Vincenzo A. Pistorio - Old City and Independence Park

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Title: Preamble to the United States Constitution
Location: Philadelphia - Pennsylvania
Country: United States
Image Date: 02/05/2008
Image Height: 2304 px
Image Width: 3456 px
Artist: Vincenzo A. Pistorio
Camera Model: Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Shooting Data: 1/50 s at F 18,00 with 100 ISO
Exposure Program: Aperture priority
Exposure Compensation: EV 0,00
Metering Mode: Partial
Focal Lenght: 23,00 mm
Icc Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)
File Code: _MG_8622.TIF
Keywords: america, north america, united states, pennsylvania, philadelphia, independence, constitution, historic district, old city, horizontal
Comment: Philly, as its inhabitants call Philadelphia, is a nice and trendy city, It was very nice to spend a couple of days around the city, discovering a piece of American history. I have read several times the US Constitution and each time I discovered what could mean more than two centuries of democracy, a true federal system and a institutional architecture that has produced probably the best example of representative democracy in the world. The celebration of the Constitution is very important and I really envy americans because of it. It is not only patriotism: it is also the consciousness that democracy is something to be defended for its values, as the new 44th US President Barack Obama said on his inaugural speech. And just this consciousness I miss in Italy.