Day 22 (4/26) Spoleto

Sunny, blue sky, no clouds. We set out to Spoleto. There is not much to say about Spoleto that hasn’t been said about other cities. Old (240BC), built on a hill with a historical past and very picturesque. Oh, it did have a very long escalator to take you to the fortress at the top. Actually it was about 10 separate long escalators. From the fortress, we walked down through the city stopping at various shops along the way. Surprisingly, prices in Spoleto were much higher than in Sienna. We had gelato and coffee in the piazza at the bottom and then stopped at a beautiful Romanesque basilica of San Salvatore just outside of city walls. Next to the basilica was the town cemetery with magnificent graves of local counts and countesses. There were bouquets of fresh flowers on many of the graves. On the way back we stopped in Fossato bccause Reni and Lucy hadn’t seen it, walked through the sleepy town and had coffee in the only open establishment (a bar) where men were starting to gather for theit afternoon activities (cards and drinks). Then we had our farewell dinner before the girls’ trip back home ….