Thursday Doors 2/12/21: Sant’Angelo di Roccalvecce

Many of you will remember this town with fairy-tale murals from my recent public art series. And if you don’t, this is an invitation. There are some doors that I’ve got saved.

This is a small but surprisingly vibrant town in Lazio north of Rome between Viterbo and Orvieto.

As I was choosing which photos of murals to post, I paid special attention to the doors – as I do – and saved several in a special folder. Here they are now. Most of these haven’t been posted yet.

There are six parts in this series, posted for PPAC, Photographing Public Art Challenge, run by Cee – who is hosting the next one tomorrow – and Marsha.

If you haven’t seen any posts from here yet and wish to see more murals, and they are quite wonderful, here is post #1 and here post #6 with the list of all the fairy-tales depicted on the walls of Sant’Angelo.

The initiative to create a fairy-tale town started in 2017 with the first 12 murals. They have crossed number 40 by now and new ones are being added all the time. But frankly, the doors are quite fascinating even on their own.

I was here at the end of September for the first time with my uncle and bestia and was only sorry (for the first time) that I didn’t have a bunch of kids. Welcome!

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  One of the first doors you see upon parking.

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  The wall makes the doors.

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  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Alice.

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  A grand old door uncle.

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  I like this mouse hole shape.

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  The Snow White’s mirror scene with one door on sale and one under the stairs.

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  A bit tired from trying to be closed all this time.

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  With growth above and below.

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  Murals are created by various artists. This one is by Cecilia Tacconi.

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  Around the World in 80 Days.

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  Bestia is hot. We were thirsty.

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  Underneath the Tin Soldier.

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  I love this one, the colour and the age and the style.

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  Must be the church.

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  Sleeping Beauty and some pencils from an unknown story on the right.

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  A refurbished house face.

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  The Fox and the Grapes. I love it how they used the door.

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  That brown on yellow with flowers makes it friendly.

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  This one looks safe and sturdy.

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  A part of the Fairies of Avalon mural for the end.

For Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities

This day in my blogging history

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  2015: Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
  —George Bernard Shaw

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  2018: Nostalgia

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  For all the hands
  little and big
  that ran out of time.

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  For the fingers
  that pressed all the right buttons
  and wrapped around
  the loved ones
  when the tune started,
  or got wrapped around
  the little one
  and the music was over.

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  For the times
  that got out of hand.