Altinate Center - The Square Cloister by sandra46

Photography • Architecture • posted on Aug 05, 2009

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Here you can see the opposite side of the cloister, and the wall on our right. If you watch well, you can see that the shot on the left is the same as yesterday's, but with a wide angle. The light tricks and the shadows in this building gave me a series of good shots, which I'll post in the future. As I said, here Flavia and me got a tiny place in the footnotes of the book of history. Written with a font so small you need the electronical miscroscope to see it.;D) This building rests on the site of Roman and medieval previous buildings. It was started in the late 16th century, but it was finished only in the early 18th century as a convent attached to a nearby church. In the second half of the 19th century it became a Court of Justice. It survived a fire in 1920, and went on as a Court until the 1980s, when it was abandoned for the new building, a very ugly, grey structure near my apartment. With the move, most legal studies moved too, and the area declined, until after years of political bickering (a lot of money involved), it was opened last year as a container for art events, exhibitions, and the public library. We went there for the exhibition on Galileo, who discovered the satellites of Jupiter while working in Padova. Thank you for your kind comments.

Comments (35)

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flaviok

10:31AM | Wed, 05 August 2009

Esplendida captura, fascinante, aplausos (5)

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Amosicho

10:37AM | Wed, 05 August 2009

Fantastic shots

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DarkStormCrow

10:59AM | Wed, 05 August 2009

Very nice shots, well done...

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carlx

11:26AM | Wed, 05 August 2009

Excellent images!!!

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claude19

12:13PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

I thnak you very much for all these explanations ! I am very happy that this site become a Center of Expositions...here about Galileo and Jupiter ! SPLENDID shot with all these games of reflects on glasses to glasses and through glasses !!! EXCELLENT shot for a OUTSTANDING result !!!

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MOSKETON

12:13PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

FANTASTICA IMAGEN, FELICIDADES.

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magnus073

12:41PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

It is beautiful and like Claude I always enjoy your explanations that breathes real life into your photos

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lyron

12:44PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

Great image. Very cool shot!!

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brycek

12:45PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

Fantastic capture and information!!

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flora-crassella

1:13PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

very interesting image!!!!! Wonderful photo work!!!!

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sema_fox

1:37PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

wonderful

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bmac62

1:43PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

Clever those Romans and Italians. Great shot with a fascinating history.

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MagikUnicorn

1:43PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

Gorgeous Words...and Great collage :)

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durleybeachbum

1:51PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

What a fascinating place!

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Umbetro38

1:59PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

wow what a cool view - looks so amazing

MrsLubner

2:10PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

A marvelous place and this is a great view!

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ShadowsNTime

5:07PM | Wed, 05 August 2009

What a fabulous place! I love all the shadows that give it the abstract feel. Very interesting info. Very kewl that you and Flavia got sited in the history even if its too small to see, lol! Thanks for your story on my tale of the police, simply amazing isn't it? We are so far apart yet the very same scenario plays itself out. Sort of nice to know I am not alone:-)!

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