Driving about the countryside with friends...
Laurie and Norma treated us to a drive through the countryside of Umbria for coffee and spectacular views. We sipped and conversed in the quaint town of Foligno (since 8th century BC).
It was a brief escape but Steve and I plan to return to explore its Cathedral, Churches and Palazzi. It is a town, like most in Italy, rich in history. An inscription on the façade of the Palazzo Orfini (built in 1507) commemorates the printing in April 1472 of Dante's Divine Comedy here by a former pupil of Gutenberg. This was the first book printed in the Italian language. Pretty incredible.
We also meandered along La Strada del Sagrantino (the wine road). The Sagrantino vine is one of the oldest in Umbria and Fall is revealing itself through these vines. We saw beautiful scenes of hillsides of colorful "quilts". We stopped, briefly, to watch the harvest of olives. It is all so what I think of when I think of Italy.
It was a brief escape but Steve and I plan to return to explore its Cathedral, Churches and Palazzi. It is a town, like most in Italy, rich in history. An inscription on the façade of the Palazzo Orfini (built in 1507) commemorates the printing in April 1472 of Dante's Divine Comedy here by a former pupil of Gutenberg. This was the first book printed in the Italian language. Pretty incredible.
We also meandered along La Strada del Sagrantino (the wine road). The Sagrantino vine is one of the oldest in Umbria and Fall is revealing itself through these vines. We saw beautiful scenes of hillsides of colorful "quilts". We stopped, briefly, to watch the harvest of olives. It is all so what I think of when I think of Italy.
La vita è un sogno.
Italian to English Translation:
Life is but a dream.
Italian to English Translation:
Life is but a dream.
2 comments:
Looks beautiful...and cold! What's the temp right now? How cool will it get for you this winter?
Those grapes look delicious. Did you know my dad is now growing grapes to make wine out of?
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So Italian and so ..... Temecula! We went to an olive festival put on by Temecula Olive Oil Company a few weekends ago and picked olives just like that. Well, we didn't get ladders... FYI, Jim started a new blog, mostly about food. He talkes about the olive festival. It's gumbitarian.blogspot.com. You have to go to the very first entry to have that name explained! The Olive Harvest entry is on Oct. 9th. Enjoying you adventures.
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