortured for 6 days and 5 nights. She was 29 at the time.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Last month's snowfall reveal the violin shaped esplanade of the Royal Palace of Caserta, near Naples.5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
On 2 August 1980 85 people were killed at the central station of Bologna, Italy by a bomb planted by a neofascist organisation called NAR.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
A female of marsican brown bear, a subspecies of bear in danger of extinction, with a record 4 cubs in Villalago, Abruzzo, Italy. The exceptional family has generated so much hype that the national park of Abruzzo had to close off some roads to protect her.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
An hidden corner of Rome: Via biberatica, an exceptionally preserved II century AD street part of Trajan's market, used since the middle ages as storage rooms and stables.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
20 years after being gutted in a fire and a painstaking restoration project, the chapel of the Holy Shroud, a masterpiece of Italian Baroque architecture by mathematician Guarino Guarini, reopens in Turin, Italy [building]5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/architecture
The fishing village of Scilla on the southernmost tip of the Italian peninsula, Calabria.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
L'isola del Lazzaretto nuovo a Venezia. Per 400 anni fu usata dalla Serenissima per isolare i marinai sospettati di portare la peste. L'isolamento forzato durava 40 giorni, da cui l'usanza di chiamare quarantena questa pratica.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
The dome of the church of St Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome - Francesco Borromini (1660) [Building]6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/architecture
Wandering through the quaintness of Schwabisch Hall, Baden Wurttemberg, Germany4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Massimo rispetto a Torino, Firenze, Busto e Trani, ma una citta che fa della misura delle ghiandole mammarie delle sue cittadine un motivo di vanto e chiaramente superiore5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
The geometrical proportions of the facade of the church of Santa Maria Novella by Leon Battista Alberti (mid 1400s), Florence [building]6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/architecture
Il 2 Agosto 1980 alle 10.25 del mattino una bomba, piazzata da militanti di estrema destra, esplose alla stazione di Bologna, uccidendo 85 persone e ferendone 200. Rimane tutt'oggi il piu grave atto terroristico del dopoguerra in Italia.6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
The monument of the four moors in Livorno, Tuscany. Today a BLM protest is going to depart from there.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Merry Christmas y'all from Urtijei/Ortisei/Sankt Ulrich, Sudtirol, Italy [OC]3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Il 28 aprile 1140 veniva consacrata la Cappella Palatina. Gioiello della cultura arabo-normanno-bizantina, si trova all'interno del complesso architettonico di Palazzo dei Normanni a Palermo ed e Patrimonio mondiale dell’UNESCO.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
The territories of the Roman empire superimposed onto North America for size comparison3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Il Prato della Valle a Padova, la piazza piu grande d'Italia e la piazza di forma ellittica piu grande al mondo.5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Il Piemonte da il meglio di se in autunno: la campagna di Serralunga d'Alba dal suo castello, Langhe.5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Il bel paese: le mura di Montagnana (PD), uno dei borghi medievali meglio conservati d'Italia4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Original vintage poster celebrating the signing of the treaty of Rome by the six founding nations of the EU7yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
In 1889 a monument to Giordano Bruno was erected in Campo de Fiori, Rome, on the same site where he was burned at stake for his philosophy in 1600. His monument, harshly criticised by the church, became a symbol of free thinking and defiance to the pope.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The Margravial Opera House of Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany, the only entirely preserved baroque court of its kind6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The Scrovegni chapel of Padua, Italy. The chapel contains a fresco cycle by Giotto, completed about 1305 and considered to be an important masterpiece and milestone in the development of western painting.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
With the royal decree n. 33, today in 1871 the capital of the Kingdom of Italy was transferred from Florence to Rome.6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Il 6 Aprile 1483 nasceva ad Urbino Raffaello Sanzio, il divin pintore. Buon compleanno, maestro!5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Caffe Florian in Venice. Founded in 1720, it's the oldest coffee house in continuous operation in the world.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Palaiokastritsa, Corfu, Greece, where, according to the legend, Ulysses was found stranded on the beach by princess Nausicaa of the Phaeacians3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The hexagonal town plan of Avola, Sicily, rebuilt ex novo according to Renaissance and Baroque urban planning principles after the devastating 1693 earthquake in Sicily and Malta5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Il 12 Agosto 1944 le Waffen SS naziste, coadiuvate dalla 36ma brigata nera Mussolini entro nel paese di Sant'Anna di Stazzema (LU) e assassino 530 persone, tra cui 130 bambini, in un'operazione contro la Resistenza.6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Il 16 ottobre 1943, alle 5 del mattino, la Gestapo inizio il rastrellamento del ghetto di Roma, una retata di 1259 persone, di cui 689 donne, 363 uomini e 207 tra bambini e bambine quasi tutti appartenenti alla comunita ebraica. Di queste persone solo 16 sopravvissero alla deportazione ad Auschwitz5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
On this day 100 years ago, Federico Fellini, one of the greatest filmakers of the postwar era was born in Rimini, Italy.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The Egyptian Museum of Turin, Italy, the world's second most important collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities after the Grand Egyptian Museum of Cairo6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
On 7 October 1571 a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic Christian states formed by the Spain, the republic of Venice, the Papal states, the republic of Genoa,etc ,defeated the fleet of the Ottoman Empire at the battle of Lepanto, near Patras, Greece.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Con il regio decreto n.33 del 3 Febbraio 1871, la capitale d'Italia viene ufficialmente trasferita da Firenze a Roma. Buon anniversario!6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
The abbey of Montecassino, Lazio, Italy. Known as the lighthouse of western civilization, it was founded by St Benedict of Nursia in 529 AD as the first house of his order and therefore the first monastic institution of western Christianity.3yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
75 years ago the Warrsaw ghetto uprising started on April 19th 1943. 13,000 Jews, including women and children, perished during the 27 days of the revolt, the single biggest act of revolt by Jews during WWII6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Il 6 gennaio del 1980 un killer fredda il presidente della Regione Sicilia Piersanti Mattarella con 8 colpi di pistola. Quel giorno il primo a soccorrerlo e proprio il fratello Sergio, oggi Presidente della Repubblica.5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Per la serie monumenti compromettenti: il monumento funebre al doge Giovanni Pesaro, nella basilica dei Frari a Venezia.4yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/italy
Today's St Andrew's day. Here's the Cathedral of Amalfi, Italy, which, alongside the Cathedral of Patras, Greece, holds the remains of St Andrew.5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The stage set scenography for the TV series Rome in Cinecitta, Rome, the largest film studio in Europe, where the bulk of the Swords and sandals movies of the 50s and 60s, like Ben Hur and Cleopatra, were filmed.5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Happened today: Antonio Vivaldi, one of the most popular and prolific composer of the Baroque era was born on this day in 1678 in Venice. Happy birthday, Antonio!5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
Satirical cartoon: France's Marianne does not follow in the US and UK footsteps7yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
The ribbed vaulted dome of the church of San Lorenzo, Turin, Italy. Built by mathematician Guarino Guarini in the 1660s [building]6yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/architecture
I see your dusk and nightfall in the Netherlands and Frankfurt and I raise you: sunset in Bologna, Italy5yr ⋅ standy85 ⋅ r/europe
