Soul of Italy – A Tribute from Steve McCurry

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Post date April 14, 2020
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The best part about Italy is the people. The hospitality of the Italian people is without rival.
There’s no friendlier place on the planet.
– Steve McCurry

*Saint-Pierre Castle, Aosta Valley, Italy*

I find other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history.
Just everything comes together there.
– Frances Mayes

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.
– Rebecca Solnit

A man who has not been to Italy is always
conscious of an inferiority.
– Samuel Johnson

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
– Giuseppe Verdi

We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Italy is a dream that keeps returning
for the rest of your life.
– Anna Akhmatova

Open my heart and you will see,
‘Graved inside of it, Italy.
– Robert Browning

Nothing in the world that you ever heard of Venice, is equal to the magnificent and stupendous reality.
– Charles Dickens
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By Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than thirty years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and countless exhibitions around the world to his name.

To read more about Steve go to www.stevemccurry.com/bio

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98 replies on “Soul of Italy – A Tribute from Steve McCurry”

Thanks a lot Steve yo have inspired us all a lot, to launch a re-birth for our tourism sector, we have linked your amazing tribute to linkedin and our facebook page, with thousands of appreciations. Nothing gives a better translation into images of what we do taking travelers through italy and giving them the opportunity to experience the sentiment and the real soul or our country. Feelings, emotions, passion …..
Thank you
Nadia
Italy my Way

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Il meglio dell’Italia che così tanto amo… stupende foto, come sempre, Steve! Sei un “grande” 🙂 hugs claudine

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Very nice!

Nice!

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Beautiful…the essense of this Country;)😍😍

Out…stand…ing!!!

Nice!

Thank you Steve for these amazing pics and overwhelming words.
I used to live in 5 different countries ( UK as well ) and I can say Italy is the most beautiful place to live in the world
( although I love other places too ).

Happy bithday from Italy…. ❤️

fantastic photos and excellent typically Italian colors … you can’t do better

Thank you so much, Steve!
When you will come back to Italy, there is always a place to stay, for you, for free: http://www.casaburani.com

Thank you for this great tribute!

Wonderful photos! I would love to visit Italy one day…

Thank you! your photos excite and warm my heart

Than you Steve for your tribute to my country. I had to cancel my trip to Italy last February to see my family. I was heartbroken. Your beautiful pictures reminds me how fantastic my country is.

Grazie. Torna a trovarci. Ti aspettiamo.

Amazing country, stunning shots. Pure class. Thank you, Maestro!

So beautiful. Such love and respect. Your pictures are from the heart and of the heart. They brought tears to my eyes.

Home sweet home… Thank you Steve… 🥰

Thanks Steve for your beautiful tribute to our country, that I adore so much. You caught the spirit of being Italian and we appreciate that you a fan of this land.

Thank you from all Italians Steve. You are a great soul.

Thank you!!! What a treat for me to see pictures of a place I love so much. If there is such a thing as a second life, my first had to have been in Italy. I feel such an affinity with the people, the art, THE FOOD.

beautiful pictures. Do you solely go to these places and take pictures and edit them?

Thanks Steve for your amazing work. I am from Umbria, as you said you have captured the soul of Italy: art, culture, family and love. I am pleased that people from other countries love Italy. Italy will always welcome everyone. Stay safe, Arianna

Thank you for capturing the beauty and humanity that pulls at my heart…..Italy!

Thank you for capturing the beauty and humanity that pulls my heart to Italy!

Thank you so much for the tribute to my country and the wonderful pictures that embody so deeply our kind of life and souls. Yes, we’ll win and I hope the same for people in the whole world.

Grazie mille per la vostra ampia mostra dedicata al nostro paese.
I was deeply touched by your photos, full of love and maestry together to show how much you love the people and this country. Thank you.

I agree with Frances Mayes. Everything she said about Italy is why I love it too. Thank you for these wonderful pictures x

Thanks Steve,
Your art in always a pleasure
Ilario

Grazie di cuore!

