Up…Up…Up to Urbino

Sunday, November 15th

The road to Urbino is a very long winding road with hundreds of switchbacks. It’s a lot of fun with our manual transmission (not according to Marsha and Lidna though). It’s also a little intimidating with groups of motorcycles flying past on the curves and BMWs pressing on your tail as they are trying to see just how much their suspensions can take. Combine all this with a complete pea-soup fog for the first half of the trip can sap your (and everone’s) energy for the day. But the fog lifted and the rest of the ride opened the beautiful views and blue skies into Urbino.

We parked on the lowest level of the town and took a very, very steep and long street up to the piazza that faces the back of the Ducal Palace. Continue reading

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Shopping the Citta di Castello and More….

Before we start today’s recap, I realized that we didn’t show you the spectacular inside of the Brancacci Chapel, and a closeup of one of the artist’s portrait in a painting:

Fillipino Lippi

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Back to Florence (After 20 Years)

Friday, November 13th

Woke up extra early to drive to the train station in Arezzo to make the 9:52 to Florence. It’s only about an hour trip. Driving to Florence would have been fun, but getting into the city and parking near the center is impossible. The train station though is perfectly located, dead-center of all sightseeing.

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