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Friday, March 30, 2007

Historical Entry, Castello Di Miramare




The most beautiflu caste in Trieste in my opinion is the Catello di Miramare. As you can see in photo on top it is surruonded by water. In the castle there lived Maximilian and his wife Charlotte. He discoverd the bay of Grignano while sailing, he looking for some refuge from a great storm. He started constructing it in 1856 it got iits name from awsome sea views. He was living in the castle while the workers were constucting it and he never got to see his gougeous castle. He went to Mexico and there he died... his wife Charlotte died shortly afterwards. Now the castle is a museum for the public. You can go and see exacly were he lived. The castle has beautiful botanic gardens were there are bars in the summer and there is the natural sea water reserve in its surrondings. There are no swimmers or boats -nothing- swimming or passing by it. The fish there are not kept but they can come in or out whenver the want. If you want to know some more about Maximilian here it is: His full name is Maximilian of Hanseburg, he bacame the emperor of Mexico were he died. His garden is 22 achers long and was designed by Archdue Maximilian. On the cliff were the Castle was built on there was no agriculture but now there are various tropical plants. The furniture in the castle is definitly one of a kind and of the time period. The castle is very attractive all time of year.

Monday, March 05, 2007

Trieste, Comune


In Trieste the most famous Piazza is the "Piazza dell' Unità d'Italia" and in it there is the town hall. My dad works there and I think it is one of the most beautiful buildings in all Trieste. The mayor works there and his name is Roberto Dipiazza and he has been the mayor since 2001 and was elected mayor twice. He is born on February 1, 1953 and he first became the mayor of Muggia and then the mayor of Trieste. The town has many old buildings that have been preserved very well. The town hall looks down on all the piazza and the Mediterranean Sea it is one of the most beautiful views of the city. As you can see in this picture it has a gourgeous structure and a beautiful shape the picture was taken in the winter at Christmas time. It is situated on the gorgeous "Piaza dell'Unità d'Italia" which has some of the most important building of the city. Like the town hall and one of the most important hotels of the city of Trieste, it is called "The Duchi da Osta" and it serves amazing food and has great services. In the piazza there is also at least 2 bars one of them is also a restaurant which in the summer has set lots of tables out outside. From what i have told you about the piazza and about the town hall which in itlaian you say: comune, you could make out that Trieste is one town to see! If you ever come by Venice it is worth the trip to stop here!269

Synopsis 9, Feud, Lady Grace

Lady Grace notices that one of the Ladies in waiting is sick and she was about to get married. Lady Sarah needs to try on some of the Queen's clothes to see if they fit and pose for a painting. While she is there Grace finds out that she has a passion for painting and that one of the paints is deadly and that is the yellow one. It has a poison called orpiment. One of the other girl's father got severely injured by Carmina's parents she is called Lady Horsely. Carmina wasn't getting any better and she actually might die and Grace is trying to give her some coal because she thinks that someone might have poisoned her with the orpiment. Lady Horsely was very sad about her father and might have wanted revenge and that was getting back at Carmina because that would hurt the father even more. So she sprinkled more orpiment over some sugared apricots and tried to feed them to Carmina for the last time when the queen came in and stopped the whole thing and sent Lady Horsely to jail.

Synopsis 8, Betrayal, Lady Grace

Lady Grace strikes again and this time Lady Sarah has run away with a man and his name is Captain Drake one of the 2 men that were fighting over her when they went to another one of the Queen's castle's the other man's name was Captain Derby. But there was one thing wrong with the letter written by Lady Sarah to the Queen saying that she ran away and those were the G's she always writes them with a big curl and these were normal. So Lady Grace decides to follow her onto the boat on which she is about to get married. So her best friend Masou comes with her and they cut her hair off. they can't seem to find lady Sarah any were and they think that Captain Drake has stolen her and kept her captive until the wedding. But as soon as they notice that she is not on this ship they go to Captain Drake and he tells them that Captain Derby must have stolen her so they go over to his ship and they save Lady Sarah and bring her home to the queen without a scratch.