We have slept in two days in a row until 9 o'clock!! and not been on the streets until after 10.30 - we're showing our age, and loving it! Yesterday was cloudy most of the day with a shower later in the afternoon but today started with fog which had cleared to some lovely sunshine by lunchtime - a good chance to take some photos. The Duomo Pass we bought yesterday enabled us to see the Duomo (cathedral) and the Duomo Museum, which contains much of the original artworks, statues, and a large circular glass window - they are in the museum for preservation reasons and there are copies in the Duomo. We were also able to enter the Crypt, the Baptistry, and today the Santa Maria Della Scala Museum which is a huge maze of buildings which operated as a hospital for centuries. Everything has been most interesting but we are feeling a bit Romanesque'd out. Amazing to experience, fascinating to see such skill, talent and gifts being used, but at times difficult to comprehend the costs involved and the emphasis on relics and Mary the Immaculate.
Over the two days we have walked several miles marvelling at the buildings - sometimes a tower next to a palace next to a villa, the high fashion shops, the squares, and the people - we have been told that it is very quiet because the tourist season has finished but to us the place is buzzing. We have also visited the Sanctuary of Saint Catherine - right next door to us (more Romanesque), and today we strolled through the weekly street market - full of locals and only a
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