Our smiling young waiter Davide told us, “yes, still beautiful but the wildflower colors are fading now….” as we looked out at the expansive flowering Piano Grande (“Great Plain”) below us. As…
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We’re now happy to welcome guests to our two-bedroom, two-bath apartment, Casa dell’Arco. See the welcoming charm of this rural apartment here. …and I enjoyed taking a few shots before the arrival…
I want you to experience the Umbria I have come to know and love in over forty years here on the land, just outside Assisi. Live Umbria, “Italy’s green heart,” from the…
Even though I’ve been speaking Italian for more than half my life, words still flee me; at times, I feel that my perception of the exact translation of a word is imprecise.…
Pino has to head to Valtopina often these days as his team is doing earthquake restoration work on the nearby tiny hamlet, Giove. There’s only one restaurant right in Valtopina’s centro –…
Just 30 km east of Perugia, skirt the mountain village, Valtopina (population, about 1400). Take the curvy road winding around hillsides of olive groves, to the tiny hamlet Giove perched on the…
Every year for Corpus Domini (60 days after Easter), over seventy stunning floral tapestries carpet piazza and winding alleyways of medieval hilltown gem, Spello, fruit of months of flower-gathering and then all-night…
I was about twelve years old when our family made a trip to the late 18th-c Spanish Franciscan mission church San Juan Capistrano in California. On a recent Abruzzo jaunt, Pino and…
I remember the year that a tour guest summed up our walk through Spello on Corpus Cristi (60 days after Easter) this way: “Seeing the Infiorate should be on the cover of…
I’ve been told by more than one that you can’t truly feel the passione for the Ceri unless you join in carrying one of the three mammoth pyramidical structures, called “candlesticks.” Said…