17 Oct.08--Umbria, 1st try

Typical narrow street in Spoleto. After the art workshop in Venice, I spent a whole month in an apartment in Spoleto, in Umbria. Umbria is known as "the green heart of Italy." It has just as many hill towns as Tuscany but fewer vineyards and much more pine forest. Umbria is the only province in Italy that has no coastline. I prefer Umbria to Tuscany, maybe because, so far, it's less chic and therefore less tourist-encrusted. Consequently, for me, its medieval towns are more atmospheric.
Spoleto itself is medieval, as you'll see from the many narrow lanes and old buildings and the forbidding castle on top of the hill.
I think the population is about 30,000, but the town has at least 2 quite good museums, including a museum of modern and contemporary art.








I just can't get this cursor thing to work right . See the next post for the rest of the commentary.