Travels low cost: Volterra and the disappointment of Twilight

Friday 3 June 2011

Volterra and the disappointment of Twilight

A very short distance separated us from Volterra, where we arrived in the late morning. I had thought I could have spent all day there but in the end there weren't so many things to see. There’s the usual cathedral, the usual square, the usual medieval village… all nice things, but certainly nothing impressive. Above all, I thought I could have found Pattinson!! Or at least some remnant of his passing, but nothing – it seemed as if he had never been there.

The medieval village, however, was very pretty and built in the typical old Italian style; there're still the food stores and the cobbler! We got two buns stuffed with ham... mmmm how delicious! The midday sun was annoying, though, and we aimlessly dragged ourselves through the streets, getting a little bored, so we decided to head back to the car by passing through the park. Just the time to get in the car, and yet another thunderstorm stroke.

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Sienese hills.

2011 © Giovanna Puccia. All right reserved.
My Tower of Pisa.

When we arrived at the Fattoria Casabianca, we got stunned: acres and acres of land (more than 650), in the territory once inhabited by the Etruscans, where the woods and the Mediterranean scrub are the natural habitat of wild boars, deer, roe deer, porcupines, and buzzards, and where the vineyards paint rolling hills.

In this huge farm there're five ancient farmhouses built in 1200 and refurbished respecting their original architectural identity. Next to the reception, there's a room available for guests, for wine tastings or meetings in a warm atmosphere. And it was right in one of these rooms, that a real tragedy would go down…