Maurizio Zanetti

With the restrictions dictated by Covid-19 it is impossible for now to travel. I console myself with walks around the house. And always having the iPhone at hand, I enjoy taking portraits of my neighbors' cats. Great models ...

The splendid Piazza delle Erbe, in the heart of Verona, at sunset. Desolately empty due to restrictions to fight Covid-19. Better times will come ...

The Crests of Monte Grolla, the Lessinia plateau, just over half an hour's drive from Verona. What is the summer is a prairie populated by grazing cows these days is beautifully covered by almost a meter of snow ...

The ancient walls of the Roman Theater wet from the rain. In the background "the beautiful Verona" with its Adige river and the church of Sant'Anastasia

The ancient defense walls surround Verona. Stratifications that start from the Roman era, cross that off the Scaligera lordship, arrive at the Austrian occupation. A few hundred meters from the crowded streets of the center, a splendid path crosses the Parco delle Mura.

Sacred and profane in Venice, Castello district, a few hundred meters from the Arsenale. An ancient capital and the old communist section coexist to the delight of the few tourists who pass through these streets of the Venice of the Venetians.

Going around the street with the smartphone in your hands or in any case at hand is always an opportunity to transform an image into a photograph. And if the walk takes place in the most beautiful city in the world, Venice, the only problem is to have a spare battery, because the opportunities to take a photo are endless. Here we are in the area of the Ostello di Santa Fosca, Cannaregio, once a convent of the Church of the Servants of Mary. Of which some walls remain around a splendid courtyard.

Christmas in Venice means being able to find a shared Christmas tree in a small square in the Castello district, far from the tourist flow. The photo dates back to the end of December 2018. A memory that the current pandemic makes even clearer. A wish that everything can be as before as soon as possible.

Contrada Cenise di Sotto, a group of beautifully restored ancient houses respecting what they were. With a small museum that reminds passers-by of the culture and work of those who lived in the past in those houses. To get there, take a small road that starts from Bosco Chiesanuova, about thirty kilometers from Verona. It is nice to go there in every season but it is with autumn that the colors literally leave you breathless.

The advantage of always having your smartphone with you is not in being reachable for a phone call but in being able to have a decent camera. So it can happen that you walk along the path along the walls of Verona at an hour when the setting sun gives lights and shadows on an old wall. And an emotion becomes photography.