Posts Tagged "prague"

Old Town, Historic Center, Altstadt, Vanhakaupunki, Gammelstaden, Citta Vecchia, Centro Storico, Casco Antiguo or whatever you may call it, is the area of a city where its history, its values and its identity are kept alive and where are usually located the medieval remains of that city and some of the main tourist attractions. Imagine Prague without the Old Town Square or Florence deprived of its historic center and you’ll almost run out of reasons to visit these beautiful cities. It comes somehow natural for Europe- the old continent, to host most of those privileged cities but there are moreover some others around the world that proudly worth to be mentioned. When I am visiting a city I usually start with its oldest part, that way I manage to capture the...

I am not an artist… but Prague made me one! It was a cloudy afternoon when I was walking thru the ancient Nerudova Street, feeling like marching in history with every step, every building, every tiny cubic stone. Prague was extremely familiar but still so strange. My mind was getting empty so all this beauty could pass in. Franz Kafka said once that “Prague never lets you go… this dear little mother has sharp claws” and he was right, there is something unusual about Prague that will not let you forget, that will always attract you like a magnet.  There’s definitely something addictive in its beauty and so much emotion in its esoteric presence. The Romantic It’s almost impossible to describe such a city like Prague when you don’t have enough...

During my travels I’ve seen so many beautiful places that I almost felt overwhelmed and sometimes even lost in my imagination and I have always tried to steal a particle from each beauty in order to build mine. Maybe I failed but I managed to shape ideas that hallowed my soul and I think that is what life is about. Beauty has so many forms, so many colors and so many stages and it can be ruthless, incontestable, young, unusual, stunning, gloomy, natural, overwhelming or everlasting but, no matter which shape will take, beauty it’s meant to touch your soul or your mind at least for a moment, to inspire you and to make you become a better person, an artist and sometimes … to make you fall in love. Unusual beauty I have discovered the unusual beauty when I...

I was unable to see The morning thru your eyes, To fit the time in a painting And lock him in one of your museums.   I was unable to cover Your dusty beauty In a few antiquities that I bought when I left   I was unable to keep your past Over my present For just one more moment, I was unable to bring a piece of you Home, with me.   I was unable to print Your overwhelming beauty Over my retina And make it last forever.   Now, I’m just unable To remove you from my memories And bring you to life.