Your visit to Northern Italy must include this beautiful area
Why Do We Love to Explore?
Humans are inquisitive creatures. We question and ponder, poke and prod. We find a certain romance in the exploration of ancient history. We question what secrets lurk in the shadow of medieval castles. As an American, I acknowledge a particular fascination with walking among fragments of the past. Americans don’t have 14th-century villas and 12th-century castles; we have only a few hundred years of architectural history.
But don’t most humans, no matter where they call home, possess a curiosity about past civilizations? I believe there is something cathartic about walking in the footsteps of past generations and looking at man-made ruins. Perhaps it’s a reminder of both our own physical mortality and of the monolithic achievements of mankind.
“Ozymandias”
I met a traveller from an antique land who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear:
