Hotel Vega Perugia

Back to the land of pay toilets. Don.t know why that bothers me so much but it does. It just doesn.t seem right. Anyway, we are now in Assisi. We got off the boat and it was raining, and then we had to take a detour to Assisi. the road was very narrow and hilly, It was a little tense for awhile. Saw St Francis ...

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Next we decided to explore the surrounding village before entering the crowds above. Perugia is a beautiful midieval village and very well preserved. Incorporated into this ancient setting are some very modern things like an underground moving walkway, taking you through the mazez below the pallazo. On this day, there were special booths set up for children and chocolate vendors.

Perugia, Umbria, Italy davefremland

Hi Everyone!

This past weekend was the Perugia Chocolate Festival…It was amazing! Basically, I was in heaven. It was a chocolate lover’s paradise. We took a bus from Florence and arrived in Perugia by mid morning. It was a bitter day which gave me a perfect excuse to have some out of this world hot chocolate and churros. A bunch of my friends and I had lunch at a ...

... br>We had a traditional dinner consisting of foods from that region. I had a pasta followed by the most sumptuous lamb. And Licia had the same. We took a stroll through the charming village and then drove back to our village for the night.

It was quite cold but with the fresh air and quiet, I got a great night's sleep.

... and everything. We had a great view to the surrounding hills.
Perugia is a quaint town with cobblestone streets. We got a bit turned around and ended up back in the same spot we started walking but eventually found our way around the town. Then we headed to Assisi. We walked through markets and saw numerous churches. The stones and narrow streets reminded me of Siena. We grabbed a milkshake and gelato and headed back to Perugia.

... Today the square is still a local meeting point for tourist and students alike.
The heart of the square belongs to Fontana Maggiore (Great Fountain) built between 1275 and 1278 by father and son team Nicola and Giovanni Pisano.
At the other end of the Piazza is the Cathedral of St Lorenzo with its pink façade, which was never truly completed. Work begun in 1345 and continued until 1587, however the door way was only built in the late 1700's.

... We didn’t imagine ourselves what portion of history we are going to meet up.

At 10 o’clock there was concert and then presentation of the Mayor Silvano Materazzi and introduction by Jack Arbib, we soon will come back to Signor Arbib, but first let me tell you who was Salomon Fiorentino: Born in Monte San Savino, district of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy in 1743 and died in Florence in 1815, writer and poet, wrote the “suicide of Neera” and various ...

... vendor invited us to sit down and we did thinking we would have a sample. Well it turned out to be a 4 course sampling. First it was the antipasto, then pizza, then gnocchi and risotto and to finish it off a sampling of 3 different desserts. Good thing there was plenty more walking to do to see the rest of the show. We arrived back in Orvieto about 6pm and everyone is getting caught up on homework, emails and the like. Hope all that have been following my blog are doing well. Ciao

Ciao! I can't believe it's Thursday already...this week has flown by! Yesterday was an exciting day here because the president of Italy came to visit! (I guess he really loves the chocolate...). There were lots of armed officers strolling the streets all day (2 on horseback!). A bunch of students and residents waited to watch him walk through the town (he got a pastry at my favorite pastry shop! haha). I managed to snap a couple of pictures... I'm happy to ...

So I left Tuscany and headed for Umbria on Wednesday May 9. I'm staying in a town called Perugia, which is a decent sized town with both a tourist and university vibe, since they get tourists during the day, but there are several universities here, Italian and international, so the place is bumpin' (yes, bumpin' is the technical term) at night. I'm pretty sure it's got stuff going on every night, because as I'm writing this, I've been here three nights (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) and ...