THE LAST DAYS BY THE BOOT

Sadly we left Rome with a train to Assisi, to hitchhike in Italy sometimes is difficult; we were thinking how lucky we were at the beginning in Italy; the last days, we spent many hours on the road, and nothing…

Assisi was known thanks to the monk San Francisco de Assisi; here is his monastery and the Basilica which keeps his grave.
Assisi is a small medieval village on the top of a hill; it also has, like many cities in Italy, a lot of churches and a big castle guarding the village on the highest point.

Near Assisi it is Perugia, we were lucky and we arrived by hitchhike with a monk of San Francisco. Perugia is similar Assisi, but bigger and more modern, there are some nice places like the San Pietro church o the Comun square. Part of the city is still walled with big gates to access it. Thanks to Katiusa of HC we could know well all the city.

In Toscana we just visited two cities, the first one, Firenze, disappoint us a little, but it’s probably because always hearing about Firenze and we will expect more. Anyway there are such a beautiful places, like the Duomo, the Pitti Palace and the David. A part of that we brought with us the memories of Patrizia and her family with their special life style, like a “hippie family”

The other city of Toscana is Pisa, a world know city for its inclined tower, such a big business that the people make with the tower… The most important is on the main square, where the Duomo and its tower are. The tower was build well, the problem was the floor, it wasn’t good, and then started to slope the tower, at the moment is hold by counterweight, if not it will fall down. It was impressive the slope, we never thought that it is too much.

On the way to Geneva we across beautiful mountainous places near La Specia; we didn’t stop in the villages of Cinque Terra, although the people told us is nice place, anyway the seashore here is similar to ours in Cantabria.

Geneva is so long city which is extend by the seashore, its centre is all heaped because between the mountains and the sea there is a little space. Something curious in this city is that the monuments have not been respected, many of them were overthrow to build new houses; and which are still there, are not good preserved.

We left Italy by the north side passing through the high picks of Alps; the last night in this country we spent it near a river in Domodossola, between a really beautiful paradise of mountains and green valleys.

Following there is an Italy map with our way, which totally defer of the original one.