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Car hire for 3 days over
Left siena with noddy, our car hire for 3days, fiat panda, just fitting in our bags. Headed off to chianti sculpture park, approx 30large pieces placed in woodland of visual delight. Pieces by artists from all countries and other pieces in owners premises which was an old pottery furnace. This building was incredible and the views, wow. Then to volterra, hill town of course, what else in tuscany. Stayed the night just outside wall area ...
A Picture Perfect Town
... the Orvieto train station, you have to take the funicular to get into the city, which is a pretty awesome cable car that takes you straight up the steep slope and under the city walls and drops you off in the historic part of the city. Orvieto's first funicular was built in 1888 and used until 1970 when they began constructing this modern one, which opened in 1990.
Orvieto is dominated by its cathedral, the Duomo di Orvieto, begun in ...
This 1 time when we drove the Italian countryside
... of our cousin's Vincenzo & Erti we mapped out a few possible options and decided we would stop when we were hungry or when we were drawn to stop in a particular town.
The Italian countryside was gorgeous. Green and hilly and unlike anything I've ever seen. We knew we wanted to stop and pick up some meats, cheeses and bread to have as snacks along the drive and we all felt ...
New Friends and a Great Meal
... distance to St. Patrick's Well. The well is 175 feet deep and 45 feet wide and was also ordered built by the Pope after he fled here when Rome was sacked in 1527. It took 10 years to complete and has a double helix design which allowed one way traffic both up and down. Donkeys and people could walk down, cross a bridge at the bottom, and come up, without bumping into each other. It is really quite a feat of engineering and of course we walk all the way down and back up ...
We Stay in Orvieto
... and other cathedrals in the area. It is nice and fills in the time void we had so our wait is only a few minutes for the tour. The tour is in English, yet we seem to be the only Americans in the group. There are French, German, and Italians, who obviously all speak English. We descend slightly outside the town walls and enter the first cave. There are over a thousand caves underneath the city, all man made over the centuries. The caves, most of ...
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