This strange thing stands right on The Piazza, the nerve center of the town, where people meet and get drunk in the late night hours. The house is a metaphor of italy, and italian life-style for me. Chaos. Standing face to face to the beautifull Palazzo dei Priori the house is reflecting the same architectural elements, but it is messed up. The windows sliding behind the column, and that precise column is leaning inwards like the tower of Pisa. Did the builders run out of money? Did they keep for some obscure reason the front of a now long lost building because of some bizarre political decision? Were they just lazy to get the famous reneissance harmony? Well I don't know, but hell, it tastes like like a sweet bite from careless italian tranquility.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
The taste of imperfection
This strange thing stands right on The Piazza, the nerve center of the town, where people meet and get drunk in the late night hours. The house is a metaphor of italy, and italian life-style for me. Chaos. Standing face to face to the beautifull Palazzo dei Priori the house is reflecting the same architectural elements, but it is messed up. The windows sliding behind the column, and that precise column is leaning inwards like the tower of Pisa. Did the builders run out of money? Did they keep for some obscure reason the front of a now long lost building because of some bizarre political decision? Were they just lazy to get the famous reneissance harmony? Well I don't know, but hell, it tastes like like a sweet bite from careless italian tranquility.
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ReplyDeleteI want a post of the famous Y-flats of Tapolca though :).
They decided to cut the building in order to create a new street from Piazza Matteotti to Piazza 4 Novembre. That was a decision by Cardinal Pinelli of the Papal State, and Perugian people, who didnt like the street - representation of a lost independence - used to call that street "via Pinella", fooling the cardinal.
ReplyDeletei know it's an old post yet i feel obliged to leave a comment underneath this particular photo
ReplyDeletethanks for all the eyes-opening andras:)