Hotel Palazzo Dei Priori
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Central Italy
Since our last posting, we spent two more days lounging in the Cinque Terre. We ate the delicious "Pesto Fresco" that the region is famous for, munched on scrumptious and cheap focaccia bread, and enjoyed the view from our guest house's honor system wine bar. We melted in the heat on a "free beach" one day, literally inches from overweight, under …
Palio!
How to explain palio, the famous Sienese bareback horse race...Here is what we gathered from the whole event. We arrived in the usually-quiet city of Siena and climbed through neighborhoods (contradas), pasted with the colors and symbol of each and filled with excited tourists and residents. See, twice a year, the contradas of Siena fight it out …
The Italian Version of San Francisco
... beauty of these places and I know my memory will eventually fail me; therefore, a photo is the only solution.
The most memorable part of Siena in my opinion was the Duomo. It was....incredible. The inside blew my mind. The outside had amazing sculptures with incredible detail. (*I have yet to see the inside of the Duomo in Florence so I can't compare- however, the outside of the Italian Duomo is still amazingly beautiful*). ...
Wedding Day
... villa at the time! We have all felt strange in different areas of the villa as well. All in all, this was a very interesting part of our trip.
The wedding was held in Monteriggioni. The town is very picturesque and the town hall is very old, being built in the medieval ages. It really was quite hot but the wedding was really nice. ...