2012 here we are!!!

Wow, my first post for 2012. Where have I been, its 1 February today? Well after a wonderful Christmas back in my homeland South Africa with family and friends (where the most activity lifting my hand to lift my glass of wine) I am back in Milan and preparing for exams,  a thesis proposal,  a trip to Berlin this weekend to go to this exhibition that the dear Carlo Spiga  is apart of. I hope I can take pictures of some of it.  I am a little bit scared though, they say it is going to -10 degrees. So while we knee deep in winter here, I will relish for a few minutes the summer days on South western coast of South Africa.  Buon Anno everybody!!!!

Su Nuraxi, Barumini, Sardinia

 

The nuraghi are the archeological traces of the ancient cultures that lived in Sardinia from about 1500 B.C.  These rock towers looks like a heap of rocks from afar, but once up close it is pretty amazing to see the detail in them, how they were built, how many of them have several floors withe niches. I am quite in awe how they built with such giant stones. The one in the picture is close to Barumini and probably one of the most famous nuraghe in Sardinia. They suspect that this nurahge was used as a symbol of power or as a sacred space. 

December detour - Sardinia countryside