An interesting tour in Umbria, Italy

by Carla
(Italy)

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My tour yesterday was not a mystery tour like Peter's because I knew the program. In the morning I would visit the painter Pintoricchio's exhibition in Perugia, a beautiful town of Umbria in central Italy. In the afternoon I would take a tour on a ferryboat on the lake Trasimeno and visit one of its islands called Isola Maggiore.

The photos are not as good as yours but can give you an idea of the lake and the island. What astonished me were the giant plants with very bright and sweet smelling flowers that covered the olive tree grove and also the birds singing and the little wild animals I saw there like pheasants, hares and wild rabbits.

Those plants are not edible and it is sad to think they are actually weeds.

I felt like Alice in wonderland. How beautiful to walk among them and look at the lake through them and the tormented shapes of olive trees, some looking like artrithic characters.

The only tiny village was surprising in every corner too. It was a long day, I got up at 5.15 a.m. and I was back just before 11 p.m. but I feel richer.

Here is a photo of one of Pintoricchio's paintings. As you probably know, this is a surname, his name was Bernardino di Benedetto and lived between 1400 and 1500. He was coeval of another most famous painter of Perugia, called Perugino. I don't mean to teach you anything, I could not, it is just a short reminder.