Thanks Markus. It was a fascinating place. A satellite view indicates that the "old town" on the hillside remains intact but the surroundings are vastly more built up than 52 years ago. A chunk of the bay/harbor is taken up with a large marina, and the breach is mostly filled with small structuress that I can't identify.
If so, these are umbrellas for rent and private ones, The commercial ones are easily recognizable by their geometric patterns. And you see as well that the noncommercial parts of the beach have been restricted to a bare minimum. Money makes the beach go around, I'd say.
Btw.: charter.net blocks my emails to you - strange...
Markus, just caught up with this comment and yes, that's another view of the beach—I was using Apple Maps. I wondered if it was something like that but I've never seen such a concentration. Then again, it's over fifty years and I'm not a beach person in the first place—have hardly been to a beach here in the US in all that time. It does look as though the beach has been completely commercialized. Have a look at this gallery where a couple of the shots show what it looked like in 1970:
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What a fine image, Carl! Composition, shapes, and the perfect, attentive, center of attention...
Thanks Markus. It was a fascinating place. A satellite view indicates that the "old town" on the hillside remains intact but the surroundings are vastly more built up than 52 years ago. A chunk of the bay/harbor is taken up with a large marina, and the breach is mostly filled with small structuress that I can't identify.
Carl, are these the beach structures you're speaking about?
https://www.google.com/maps/place/04029+Sperlonga,+Latina,+Italien/@41.2550449,13.4377896,217m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x13252e6f5665f9a5:0xda4af15056bd6270!8m2!3d41.2636741!4d13.4271414
If so, these are umbrellas for rent and private ones, The commercial ones are easily recognizable by their geometric patterns. And you see as well that the noncommercial parts of the beach have been restricted to a bare minimum. Money makes the beach go around, I'd say.
Btw.: charter.net blocks my emails to you - strange...
Markus, just caught up with this comment and yes, that's another view of the beach—I was using Apple Maps. I wondered if it was something like that but I've never seen such a concentration. Then again, it's over fifty years and I'm not a beach person in the first place—have hardly been to a beach here in the US in all that time. It does look as though the beach has been completely commercialized. Have a look at this gallery where a couple of the shots show what it looked like in 1970:
http://www.carlweese.com/Sperlonga1970/index.html
--Carl
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