Italy and Switzerland 2018
Posts from our trip to Italy and Switzerland from September 25 to October 9, 2018. Heather and I took Heather’s parents on an itinerary that included Rome, the Tuscan countryside, Siena, Assisi, Florence, Varenna (on Lake Como), finishing in Luzern, Switzerland.
The hilltop town of Montisi. (Castelmuzio, Tuscany, Italy)
Posted on September 30, 2018
Grape vines and Cyprus trees. (Trequanda, Tuscany, Italy)
Posted on September 29, 2018
Tuscan sunset. (Trequanda, Tuscany, Italy)
Posted on September 29, 2018
It seems like even the tiniest village church in Italy has incredible art inside. This is the Church of Saints Peter and Andrea in Trequandra, Tuscany (pop. 1380), built in 1397. Inside are beautiful frescos of the Ascension, and the Madonna with Child. (Trequanda, Tuscany, Italy)
Posted on September 29, 2018
Views from”Le Crete,” the agriturismo we’re staying in near Trequanda, Tuscany. (Trequanda, Tuscany, Italy)
Posted on September 29, 2018
Rome ? Chiusi ? Trequanda, Tuscany ?
Posted on September 29, 2018
The nave of St. John Lateran is huge, but it’s just a fraction the size of St. Peter’s Basilica. The scale of the churches in Rome is mind boggling. (Epispocal see of Rome, Latium, Italy)
Posted on September 28, 2018
The high altar and side chapel (!) at St. Mary Major. The side chapel is larger than a lot of churches back home. (Monti, Latium, Italy)
