The Italian Voice

Today I want to start to write about my own life, just because I think that the facts which happen to me could make you understand something more about Italians, but also because I am glad to share everything with my readers, I would like to know you all, so this is the best way to let you know me better.

I am currently waiting to move to another region because of my boyfriend’s job; at the beginning I refused the idea, but now I am starting to be very curious to start my new life, to discover the new city and to get new friends.

I do not visit the new place so often, because I have to travel by train and I realized that it is not so cheap each time; I spend about Euro 23 for a round-trip ticket from Castel San Pietro Terme (province of Bologna) to Novi Ligure (province of Alessandria), so I avoid to see my boyfriend once a week, looking forward to cohabit again.

Novi Ligure is in the bottom-right corner of the highlighted region
(map taken from Wikipedia)

Novi Ligure is a city of the region of low Piedmont (North-Western Italy), it is situated in a favourable area just between the three big city of Turin, Milan and Genoa. Its name reminds of the region Liguria and it is not a fortuity, because in the past it belonged politically to that territory for a long time and only in 1859 was annexed to the province of Alessandria and so also to Piedmont.

I have been to Novi Ligure in the last week of May for a couple of days and I took the chance to take some shots of the city downtown and of the surroundings of our new flat; I must admit I am starting to appreciate it, even if it is not my own hometown and if it is quite different from my own area, but I think that my region of Emilia-Romagna should learn some lessons from Piedmont, especially about the eco-friendly solutions.

Here there are my latest shots, enjoy!

Via Girardengo, main street downtown

Church of the Collegiata of Santa Maria Maggiore

Porch of entrance of the city hall

Via Roma and Church of St Peter from afar

Church of St Anthony from Padua, managed by friars

I plan on taking more photos during my next trip, so stay tuned and you will start to discover Novi Ligure together with me.
Thanks for visiting my blog, have a nice Sunday and see you soon!