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iandsmith Says: I had been desperate for a room. Hotels a few kilometres up the road had been closed for the off season. Unfortunately, that's when I tend to travel.So it was that when I hit the main road again after Arquata del Tronto I noticed a supermarket and, in desperation rather than...
A place to live, a place to die
iandsmith Says: The dearth of young people in the area in every village I went to was noticeable. Those tilling the soil or those walking the street were invariably in the older age bracket. The contrast to the vibrant cities was pronounced. It almost seemed that the villages are set aside...
iandsmith Says: The difficulty of visiting these little churches situated in hamlets in a country with whose language you are not conversant is that information is hard to gather. In fact, without time and a translator, well nigh impossible. I could read the date on the door of this duomo...
iandsmith Says: The wonder of the night before had dissipated somewhat in the warm glow of the following day. The sunlight put a different village into view. Many more aspects of it became apparent and a few people were moving around this agricultural based community.Getting to the base of...
iandsmith Says: S. Asunta, that's about what it translates to from the near heiroglyphics that the friendly old Italian resident scribbled in my notepad. This is the church whose door so impressed me on the intro and whose light was shining in my Arquata del Tronto pages.The church of the...
iandsmith Says: Just as I was leaving Paggese I couldn't help but notice this colourful creation behind a roadside fence.It was part of a child minding centre, seemingly disused if the height of the grass was any guide.Still, the sculpture and the colourful blossom became even more...
iandsmith Says: A seemingly simple yet ornately edged altar piece inside the Paggese church.
iandsmith Says: Without my prolonged chat with the chef I would never have heard about this old castle, once on the road to ruin, now converted to a "if-you-have-to-ask-you-can't-afford-it" accommodation house.It's off the main road by about 5 kms, above Paggese and isolated with a cemetary...
iandsmith Says: An ever-present sound while I was visiting Quintodecimo was the splash of water. It seemed stroboscopic, it was difficult to tell its origins. The reason was that there was more than one torrent and side streams met the Fiume Tronto here on its seabound journey.There's...
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A seemingly simple yet ornately edged altar piece inside the Paggese church.
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This isn't a chapter so much about Aquasanta the spa town because, although I spent the night there, I spent the day in the areas around the town. Thus it is that Quintodecimo, a village not on VT's...
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