Friday, August 19, 2011

Civita and Orvieto

On Rick Steve's recommendation, we went to a tiny hilltop (more like cliff-side) town called Civita. It is often called a dying city because most of it's residents are quite old and the population is literally dying off.

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The town is surrounded by very steep cliffs and the only way to access it is to walk across an elevated bridge.


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This women sits in front of her house everyday and charges visitors a small fee to enjoy the view from her backyard.


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Near Civita is Orvieto. My favorite thing in this town is the famous striped church.


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A tribute to Kimmy. She will know why.


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Not to be outdone by us, Al and Ryan had some good poses too.


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And one good shot to round out the photo shoot.


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This restaurant was across the piazza from the church. I would have loved to eat there, not sure why we didn't.


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Apparently this worn down lion was very exciting.

1 comment:

Alissa said...

This was the town where we ended up asking the librarian where to eat, and ate at a great little hole in the wall. We probably thought that one looked touristy.