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Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo

by eternalcityblues
Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 05:33:15 AM EST

A cat....

... and its habitat...

Sunday morning cat in old city photo blogging...from the diaries - whataboutbob

Worth exploring? On a lazy summer day...

... all kinds of interesting nooks and crannies to check out...

... shops...

... just round the corner there's a tiny pulpit -
the sign says "Thomas of Aquinas preached here"...

The houses certainly look lived-in - not surprisingly as people have been living in them for at least 700 years?

... and every now and then more bits get added on...

Those veggie-gardens inside the ramparts look well looked-after - just in case it gets beseiged?

' Course Viterbo also has its noble side - Palace of the Popes...

... with stone lace and felines rampant:

.. other rampant felines grace the fountains...

... and the walls! Full circle.

..........

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Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo | 13 comments (13 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (none / 0)

Great pictures! I have a friend who is from Viterbo.

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by tzt (tztmail at gmail dot com) on Sat Dec 2nd, 2006 at 09:52:38 PM EST

Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (none / 0)

Yes!! Great photos...thank you, I really enjoy your photo-journalism!

And where is Viterbo...it definitely looks like a fun place to explore?

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by whataboutbob on Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 04:02:42 AM EST

Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (none / 1)

gorgeous, ecb...

it's quite amazing how aesthetic and atmospheric the historical centre of almost any italian city or town is.

you reallycaptured viterbo well.

viterbo is near lake bolsena, in lazio, half an hour north of rome.

it's a magical area where i have gone camping quite often.

have you found the hot springs at marta yet?

apart from being the hottest i found in italy, the pools are deep and wide enough for swimming, which is very unusual.

the other good thing is they're out in the middle of a field, without any of the luxy or commercialised infrastructure that has desouled other hot springs.

it's about 2 1)2 hrs south of where i live, beatig down the 4-laned but badly surfaced E45.

you know a hot springs is good when you put 5 hrs there and back drive to enjoy them.!

saturnia on monte amiata is very special too, where the whole river is hot, giving you a constant rolling massage of hot sulphury water.

great pix, thanks!

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by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 06:35:24 AM EST

Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (4.00 / 2)

Thanks to all for the appreciation! :-)

I've never been to Marta, never been to Saturnia either - but they're both on my list of places to visit, sound fascinating. I'm also interested in Monte Amiata because of its tragic religious history - the crushing of Davide Lazzaretti's Giusdavidic movement in the 19th century - so sooner or later I'll make my way there.

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by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 09:12:25 AM EST
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Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (none / 1)

i didn't know that about amiata. sounds interesting - diary perhaps?

i have skiid up there and it has a ppwerful vibe, stunning countryside around saturnia too, especially with the flame-yellow scotch broom -ginestra - perfuming and lighting up the hillsides in spring.

there is a big airbase near viterbo, i heard quite a lot of traffic in the sky at night there.

Marta is only a few clicks from viterbo, on the road to montefiascone.

very pretty lake village, with white swans i wanted to kidnap and take to trasimeno!

jes' kidding...

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by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 07:58:03 PM EST
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Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (4.00 / 2)

There's a good Italian wiki link about Davide Lazzaretti -

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lazzaretti

Fascinating story - a 19th century religious visionary along the lines of Gioacchino da Fiore, with a mystical utopian-socialist agenda complete with red banner bearing the words "The Republic is the Kingdom of Heaven" and a liking for the Paris Comune. Not surprisingly, he got excommunicated by the Pope then shot down by the Carabinieri.

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by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 08:19:37 PM EST
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Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (4.00 / 2)

poor sod, i feel for him..

running head on into reality at warp speed...

if the christians don't get you, the cops will...

sound slike he made it to the kingdom of heaven a little earlier than he anticipated!

Lobbyists are people too...

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 09:02:31 PM EST
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Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (none / 0)

Ah these photos are gorgeous. I love Italy and these photos are Italian through and through!

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 06:59:40 AM EST

Eternal (none / 1)

Eternal places, eternal pictures.

A pleasure

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by kcurie on Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 08:31:39 AM EST

Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (none / 0)

What a beautiful little town/village!

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by Illustrious10 on Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 09:04:28 AM EST

Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (4.00 / 3)

Viterbo has around 100,000 inhabitants altogether, it's a provincial capital - SO by size I'd say it's either a large town or a smallish city? It also has a modern part with all the usual trimmings: apartment blocks, office blocks, department stores, buses and bustle... plus a very interesting Etruscan museum. These pics show the old part - the "historical centre". And as melo says:

it's quite amazing how aesthetic and atmospheric the historical centre of almost any italian city or town is

;-).. not only a delight to explore but an endless source of material for photo-diaries.

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by eternalcityblues (parvati_roma aaaat libero.it) on Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 at 09:30:36 AM EST
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Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (none / 1)

and you are doing a stellar job!

Lobbyists are people too...

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 06:41:40 PM EST
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Re: Italian provincial blogging: exploring Viterbo (none / 0)

It looks wonderful. When I buy a summer cottage I'll buy it in Italy. Or maybe Croatia.

(No, no, no, just like almost all Swedes own stocks half of all Swedes own summer houses so there is no need to attack.)

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by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon Dec 4th, 2006 at 01:38:07 PM EST

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