Agriturismo Il Geranio Piccione
Strada Mannara, 2 Piccione, Perugia, Province of Perugia, Umbria, 06134, Italy
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Learning and then TLC
Today I had my first Italian class. It was four hours and it felt long!
Afterwards I wandered around Assisi and visited the San Rufino church and the Nun Spa - deluxe spa built on the ruins of a nunnery and roman baths.
The day wouldnt ...
Stop Two On The Day
... found plenty of other better reasons to enjoy the town.
Right from the get go it is another of the very hilly towns in this part of the country, you weave your way around a long path to where you finally get to the point where you can park your car, this is the good news and the bad news, the bad news is there is still a massive amount of climbing left to be done to reach the interesting parts of the community. Let's just say our calves were feeling the ...
First Stop Of The Day
... Pisa, and Siena later in the week so now I know what I need to know to plan accordingly.
Perugia is similar to Halifax in that it has a huge student population comprising a huge percentage of the population, one place I read said 30,000 so it has that vibe to it with lots of pubs etc. But of course the town is still nearly 2,000 years old so it cannot escape that midevil feel. You drive up a long twisting and turning road after leaving ...
That's an awful lot of traveling for one Saint!
... br>
He had a huge following of 5000 monks by the time he died and the Vatican soon realised that they needed to provide a place for all these monks and other assorted fans to make their pilgrimage to and so the Basilica was commissioned, and remains a Papal Church, part of the Vatican City, so as with St. Peter's in Rome, once you enter the boundaries of the Basilica & it's monastery, you are outside of Italy ...
Assisi
Right smack in the geographic center of Italy is a small hill town with a big reputation amongst the Catholic faithful. The town's name is Assisi and it is most famous as the birthplace of St. Francis of Assisi, who founded the religious order known as "Franciscans," which extols the virtues of living a simple non material life of poverty dedicated to God. I don’t know the actual ...


