Castel Sant’Angelo is one of my favourite spots in Rome – a beautiful fortress with a fascinating history that dominates this stretch of the Tiber in the city. The stretch on the bridge leading up to Castel Sant’Angelo, however, is a real tourist trap, lined with buskers, artists, trinket sellers and selfie-taking tourists sometimes in […]
Take a stroll with us through Piazza Navona, one of Rome’s most famous locations, a bustling and important public space for centuries. As well as sculptural marvels like Bernini’s Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, the piazza has been a hugely important architectural and artistic space since the 1600s. And as you might expect from such a […]
It’s time to celebrate, with fireworks sounds from New Year’s Eve. Join us for a huge fireworks display held in Prato della Valle in Padova, Italy – the largest square in Italy, and one of the largest in Europe. It’s midnight on New Year’s Eve 2018, and we enjoy an extensive display of various fireworks, […]
Il Pianista FuoriPosto is a travelling pianist, who takes his grand piano all over the Veneto region in Italy, popping up in surprising places to perform for the public. He doesn’t advertise where or when he’ll appear, so it’s a stroke of fortune to come across him and hear his wonderful music, as we did […]
Today we’re visiting one of the most famous sporting venues in Europe, the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy. This recording was taken during Inter Milan vs. Lazio in December 2017, a freezing night inside this incredible impressive “cathedral of football”, close to an 80,000 sellout. The most striking sonic aspect is the coordination of […]
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"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of [the city] as it is today should contain all [the city's] past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the bags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Grand Prix winner and Coup de Coeur winner, Académie Charles Cros
