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Soul of Italy – A Tribute from Steve McCurry

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

Rome, Italy
Sicily, Italy
Saint-Pierre Castle, Aosta Valley, Italy
Umbria, 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

Rome, Italy

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

Venice, Italy
Camino, Italy
Rome, Italy
Sicily, Italy

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

Sicily, Italy
Venice, Italy
Rome, Italy
Umbria, Italy

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

Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Perugia, Italy
Rome, Italy
Umbria, Italy

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

Assisi, Italy
Perugia, Italy
Naples, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy
Umbria, Italy

 

Umbria, Italy
Forte di Bard, Italy

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

Italy

 

Tuscany, Italy
Venice, Italy
Venice, Italy
Forte di Bard, Italy

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

Italy
Sicily, Italy
Rome, Italy
Camino, Italy
Italy

 

Umbria, Italy
Rome, Italy
Venice, Italy

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