The lake's balcony

Castiglione del Lago

 

   In Italy there is a group of Commons and hamlets called "I Borghi più Belli d'Italia" (the most beautiful villages of Italy). Castiglione del Lago is one of these.

   Placed on a crag over the Trasimeno Lake, in Umbria, having a lot of  remains of Etruscans and Roman age, it's characterized by a pentagonal castle of the XIII century, built by Frederick II of Svevia.

I think that we don't need too much words to explain the place... Come and see!

This is one of the gates of the village, through Della Corgna Palace.

Another city gate

And this is the covered escape route from Della Corgna Palace to the castle

 

 

The Roman bridge

Once upon a time...

After the little Montedoglio dam collapse, more than one year ago,...

...the Tiber river has dug up the suggestive ruins of a Roman bridge.
It was part of Ariminensis, the Roman road between Arezzo - in Tuscany - and Rimini, in Romagna, on the Adriatic Sea.

The bridge and the river get back together again... It seems like a beautiful love story!

White Umbria

Normally it's green, but now...

The "Green hearth of Italy" is how we call Umbria, a region in Central Italy, but in the last days it has changed its colour.

This is a view of High Tiber Valley in these days, with the big Montedoglio Dam.

Here we are on Alpe di Catenaia (m 1414), on the border between Umbria and Tuscany.

Here we are, with snow shoes, on the other side of the Valley, between Umbria and Marche.

And here, toward Bocca Trabaria, a common experience in our woods: two fallow deers