This was an interesting article by its own merit (I think, anyways, I was interested for other reasons I am about to outline) but it really caught my eye as I live in the city of Guelph, and it...
This was an interesting article by its own merit (I think, anyways, I was interested for other reasons I am about to outline) but it really caught my eye as I live in the city of Guelph, and it was strange to see the name of my home town in a context I don't usually see it in. I was aware of Guelph was a form of The House of Welf but hadn't really put together that it was an Italian form of the name for that house. This is despite the heavy Italian presence in the city, and the fact that our sister city, La Castellana in Italy, is a stone's throw (30 or so km) from Florence, the city shown in most of the photos.
The idea of building a fireproof home so one could simply light the rest of the city on fire and then hunker down and wait out one's enemies is horrific, so I definitely understand the need to knock the tops off the towers. As ever, humans inhumanity caused us to lose something beautiful and interesting.
This was an interesting article by its own merit (I think, anyways, I was interested for other reasons I am about to outline) but it really caught my eye as I live in the city of Guelph, and it was strange to see the name of my home town in a context I don't usually see it in. I was aware of Guelph was a form of The House of Welf but hadn't really put together that it was an Italian form of the name for that house. This is despite the heavy Italian presence in the city, and the fact that our sister city, La Castellana in Italy, is a stone's throw (30 or so km) from Florence, the city shown in most of the photos.
The idea of building a fireproof home so one could simply light the rest of the city on fire and then hunker down and wait out one's enemies is horrific, so I definitely understand the need to knock the tops off the towers. As ever, humans inhumanity caused us to lose something beautiful and interesting.