[…] Steve McCurry è un fotografo molto famoso che nel suo portfolio può contare su tantissimi meravigliosi scatti dell’Italia e di chi la abita ed è da qui che parte il suo omaggio: il video, pubblicato sulla sua pagina ufficiale Facebook, è una raccolta di questi scatti, fotografie che puntano a cogliere lo spirito, le tradizioni e la bellezza del nostro paese. Il flusso delle fotografie ogni tanto è interrotto per lasciare spazio a citazioni che testimoniano l’amore del fotografo americano per l’Italia. Il fotografo ha condiviso i suoi scatti sul blog personale. […]

Thanks Steve
I think you are a nice person

beautiful and very inspiring as always 🙂

The only thing I can say is thank you. From my heart!

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I have had the pleasure to know you in person in Lucca, several years ago. You are a splendid person as much as a wonderful photographer: thanks so much Steve for this fabulous and touching tribute to my country!

I am Italian, thanks for your tribute to Italy, I’m crying, thanks so much

Sono orgogliosa di essere Italiana, e lo sono ancora di più quando vedo che tante persone apprezzano la nostra cultura! Grazie.

Andrà tutto bene. Quando sarà finito questo brutto periodo torna a trovarci. Sarai il benvenuto. Grazie.

Un paese meraviglioso! Dovremmo apprezzarlo di più…

Thank you Steve. Bellissime

Thanks for this wonderful tribute to my Italy

Thanks for this wonderful tribute to my Italy.

Meraviglioso! Grazie mille!

Thanks for yur tribute. You are the One

grazie Steve, sei nei nostri cuori

Viva l’Italia, viva gli italiani!
Leonardo, Raffaello, Michelangelo, Botticelli hanno catturato gli stessi colori, i volti, i paesaggi.

Thanks for your tribute.
You are rhe One

Love my Country. Thanks Steve.

Beautiful photos of a beautiful country

Exciting photos of our beautiful Italy. Thanks Steve

Thank you, Steve. Just wonderful as always. Perfect moments of life to get locked in the memory.

Grazie Steve… you can catch the inner details of people.. but we are everywhere, not only in Italy and the I am sure you can portrait us as we are even if met in NY, Paris or elsewhere..

Thank you for sharing these amazing pics!

Occhi pieni di verità, grazie

Steve work is real Masterpiece as always. Pleasure to watch captured moments. Perfect.

Thank you for this beauty! I lived in Liguria for three years and absolutely adore the Italian people, language, architecture and cuisine. I’ve been doing daily posts with microstories about life in Italy. Beauty wins!

Wonderful. Many thanks.

no one, not even the stars, would be able to speak as well about my Italy as you did.

Grazie! Bellissime foto!

These pictures are amazing!!! Mia dolce Italia!!!

Bellissima Italia, grazie mille, Rosella, Nuova Zelanda

I am one of the last venetian remain. Your photo is amazing but you’d visit it now. It’s an unimmaginable , incredible absolutely unfogetble think. Thank you so much

Pax Romana Grazie

Thank you Steve, we Italians deeply appreciate it. Hope you will come to visit Italy again, as soon as possible!

Thanks Steve, we wait for you in Turin!

Stunningly beautiful Steve

I can never resist the beauty of your work. Reblogging to my readers at sister site Poetic Justice

Thank you Steve! I love seeing my country wirh your eyes. Beautiful job as always ❤️

Some of these scenes from Italy are simply amazing! This is definitely one of my favourite McCurry blogs!

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Beautiful pics!

Simplesmente maravilhoso! Um conjunto de imagens que acendem uma chama em nossa alma

This post brought a tear to my eye, friend. How lovely! And how I do hope to visit Italy again. 🕊

Beyond words ….

Amazing, captured of the real Italian heart!

I’m Mennonite, but I’ve often felt that I should have been born into an Italian family. I’d love to go to Italy one day. I’ll keep dreaming through your photos. Thank you.

Sara Jane, go, just go to Italy. If your heart feels it, and your mind embraces it, take one small step, and then another, and you’ll see how doors will open.