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Today no recipes, we start from where we were ( Washington) at a time in Philly.

from Union Station in Washington to the station in Philadelphia, that I was not particularly impressed, Philadelphia, Philly said confidently, has a financial business district with some skyscrapers to a handful of miles. from the station, while the rest of the city is on a human scale and the visit very well walk also discovering areas where the rails do not speak ....... of course there are also other transport, However, not having them used I can not tell. To visit may be enough for two to three days depending on whether you plan to visit museums as well as the city and its historical sites.

among the skyscrapers sometimes trapped construction of a more modest who showed off their wheels .......

e se non intrappolano altre costruzioni, fanno da specchio a tutto quel che li circonda.......

da boulevard J.F.Kennedy si vede in lontananza una torre che svetta con una grande statua proprio a fare da puntale......

la torre è la torre dell'orologio e fa parte del complesso del municipio ispirato  nella sua architettura all'architettura del Louvre......

l'orologio che sta sotto alla statua ha delle dimensioni decisamente rilevanti, e supera di gran lunga its rival London Big Ben, in fact, the diameter is 8 feet, the minute hand is 4.5 m. and the hour of 3.8 m.

the person who has deserved to be placed so high is Mr. William Penn who was the founder of Pennsylvania, the state that has as its capital Philadelphia. W. Penn in 1681 by the English King had full powers to govern the time those territories colonized by England and thought of the name by combining the name Penn of Pennsylvania, to honor his father, Sylvania of the kind of wooded land , hence the name and then Pennsylvania.


He measures because you do not miss the fact is cm. it has a height of 13 meters and is the world's tallest sculpture on top of a building.
Until 1987, it was the height limit of the other buildings, but then got the better of the skyscrapers!

a sculpture in honor of Benjamin Franklin .........

Next to city hall there is a building that looks like a cathedral, it is actually a Masonic temple.

but we get the miles in an area called the most historic states, viewed from the visitor center , where he collects the ticket is free, but indicates the time of the visit to the historic site .......... .. that block red and white, in fact ......

is part of a site consists of a set of similar buildings and a park, then the politicians here have come together to give life to the United States we know today ...... .

site is called the Independence National Historical .....

begin to ........ enter the hall where the congress was approved documents to the U.S. Constitution is here, a little 'what is now the capitol which is Washington ... of very different sizes. .....

a ranger will guide and will begin their exhibition illustrating this picture ........ which is the hall of congress .........

where delegates from 13 colonies July 4th, 1776 approved and signed the declaration of independence ......... and this is the room from the truth ........

always in this room, in 1777, it was agreed the design of the flag of the United States;

but here we enter the old city hall where he met the first U.S. Supreme Court at the dawn of the nation .....

and here it is from the truth .........

with details on the table ...... I must say that although it is not our history, and accustomed to opulence throughout American quel che fanno, emoziona e sorprende un po'  camminare nelle stanze abbastanza modeste  dove è nata la grande e direi anche esagerata nella sua manifestazione di potenza, nazione  degli stati uniti che ora conosciamo.........

anche i primi 5 presidenti hanno vissuto qui nei piani superiori, dato che Philadelphia è stata anche  la prima capitale dal 1790 al 1800...

e queste sono due delle stanze che ospitavano il presidente di turno.........

la via in cui si trovano questi edifici è la chestnut street che conduce .......al porto fluviale dove il grande fiume Delaware è attraversato dal Franklin bridge.........

tornando indietro dal porto e girando in market street si arriva......

al primo ufficio postale............che è attiguo alla casa di Benjamin Franklin............

della quale però di originale è rimasto solo.....

l'ingresso al cortile, che conduce ad un museo sotterraneo dove hanno raccolto furniture and objects that belonged to Franklin ....

such as these laws for 4 musicians ........( the other photos you save, the light has not allowed a girlfriend)

In Philadelphia There are two important markets, one is completely covered and the Reading Terminal Market, the other is the italian open air market, we'll see ....

if you go there between Monday and Friday, you'll find the Amish, a community that lives in the greater Pennsylvania and recognize the fact that cover all equal and in an almost monastic style, the women always wear the white cap if they are married, if they are single black dress and gray males dressed in dark .... and once you are married, grow a beard ... .. photographers will not like them, so it is best to do so by pretending to frame something else .......

sell their products made, for the most part there at the time, lead a life of simplicity and humility which translated basically means that they move in a carriage, did not have electricity for farmers most and the greatest sin seems to be the pride, the surplus beyond what is essential for living is abolished in practice ....... definitely living out of this world ..... here preparing the delicious pretzel ... more news here

but the slices of packaged cakes were really just a continuous temptation .... better leave ....

market as well as sell products both fresh, has already made up, there are also the gastronomy and not only American but from different countries, so you can go around the world tasting the Chinese noodles, sausages Mexican rather than French cheeses and of course the Italian pizza .........

and also the bulk pickles ....

honeycomb containing honey ......

that if the watermelon roll, dressed in yellow ...... who knows whether it is natural or transgenic .....

ears at will ........

they came to this stall smelled a strange odor was wondering what could be .... il coriandolo ........ 

ciliegie bianche e ciliegie rosse.......

pomodorini a pera rossi e gialli.....

lego per giocare prima ....... caramelle per mangiare poi

qui vi sono tutte le spezie o quasi, del  mondo.......mai viste tutte in una volta.....

then who decides to lend him a lustratina shoes ..........

and those who decide to take this opportunity to grab a bite .... we must also two .....

but now we go a bit 'a stroll to look around aimlessly .....

noticed on my return, that the number of photos I took of the stairs I was particularly attracted to iron ........

and even the red-brick Victorian houses .............

?.... and those little doors on the sidewalk where someone suddenly comes out .... I remember the films of Charlie Chaplin ........

just outside the main bustle, lie much quieter streets that are sure to be in a big city .........

and even homes not only to Victorian style but of stone, surely the first time ...... 900

and what about this lock hook ...... I have not figured out how they succeeded ........

we encounter in our walk of the large murals that represent moments of life .... .....

sometimes encounters among friends .......

sometimes represent work in progress .......

crafts and workshops .....

or the harvest .......

or portraits of prominent people (if I remember correctly this should be a worthy mayor)

These murals come from a project started in 1984 to combat graffiti, an art teacher thought it was best to channel these energies belonging to graffiti, once met, and seeing that they were often the real talent he invited them to dedicate themselves to the mural, the project was obviously well organized choosing Czech walls of apartment blocks where paint scenes of theme, and here are the portraits, crafts, daily life scenes and more. They are scattered around the city and reached the number of 3000, the project continues today, but if you want to know more read here .

and brings me to the Italian market that runs along the street ......... namely the 9 street, south of City .........

is a mixture of ethnicities ..... over the centuries, from seventeenth century the Dutch arrived in the area, and the nineteenth century. Jews and Italians began to arrive .......

then added in more recent African and Asian market ........... actually, it winds through the streets so it is like overflowing from the various shops they line the sides .........

obviously the names of stores or restaurants Italians are often as it is the predominant ethnic group of American generations ..... although ...

when we went it was early in the morning and there was no need to have good taste after breakfast, but I would be curious to try something in order to assess the quality .........

in these parts the technology still has not had much success ........

and after this tour we take the salute of a mayor who needless to say named Frank Rizzo and I think it is the same as the murals apparently loved the city so as to dedicate a sculpture, and leave Philly, the Big Apple is waiting for us .........