Leaves in Autumn

Walking in

Foreste Casentinesi Park

Between Tuscany and Romagna there is an isle of silence: the Foreste Casentinesi Park.

Here you can find the silence of nature, in the beautiful colours of October...

...and the silence of friars, monks and hermits, in the suggestive scenery of La Verna Sanctuary and Camaldoli Hermitage.

The last one is the escutcheon of Camaldoli Congregation: two doves - symbol of hermitic and cenobitic tradition - drinking in the same chalice - symbol of the Church - under the only star (God).

Buon Cammino!



Etruscans

Walking around Cortona

in the steps of Etruscans

A plunge in the history, when  Rome was only just a little village.

In Tuscany, the old Etruria, we can see yet the "last will" of Etruscans: their tombs, like:

1) Tanella of Pitagora.

2) Melone di Camucia

3) Tumuli del Sodo

But also a beautiful uncommon example of city gate: la Porta Bifora

And the majestic stones of the walls

Well... Welcome in Cortona!

Francigena in Umbria...

Landscapes from Valnerina, south Umbria, along the Francigena Way.

In a beautiful valley context, the medieval suggestions of wonderful hamlets.

Here is Arrone...  

 

... and here Casteldilago...

...all perched on the rocks over the bucolic Nera river



Isole

A volte nel nostro cammino s'incontrano isole che illuminano e riscaldano più di qualunque apparente terraferma.