Captain’s log, Supplemental – Ligurian Summer 2024

January 9, 2025 Leonardo Ambasciano

A quick post to add another batch of (poorly edited) pics to my ongoing exploration of Liguria.

Enjoy!

ALL PHOTOS BY LEONARDO AMBASCIANO, 2024 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED OTHERWISE.

BONUS FEATURE!

Some additional photos from the MAU (Museo d’Arte Urbana di Torino; Museum of Urban Art, Turin) in Borgo Campidoglio, Turin, further up in Northeastern Italy. As far as I can gather from the official website, this is the first bottom-up, permanent, open-air, contemporary art museum located within an urban center in Italy. What a remarkable experience: you gotta see it to believe it.

ALL PHOTOS BY LEONARDO AMBASCIANO, 2024 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED OTHERWISE.

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This post was updated on 11 January 2025.

Ligurian Dreams

May 26, 2023 Leonardo Ambasciano

The gods had a dream, and the dream’s name was Liguria. Dolceacqua (Liguria, Italy). 2023 Leonardo Ambasciano (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

When I was young, there was always something missing in me.

Everywhere I went, I felt like I didn’t belong, like I couldn’t belong. My father left his seaside hometown in Liguria for Turin, a huge industrial city at the foothills of the Alps, in the 1970s, and from there he went abroad in the 1980s. When I was three years old my family decided to come back to Turin but, by that time, my father had already started globetrotting for work. We started spending give or take half a year in Turin and half a year in Liguria, some time in my father’s seaside town and some time in my mother’s mountain village.

The Riviera Strikes Back

April 20, 2022 Leonardo Ambasciano

Liguria is not a place on Earth. It’s a state of mind. Portofino (Liguria, Italy). 2022 Leonardo Ambasciano (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

I had a dream, and its name was Tigullio. Another trip to Liguria, another astonishing visual travelogue.

My Riviera

December 5, 2021 Leonardo Ambasciano

Going to the seaside? Or trekking through mountains? You don’t have to choose here, you can have both! The Church of S. Anna ai Monti with the Gallinara Island in the background, as seen from Via Julia Augusta, between Albenga and Alassio (Liguria, Italy). 2021 Leonardo Ambasciano (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

This is the visual story of how an Autumn road trip through the Italian region where my family comes from helped me clear my mind after experiencing the most hellish situation at home.

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