Cortona
3 nights at Hotel Sabrina
We spent ages waiting in the heat for the next bus from Camuccia station up to the hill town of Cortona.
Lovely view from Cortona's Piazza Garibaldi (which is the bus terminus); Lago Trasimeno in the distance.
From hotel room window, looking up Via Roma.
Palazzo del Comune (13th century), in Cortona's main piazza.
'Bones of the dead' - a Cortona snack, apparently.
Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca. Really well done temporary exhibition, organised by The Louvre (yes, from Paris), on the Etruscans (what else?).
A griffin. Was this Etruscan? - I can't remember. I like him, though.
The MAEC museum goes on and on. Two parts of it are connected by a walkway from which you can see out over the Tuscan plains.
(Definitely not Etruscan.) This ancient chest had an elaborate locking mechanism with 12 latches.
MAEC again, but obviously not Etruscan either. Beautiful old chess set.
A few 00 metres to the north of Cortona there is this church (Santa Maria Nuova) which we unfortunately never visited.
Piazza San Cristoforo, where we sat in the shade for a rest.
Prickly!
At the top of the hill on which Cortona stands, there is the Fortezza di Girifalco (a gyrfalcon, it says in my dictionary, is a large falcon of the arctic or sub-arctic regions, so an odd choice for naming a Mediterranean fort). This view is of the internal 'courtyard', used for concerts etc.
The plains of Tuscany from inside Fortezza di Girifalco.
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