“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
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.”
– Giuseppe Verdi, composer
“Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.”
– Anna Akhmatova, poet
“What is the fatal charm of Italy?
What do we find there that can be found nowhere else?
I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.”
– Erica Jong, writer
“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a
building after seeing Italy.”
– Fanny Burney, novelist
“We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A man who has not been in Italy, i always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what is expected
a man should see.”
– Samuel Johnson, writer and poet
“Open my heart and you will see,
‘Graved inside of it, Italy.”
– Robert Browning
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28 replies on “La Dolce Vita”
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Sensational pictures. We were blessed to have spent 2 weeks there in October of 2017. My favorite city! Thank you
What sets you apart from all other photographers is catching those expressions on people faces. Wonderfull photos.
I wonder why Naples is missing in all this pictures. If you did not visit it yet, then I suggest you to fly there as soon as you can, then you will know what were you missing….
I was in Naples for several weeks recently. Stay tuned for my Naples work.
Grazie per le tue meravigliose testimonianze visive
Thank you for sharing so much beauty
I agree with Erica Jong’s thought…”I believe it is a certain permission to be human…”
without being ashamed to show it. Thank you!
The most beautiful and intens pictures from the greatest, grazie maestro! 🙏👌🙏
Thank you so much for these wonderful photos. I love my country despite its contradictions. Capturing the soul of this land and its people as you did with your splendid images is a reason and an incentive for me to continue photographing every city, beach, hill, mountain, lake, or island of our splendid Italy.
Grazie
Thank you very much Steve McCurry your authoritative and notable tribute to my Country leaves me speechless. Italy is ” Patrimonio dell’Umanità ” World Heritage. Grazie mille
It is a great honor that an artist like you loves our beautiful country so much. Your photos are able to capture the infinite souls, the multiple facets that make Italy so varied and unique. Thank you also for your wonderful shots, for the places, the faces and all the souls you tell through your big heart and sensivity.
Beautiful response…..
Totalmente de acuerdo. La gente es el motor de cada lugar. Imágenes totalmente elocuentes que dan fiel testimonio de lo que se puede apreciar en Italia.
Thank you Steve ! Proud to be Italian !!
Beautiful images, so colorful!
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Thank y so much
Such beautiful photos. Thank you for sharing
Ah, laSerenissima
You should try Dominican, Ecuadorian, Colombian or Peruvian hospitality. But anyway, Italy is a really enjoyable place to visit. Powerful pictures, master.
Always the greatest photos representing the wonderful world and remind us how lucky we are to live on it.
Great set pf photos! I now really want to go to Italy!
Stunning pictures!! amazingly photographed.If someone wants to see the world he should first visit Italy.
Stunning pictures!! amazingly photographed.If someone want to see the world the should first visit Italy.
Thank you for transporting me with your marvelous images, Steve.
breathtaking