In mid-March, the Umbrian city of Foligno becomes an open market – il Mercato Europeo – as over 80 vendors offer cuilinary goodness and artisan creations from their booths lining the Foligno streets. Various countries, too – Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Austria, France, Poland, Argentina, Spain among others – offered their specialties, both artisanal and culinary.…
On a recent visit to friends near Pisa, Pino and I decided to head off the usual autostrada route for our return trip to Assisi. We had a full-day ahead of us so we headed south into the Tuscan countryside towards Volterra for our return trip, passing splendid Tuscan hill towns….. . ….surveying vineyards and…
After over a year’s work by skilled young fresco restoration experts in Assisi’s stunning Basilica di San Francesco, the late 13th-c. fresco Cimabue fresco la Maesta’ has returned to splendor: The unveiling in mid-February took place in late morning after a two-hour presentation by head of the Basilica restoration team, Maestro Sergio Fusetti ((on the…