Fog In Via Garibaldi

Another view of that foggy night, at via Garibaldi with the Luci D'Artista lighted up.

This year, the work Palomar by Giulio PAOLINI is installed along via Garibaldi.

Location : Via Garibaldi

Mountains Afar

Via Garibaldi is one of the longest pedestrian walk in Europe. 

In a clear pleasant day, walking along via Garibaldi can be very delightful, especially with the mountains afar vividly visible.

The cool air from the yesterday cold breeze mingling in the air with the warmth of the late morning sun. 

We had a surprisingly satisfying walk.

location: Via Garibaldi

Night Walk At Via Garibaldi

Via Garibaldi is a pedestrian street, among the main ones in the historic center of Turin, which connects Piazza Castello with Piazza Statuto and represents one of the oldest city streets, as well as one of the main axes of the Iulia Augusta Taurinorum, up to Via della Consolata. Under Vittorio Amedeo II it was extended to the current Corso Valdocco and in the nineteenth century it was finally connected to Piazza Statuto via the last stretch equipped with buildings with porticoes. Always the main street of the city, due to its length, until 1882 it was known to the people of Turin as Contrà Dòira Gròssa (in Italian "Contrada di Dora Grossa"). Surrounded by eighteenth-century buildings, it is considered, with its 963 meters of length and known as "decumanus maximus", the second longest European pedestrian street, after rue Sainte-Catherine in Bordeaux.

The street acts as an ideal "watershed" between the streets that cross it, so streets on the same axis have different names on the north side compared to the south side and the respective house numbers start from the intersection with via Garibaldi.

location: Via Garibaldi

Volo Su, Christmas Lights

 Part of the Luci d'Artista, 'Volo Su' by artist Francesco CASORATI was installed along via Garibaldi.

The work "Volo su..." by Francesco Casorati has been part of the Luci d'Artista since 1998, it is a red thread that winds through the streets of Turin, suggesting a possible itinerary, the geometric silhouettes of fabulous birds hold the thread. The location in long and straight streets allows you to grasp the sense of perspective.

 

 

 Location: Via Garibaldi

 

 

 

Man Who Blows Two Fluts

He sits by the side of the street and blows on his two fluts at the same time, trying hard to get some music out, but usually there is no music, at least to my ears, but just some strange noises. Anyway, at least he tried, someone might award him for his effort.

Location: Via Garibaldi

Bottles Musician

Heard some beautiful music coming from via Garibaldi, later found out that there was this street musician performing music with these bottles.

Location: Via Garibaldi

Christmas Lights Are On

In November, the streets have already put up with the christmas lights, bringing in early the atmosphere of the season celebration.

Due to this year Turin holding the ATP ( Association of Tennis Professionals ) final, the city is flooded with tourists in the month of November, perhaps that's why the lights aer on early, also to please the tourists and to boost the morale of the locals.

The lights from the ' Luci d'Artista ' titled 'Noi' by artist Luigi Stoisa placed at via Garibaldi

Location : Via Garibaldi

Poster Vendor

There are many poster vendors in Torino, most of them are Africans. They display their posters on the ground and if you stopped to take a look at the posters, they will immediately approach you and try their best to convince you to buy one.

 

Often they setup their 'stand' under the arcade which ca be rather crowded in the evening and during the weekends, so when we walk past, we have to be very careful not to step onto the posters.

Lockdown The Fifty-First Day

51st day. Wednesday, a sunny day with lot of light.
Sunshine after the rain, feel good, maybe that was why more people were out on the street.
Maybe after two days of rain, the sun was back and gave a sense that everything will be fine finally....

On the way to the pharmacy, encountered quite a number of people walking around, many of them were without mask.

More people were at the bus stop and more people were walking their dogs.

At piazza IV Maggio, dogs owners were chatting with each other and while I was there a friendly dog came to greet, so what could I do, I patted her and she went back to her owner happily.
After 50 days of restriction and confinement, even dogs miss the human contact.

A guy without mask was struggling with the 5 dogs he brought out for a walk, is he a dog sitter?

It seems that more people are trying to go back to their normal lives regardless that the pandemia is not over yet.

