A big torch festival in a small village
[ Nov.2017 ] On the next day we visited a small village called Fara Filiorum Petri which was about 30 minutes drive to the south inland from the seaside Pescara where we stayed in Abruzzo…
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The special room in the cathedral
[ Nov.2017 ] The Cathedral in Chieti, the town in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, stands magnificently in the Piazza San Giustino. It was originally built in the 9th century and then rebuilt in…
Visiting churches in Chieti
[ Nov.2017 ] We visited not only ancient ruins, but also some churches built more recently in Chieti in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy. The first one was the Church of Holy Trinity built…
Archaeological museums in Chieti
[ Nov.2017 ] When we were in Chieti in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, our friends arranged to have a guide and an interpreter. We went to the Archaeological Museum located in a lovely…
To Chieti on the hill
[ Nov. 2017 ] On the second day of our visit to Abruzzo in the middle of Italy, we went to a town called Chieti which is about 13 km inland from Pescara. Our visit…
Stayed in a B&B and had great seafood
[ Nov.2017 ] We stayed in a B&B called Maison Fleurie in Pescara, a seaside town in Abruzzo in the middle of Italy. B&B’s in England are usually bigger but ordinary residential houses where the…
To Pescara via Rome
[ Nov.2017 ] We went to Pescara, a seaside town on the Adriatic Sea in the middle of Italy. Pescara is in Abruzzo. We have already been to many places in Italy, but it was…
Fallen soldiers in Solferino
[ Oct.2017 ] Solferino, where we visited from Milan in Italy for one day, is famous for a battle. On 24th of June, 1859, during the war between Austria and the allied forces of Italy…
Meat dish in Solferino
[ Oct.2017 ] I saw a weird photo of a wall with many skulls on a website and found out that it was in a town called Solferino which is not too far from Milan…
