Today December 8th, Italy celebrates the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This day is an Italian public holiday. The squares and streets transform into magical Christmas markets. A lovely start of the Christmas period. For instance at...
Saturday the 'Guide in Umbria' organised a guided tour in Assisi. This time we explored the Roman. A whole new world! Assisi became Roman on its own accord. The Romans did not need to conquer the town. It was Umbri (before the Romans took over, Umbria was inhabited by...
A rather sad picture ... made in Assisi. Mary behind bars (if she is Mary, I am not well introduced in this subject so I might well be wrong ...). On the up-side ... she is nicely standing in the spring sunlight.
Saturday the 'Guide in Umbria' had organised a guided tour of the Saint Francis Basilica in Assisi. The 'Guide in Umbria' are organising every third Saturday of the month a guided tour somewhere in Umbria. I am a huge fan of this group of guides. The Basilica of...
Some years ago on a beautiful day monks from a nearby monastry passed my house singing beautiful hymns. It was magic. Yesterday four monks came by to see the small church in front of our house. No singing this time. For a while they stood there like normal tourists...
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