Reading and Roaming
PARK SCENES Situated high up on the ramparts, Perugia has a small park with a view out over the buildings below and over the valley to the mountains. TOWN HALL In the historic center is an attractive town hall and museum with on one side sculptures of a griffin and a lion, both symbols of …
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DUOMO DI ORVIETO Yesterday we traveled from Rome to Perugia via Orvieto. It was a pretty ride and a combination of winding country roads and some time on the highway. We spent several hours in Orvieto, focusing mainly on the striking 14th century Duomo di Orvieto. This cathedral, unlike others of gray stone, has beautiful mosaics on the …
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MUSEO DELL’ARA PACIS Today we had another tour with guide Liz from yesterday and concentrated on examples of contemporary architecture in Rome. Rome as a city is not always open to contemporary architecture, and it is even hard for Italian architects like Renzo Piano, to get their projects funded and then built. Many building projects take years …
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This morning the Chief Penguin and I had a guided tour of some of the architecture of the Fascist period in Rome, ranging from a post office to train stations to the grand buildings of the EUR area. This is architecture from Benito Mussolini’s time in power, roughly 1922 to 1942. Our guide, Liz, a transplanted …
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