Two hearts and one city

After more than fifty years, can you have the haughtiness of knowing your city?

It is said that a lifetime is not enough to get to know a person, can the same thing be true for places that are familiar to you?

Verona I still remember with the trolley buses, beautifuls, green, with a capillary network that reached the far outskirts, in the seventies everything was dismantled to make room for Co2, and now to fight the "Global Warming", caused precisely from that infamous Co2 and to give a more efficient transport service, we go back fifty years by restoring a service that was already there.

A small example to ask me: what has changed in this city in the last half century?

I have visited many metropolises (small and large) in Italy and in Europe, some views more times, and in many I have seen an evolution, most of the time for the better, but why do I not perceive this improvement in my Verona? Will it always be due to the analogy with people, who by frequenting them on a daily basis you don't see them age and how can good wine improve?

Maybe it will be so, or maybe not, maybe one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with a historical heritage with few equals, it deserves to be valued much, much more, maybe the city of love is not only of love, too banal to associate it only with two hearts, in the background, a little blurred there is an important past, a veiled present but I hope a rosy future to tell. In these shots of mine I have tried to tell about my Verona, what I see and perhaps what I would like. 

Copyright (c) 2017 Pasquale Cotugno

A classic glimpse of Verona, in the background the silhouette of San Giorgio, on the right the namesake along Adige, a solitary figure and his white copybook, everything seems wrapped in a gloomy and apparent stillness.
The "Esse" di San Giorgio leading to the church of the same name, in the photo under the Cathedral seen from San Giorgio.

The bell tower of the cathedral and the church of San Giorgio


What will have caught my friend Franco's attention? Under Ponte Pietra and the Sanctuary of the Madonna of Lourdes


A view of Ponte Pietra and the Duomo from Castel San Pietro

A long journey together, in the background at the top left the Sanctuary of Madonna of Lourdes.

The new Peter Pan, another shot from Castel San Pietro.