Pardi in Montefalco

A bottle of Sagrantino from Pardi Cantina

Yes I did mean to spell that ending in ‘di’ rather than ‘ty’, but after a couple of visits to Montefalco during my sister’s recent visit here, the description of party might also be appropriate. Montefalco is a place we take all our visitors, a wonderful town [...]

The Gru is Gone

And away goes the crane

After more than two years of being able to identify the skyline of our town by the addition of a huge crane (gru in Italian, for both the bird and the lifty thing) we finally have the view from our terrace without the crane! Can’t say we will really [...]

Summer Art School

Canadian art student in the town

One of the nice things about our hilltop town, is that it is also the home to an International School of Art. From late May to September each year, university students, either studying or interested in Art, arrive for courses and instruction ranging in length from a week [...]

Speranza

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22nd Camminata della Speranza this year was a walk [...]

Deruta Ceramics

We have a few favourite ceramic shops when we take visitors to Deruta – Nulli and Nicolini stores on the ‘Maioliche Mile‘ and up in the old town, Monica and Sergio’s Il Fornace di San Lorenzo. While my sister was here on  a recent visit, we discovered a new one, DerutaPlacens. There are two [...]