We left Milan via rental car and braved the Italian autostrade, deciding to stop in Padua on our way to Trieste. Padua, part of a larger metropolitan area with Venice and Treviso, is a city that punches above its weight in terms of contributions to science and art. The University of Padua, established in 1222,…

Beirut is a city of layers, a city in flux on timescales of both months and millennia, whose rich and turbulent history can be read from its buildings. Archaeological ruins in Lebanon — that still stand in pockets, gardens, and underneath raised shopping malls — reveal cultural changes. Neanderthals, Phoenicians, Romans, Ottomans, and Crusaders have…

Milan, located in the region of Lombardy, is the most populous urban area in Italy. It is a city of architectural contrast, the new juxtaposed with the old. A major draw is the  Duomo di Milano, or the Milan Cathedral, which took over 600 years to build, and spans Gothic to Renaissance styles. On the same…

The photographs in this album are of building façades in the Flemish cities of Brussels, Leuven, and Ghent. In May of 2012 I attended the 39th International Symposium on Archaeometry at the University of Leuven in Leuven, Belgium. I spent one day in the capital city of Brussels taking in the Grote Markt, or Grand…

This album is a series of views of the Boston skyline taken during a  walk along the Charles River on the Cambridge side, including a crossing of the Longfellow, or “salt-and-pepper shaker” bridge. Boston, Massachusetts