Andreas Manessinger

7297 - Piacenza LVI

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Piacenza still has a substantial part of its walls intact. It’s the morning after our arrival.

7296 - Piacenza LV

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

And then there is only the faint afterglow. Seen from the roof terrace of our hotel. A glass of wine might have been involved.

7295 - Piacenza LIV

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Love that precious fading light.

7294 - Piacenza LIII

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I had to go back for one more shot.

7293 - Piacenza LII

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When we left the church, we already had wonderful evening light.

7292 - Piacenza LI

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We’re up from the crypt now an before we leave, we look up to the vault. Ultra-wide makes the architecture look decidedly alien 😁

7291 - Piacenza L

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It’s beyond my imagination why you’d baptize a child in a dark crypt.

7290 - Piacenza XLIX

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Weird lighting differences. I’m not sure whether the blue is daylight or from the upper church. What I’m sure of is that it was overall pretty yellow down there 😁

7289 - Piacenza XLVIII

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lots of pillars. They carry the weight of the main floor.

7288 - Piacenza XLVII

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Seen with the distortions from pointing a 7 mm lens slightly down, the crypt looks spooky.

7287 - Piacenza XLVI

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This kind of main churches of important cities not only tends to have impressive side altars, they often have impressive crypts as well. Down we go.

7286 - Piacenza XLV

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A beautiful gothic side altar.

7285 - Piacenza XLIV

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The pattern on the floor is also perfect foreground interest, so I took one more image.

7284 - Piacenza XLIII

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Funny illusion caused by the ultra-wide angle lens. These perfectly concentric circles are perfectly flat, but here, especially with the parallel lines, it looks like the top of a dome.

7283 - Piacenza XLII

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

And now we’re in Cattedrale Santa Maria Assunta e Santa Giustina. The back part of the church is empty. Those giant churches don’t get filled by believers anymore. Well, maybe in Poland, but not in Italy and not in Austria. Tourists have replaced them.

7282 - Piacenza XLI

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Finally, at the back of the church. I probably should have used the 7-14. Again the light discouraged me and I went away with a distorted shot that I try to save in post. Could have been worse 😁

7281 - Piacenza XL

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Number 58, a detail of the same scene.

7280 - Piacenza XXXIX

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On our way to the back of the church. Late afternoon, strong shadows encroaching.

7279 - Piacenza XXXVIII

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The same square, this time low from out of the shadow. The church, a mountain of stone.

7278 - Piacenza XXXVII

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We tried to walk around and see what the church looks like from the right side.

7277 - Piacenza XXXVI

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I told you we would see the Cattedrale Santa Maria Assunta e Santa Giustina again, and that’s where we are now. It’s big, and although I am at 7mm, I have to leave some perspective distortion uncorrected.

7276 - Piacenza XXXV

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Here we are with the last image of the Basilica di Sant’Antonino.

7275 - Piacenza XXXIV

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a more decorative composition.

7274 - Piacenza XXXIII

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Look at those small towerlets. It’s pretty rare. I can’t remember a church like this anywhere.

7273 - Piacenza XXXII

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Outside now. This is still Sant’Antonino.