Location : Via XX Settembre/Piazza IV Maggio/Via Garibaldi

Lockdown The Forty-Third Day

The 43rd day. It was raining.
Woke up late and had to go to the pharmacy before noon to retreat some medicines.
Turin is a beautiful city, elegant and not exaggerated. Even under the shadow of the pandemia, just added a sense of quieteness to her beauty.

The rain was fine but more abundant than anticipated, the streets were wet.

Stepped out of the pharmacy, walked towards the cathedral, the old man who was begging under the wall had gone. The door to the cathedral was tightly closed.
The holy church was left alone saoking under the rain 

Walked towards the piazza Castello where there were the two palaces. There was nobody walking around the piazza, except occasionally someone rode on a bicycles crossing the piazza.
Both magnificent palaces were just standing there under the rain with no more queue of people waiting in turn to admire them.

The streets were wet, the palaces were wet and the churches were wet....

Location : Via Pietro Micca/Duomo/Piazza Castello/Via Garibaldi

Lock Down Sixth Day

Sunday, the sixth day of the lock down, there was not the usual crowd coming to the center for breakfast and then a pleasant walk.

The street was just as empty as yesterday and the day before  and before....

Near to the main door of my block, a homeless guy was sitting there alone. No mask, just a pair of rubber gloves. A homeless guy sitting alone under the empty arcade.
Left him some coins, let hope it helps.

We are advised to stay home and go out as little as possible, but for the homeless like him, where should they go?

Remember last night, while was out for a short walk, the street was quiet and almost empty.
Then we saw an acquaintance sitting on the steps of the entrance to a restaurant. The restaurant was closed of course. So he was sitting there alone looking at the empty piazza.
He was almost pleasantly surprised to see us, then he asked us about the supermarket. We told him what he wanted to know and we greeted him and left.
He went back to the same spot and sat down again alone.
Does the current situation makes lonely people even more lonely?

Before lunch, saw a row of police cars passed by the street, perhaps it was the time to change shift.

 Location : Via Pietro Micca/via Garibaldi/via Mercanti

High Noon

The sun shining high and through via Garibaldi in the early winter noon provides a rather impressive light and shadows show.

People walking along side with their reflection on the bookshop windows under the sun

 

Under the high sun behind them, people appeared to be just like their shadows under their feets

Time of the day when your shadow looks bigger than you are.

Location : Via Garibaldi

Sir, Are You Looking At Me?

I love taking reflection especially on water, whenever there is a pond of water on the ground, I will bend down and try to see if the reflection of the surrounding is interesting to snap a photo.

In via Garibaldi, just after a rain, the reflection seemed interesting enough for a shot, so i did what I like to do. 

Didn't actually pay attention to the man standing there facing in my direction. Was he looking at me?

Us Without You

This christmas decoration installment is named 'Us' and it is a fixed feature every year in the center of Turin. Somehow, one of the couple decided to breakup before the new year, leaving the other one dangling there all by himself....

Location : Via Garibaldi

Lights Up

The Christmas season lights are up on the streets, many have been transferred away from the center, to areas where nobody goes, especially after dark. The remainings are trying hard to bring up the atmosphere of the season, initially in via Roma, the main street which directs people from the main train station to the center was not inteneded to place any lights, but after some protests, they found some lights and fixed them up the street.

Via Roma

 Via Carlo Alberto

Via Garibaldi

 

CDP August Theme Music

For the CDP August theme : Music, I have two photo, one from Singapore where an old chinese musician sat outside a Catholic church playing a traditional chinese music instrument and the other one from Turin where a small band was playing at via Garibaldi.

In both cases, however, their music seems to be not so much appreciated, are we too busy to stop ourselves to appreciate some music?

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Transformer On A Teddy

Just noticed something funny about this transformer at via Garibaldi....Poor Teddy

Pink Message

Someone has been busy painting pink onto items such as the Toret, the public phone in town.

This is a public phone at via San Dalmazzo, crossing via Garibaldi, it was painted pink....a secret message to send to the public?

Storm Arrival

Some days ago forecast predicted that a storm should be arriving, yet it didn't come. The temperature reaches 30 °C during the day, it is hot for spring, even though we are approaching summer now.
 Just few weeks ago, the weather was rainly, dark clouds would approached out of a sudden and covered up the sky of Turin center.

A rainy day at via Garibaldi....
P.S. The storm arrived yesterday.