A Grand Retirement Adventure by Alan Blake: Part 10

Streets, roads and highways in Italy can be an adventure. Outside major cities, and even in parts of those cities, many streets have no sidewalks, or the sidewalk has become a parking lot or a restaurant space. Sometimes drivers stop to run into a store, regardless of the flow of traffic or the difficulty of passage […]

A Grand Retirement Adventure by Alan Blake: Part 9

  In the height of Montepulciano is the Duomo (cathedral). The diocese consists of Montepulciano, Chiusi, Pienza and surrounding small towns.  There is also a cathedral in Chiusi (see part 7), and both are listed a “co-cathedrals.” The Duomo in Montepulciano is much larger, with some beautiful side chapels, but overall seems a bit plain […]