Every house within the medieval walls of Ventimiglia Alta has a number, neatly inscribed on a small rectangle of white marble. It looks as though they’ve been installed quite recently. Deciding which entrances are, or could be, someone’s front door must have been quite a challenge. Old buildings have been subdivided many times over the centuries. Open, arched verandas on once grand buildings have been filled in. Tiny dwellings in back alleys have been combined or downgraded into garages for motorbikes. A numbered entrance may lead to a stairway with front doors on several floors above but that’s another matter.
Just because there’s a number by the door it doesn’t mean there’s someone living there, but there might be, one day.
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April 7, 2016 at 8:48 am
I love the arch and door combinations. Plus the antiquity.
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April 7, 2016 at 7:46 pm
Wow I am in awe. Some of these places look downright ancient. Wonderful post!
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April 7, 2016 at 8:49 pm
The oldest walls date from the 10th century and there have been additions and alterations ever since!
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April 7, 2016 at 8:37 pm
Guess, they didn’t want to do with the old, and renovated it for modern times, so the buildings still could be used. It has the feeling of France or Italy – but in which country is this? Great and romantic captures by the way:)
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April 7, 2016 at 8:44 pm
Just over the border into Italy, though it’s been in France at times in its history!
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April 7, 2016 at 9:07 pm
I’ve been in that area. We stayed in Lucca (Italy), but went one day to Nice, France to visit Chagall’s museum – breathtaking! But on the way back we got hopelessly lost (4 hrs.!) because of a break up on one of the high ways back. But that’s the risk of traveling -I don’t regret it!
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April 7, 2016 at 8:58 pm
They’re fabulous. I love those arches and half arches and quarter arches and ………….. well, all of them, really.
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