And now I am in a beautiful city, in a truly beautiful city, Genoa. I walk on marble, everything is marble: the stairways, the balconies, and palaces. The palaces are so close they almost touch and from the street, one can see noble ceilings, all richly painted and gilded...
Here I open my eyes wide on everything, innocently, simply ...'
Gustave Flaubert.
There are streets like this in Genova ...
Via XX Settembre is a street that always makes me want to stop and attempt to capture something of the light.
It's still beautiful even when it rains.
