Bastioni di Saint Remy

This was one of those 'difficult to print' shots...there was a wide dynamic range, from the shaded stall in the foreground to the light stonework of the impressive entrance to the Bastion of St Remy in the background.  Some fill-in flash would have helped (perhaps!) but all I could do was hold the lower half of the print back a bit under the enlarger in order to try to keep some detail in the stall:

Bastion of St Remy, Cagliari.  OM4ti/24mm Zuiko; FP4+ on Foma 133.

The Bastion is hard to miss, since it dominates the whole city.  Alas I was unable to scale the steps - well, I think I could have got up OK, but it was the coming back down that worried me.  There were no handrails, so one trip and there would have been bits of an Ulsterman all over the pavement below and that would not have been a pretty sight, believe me.  There was supposed to be a lift/elevator and we did actually find it up the road a bit but it was all locked up, which was disappointing.

The Bastion as it stands today isn't that old - it was built in a classic style around 1900, although it occupies the site of much older bastions that were built by the Spanish (What were they doing here, I wonder?) in the 16th Century.  It took a bit of a battering during the second world war from the Allies (as did much of Cagliari, apparently) but it has since been rebuilt.  

The street that I was standing in when I took the shot marks the start of the main drag in the city.  It houses most of the main shops/boutiques and is the place to be seen for the daily promenade, which seemed to start about 7pm.  So after the Sardinian afternoon siesta, it's get your glad-rags on, head up to the Via Giuseppe Manno to see and be seen, dander up and down for an hour and then sit at your chosen restaurant for the evening meal.  Sounds good to me!