So we have this great little town about 25 miles from us....everyone has been telling us to check it out....so one day we set off on our new adventure.....Mustang Sally (our GPS) always gets us where we want to go...well sometimes we take the scenic route..but always seem to make it! well usually! We just put in the "town center" of whatever town we are looking for and she takes us to the town square...every town here has a square...that is generally very beautiful...
So on this particular day...that is what we did....we wound our way up to the town center...there was a nice church...nothing spectacular....so we decided to just go back down and see what else we could find......and as we turned the corner...this is what we saw!
We couldn't believe it.....it is the most beautiful cathedral we have seen so far....the legend goes..that the Orvieto People are so proud of this cathedral that when this same architect began building the cathedral here in Todi, he was using some of the same designs that he used on this cathedral...and because they didn't want any other cathedral to rival their own...they killed the architect...and to this day, the cathedral here in Italy is still unfinished after a certain point...you can see that the stone has been laid and is ready for the architect to engrave...but never finished....that's some competitive bunch of people huh?
There is also an underground to this town that we will be touring tomorrow when we return...everyone says that this is the best part of the town.......will send more pictures when I have them!
They also make one of the best white wines in the area...because grapes are grown the soil with lava rock...makes a great crisp wine...we bought a case! imagine that....
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