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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
... s a stunning and imposing monument but its most spectacular feature is its Gothic facade, which features glittering mosaics, marble relief carvings, and bright painted figures and glows golden in the sunlight. The interior of the cathedral is, honestly, nothing to write home about, but for one exception, the Chapel of San Brizio. Mostly painted by Luca Signorelli in the early 1500s, the entire room is frescoed with scenes from the New ...
On the road again!
We were on the road early and and even managed a two hour stop over in Siena. That stop, while Ross enjoyed seeing the famous Il Campo for the first time, just reinforced how happy we were that we didn't stay in this busy, loud, extremely touristy and somewhat scruffy city. Little Volterra and now Montepulciano have such a nice atmosphere in comparison. We had a ...
New Friends and a Great Meal
... us still wanting white wine so we order a half liter of the house white wine for Carol. I think there is almost a half liter of very good red wine in my glass. Next comes our two pasta dishes, umbrichelli with spinach, pancetta, and cheese and the umbrichelli with truffles. The truffle dish is loaded with shaved truffles on top. They are both incredible and we can't believe how much truffles they put on top of the pasta and in the butter and olive oil sauce. This is bad as now ...
We Stay in Orvieto
We get up to catch the early bus to Bagnoregio, but Carol is still not feeling good so we decide to go tomorrow and try to tour a few sites in town today. Back to bed we go and wake back up around 1000. Her stomach issues have settled down for now, so we head out to see how she does. We walk over near the Duomo and sign up for an 1115 underground Orvieto Tour. While we wait, we visit the city museum which is right across the piazza. It contains art from ...
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