Much Better than a Welcome Mat
Posted by Moose on January 22nd, 2008. Filed under: Travel.The Italians do many things better than Americans – dangerous vehicles, skinny shoes, mozzarella. But it’s their singular devotion to awesome building adornment that makes this small, boot-shape country great. Romans, Shomans. Take me to the door knockers. Observe:
Fierce mustache that makes me wish I could grow facial hair.
Scare the hell out of small children. And me.
Tie your horse to a rodent bursting out of a brick wall.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
HILARIOUS! Did you take these photos? What city? I recall some doozies like this in Venice, but I don’t think I ever got lost in neighborhoods in Rome enough to find anything remotely great in the way of the door knocker. Ah… makes me long for travel again.
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I did take these, with my very own two (shaky) hands. I think all of these were in Rome, though one of them may have been in San Gimignano. I’ve been wanting to travel lately too. I’m trying to appease the travel bug by posting lots of old travel photos.
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
They also do STINK really well.
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
It’s like LABYRINTH!!!!!
January 22nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Oh, Labyrinth. How I loved that movie. And David Bowie with his flowing locks and tight pants.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I think I would be too frightened to knock at any of these doors. Depending on the inhabitents, they might view that as a success! They are well-wrought though, and so detailed! Just scary. (Is the little man in the first door knocker actually BITING the hoop? Really?)
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Yikes!
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Yeah, seriously, the second one? Made me wince a little. But still quite awesome.
I love the third one. I could never put my finger on what our building was missing. Until now.
January 23rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Ack! That second one just reminded me of a scene out of Pan’s Labyrinth. Or the David Bowie Labyrinth, come to think of it, as a reader above already noted (and which I purchased at Target for $6.50 this weekend! Go 80′s!).
January 24th, 2008 at 9:10 am
I so want that middle knocker. It’s like Halloween ALL YEAR ROUND, and what’s better than that? Basically nothing.
December 31st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
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