The end of one story and the beginning of another one.
Abandoned cottages that emerge like moles from the ground, without life and without a future.
On the road to Pai, after eaten a little bit more than we needed in a restaurant a few kilometers from Chiang Mai, inevitably and without warning we feel the immediate need to ask our driver to leave us on the roadside.
Two other huge blocks of cement rise up in the city of Montegrotto. Looking at the horizon, they question why the little beings of skin and bones no longer inhabit their cavities…
I walked in a desert. And I cried, “Ah, God, take me from this place!” A voice said, “it is not desert”. I cried, well, but…. The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.” A voice said, “it is no desert”.
Have you ever had a strange dream to visit a popular city where half of the hotels will be abandoned? What a strange dream, which of course you never had. But such city really exists, and you can find it in Italy.
Furnished bedrooms with bathrooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and a tennis court. This is what is awaits you at the hotel “La Padovanelle”, which used to be one of the best hotels in the city and now stands abandoned.
On the slope of Šišenska hill, above Celovška cesta and near Tivoli Hall, stands what remains of the Hotel Bellevue. Built in 1909 in Secession style, the hotel once matched the grandeur of Ljubljana’s centre. In 2016, when I visited, it was already a ruin — broken windows, stripped interiors, graffiti covering walls that had […]
