Italy, 2014

This is an album of photos taken during our trip to Italy in August and September, 2014.

We began our trip with four days in Rome doing the usual tourist things. Rome is a city where you can do the "tourist things" each time you visit, and you never seem to tire of them.

Following that we picked up a rented car and spent seven days driving through Umbria and Tuscany, visiting and staying in many of the famous "hill towns" along the way.It seems that, since our previous visit to this area, most of the hill towns have now decided to hold "festivals" of one sort or another in the August/September period. In one way this added something to the experience but, working against that, it certainly added to the crowds we encountered throughout Umbria and Tuscany.

Next, we spent four days in Florence and, during that time, visited the Accademia and Uffizi museums, before heading toward the coast, where we stayed for 3 days in Vernazza, on the famous Cinque Terre coastline.

From there we drove the short distance to Santa Margherita Ligure, where we had stayed on our 1988 European trip, and once again enjoyed our time there and in neighbouring Portofino.

Our trip finished with a relatively short drive to Milan to join our flight home.

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1. The Colosseum	2. The Colosseum	3. The Colosseum	4. The Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine	5. Victor Emmanuel monument
6. The Trevi Fountain	7. The Pantheon	8. The Pantheon	9. The Pantheon	10. Piazza Navona
11. Piazza Navona fountain	12. The Vatican Museums	13. The Meeting of Pope Leo and Atilla, by Raphael	14. The Disputation of the Sacrament, by Raphael	15. The Sistine Chapel
16. St. Peter's Square and Basilica	17. St. Peter's Square	18. Piazza del Popolo, Rome	19. Piazza del Popolo	20. Bagnoregio
21. Pitigliano	22. Pitigliano street theatre	23. Pitigliano by night	24. Pitigliano by night	25. View from our room in Todi
26. Piazza del Popolo in Todi	27. Piazza del Popolo, Todi	28. Garibaldi in Todi	29. A Todi street	30. Todi cafe and Vespa
31. Leaving Todi	32. Spello street	33. An anxious priest in Spello	34. A Spello street	35. The Palace of the Consuls, Gubbio
36. Sabine at the Palace of the Consuls, Gubbio	37. St. Ubaldo of Gubbio	38. Cortona	39. A church in Cortona	40. Montepulciano
41. The Palazzo Communale in Montepulciano	42. The Duomo of Montepulciano	43. A Montepulciano laneway	44. Montepulciano	45. Montepulciano
46. Montepulciano streets	47. San Gimignano	48. San Gimignano	49. San Gimignano towers	50. San Gimignano
51. San Gimignano	52. A panoramic view of Florence	53. Florence Cathedral	54. The Ponte Vecchio	55.The Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
56. Michelangelo's David	57. Michelangelo's David	58. Michelangelo's David	59. Michelangelo's David	60. Michelangelo's David
61. Michelangelo's Awakening Slave	62. Palestrina Pieta - attributed to Michelangelo	63. Florence Cathedral	64. Florence Cathedral	65. Florence Cathedral
66. "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli	67. Cinque Terre - Riomaggiore	68. Cinque Terre - Vernazza	69. Vernazza	70. Vernazza harbour
71. Vernazza umbrellas	72. Vernazza umbrellas	73. Cinque Terre - Corniglia	74. Cinque Terre - Manarola	75. Manarola
76. Approaching Manarola	77. Manarola	78. Santa Margherita Ligure	79. Santa Margherita Ligure	80. Columbus at Santa Margherita
81. Sabine with fishing boat at Santa Margherita	82. Unloading the catch at Santa Margherita	83. Portorino	84. Portofino	85. Portofino
86. Portofino	87. Portofino	89. Final view of Santa Margherita

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