Around the World: Spello
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reviews_and_ramblingsDo you miss me? Sorry but last week I was pretty absent and the reason is that from Monday to Friday I was in Dublin for work, and the weekend I went to visit a bit of Italy, Marche and Umbria county. So as "present", here for you a very fresh and new pic from my weekend, just downloaded from the digital camera...
by Elisa, Spello, 2008
I don't know what to think of this digital camera, I'm more a type of reflex camera, but for sure is easy to share with you the pics as soon as I make them!
Spello (in Antiquity: Hispellum) is an ancient town and comune (township) of Italy, in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Mt. Subasio. It is 6 km (4 mi) NNW of Foligno and 10 km (6 mi) SSE of Assisi.
The old walled town lies on a regularly NW-SE sloping ridge that eventually meets the plain. From the top of the ridge, Spello commands a good view of the Umbrian plain towards Perugia; at the bottom of the ridge, the town spills out of its walls into a small modern section (or Borgo) served by the rail line from Rome to Florence via Perugia.
Populated in ancient times by the Umbri, it became a Roman colony in the 1st century BC. Under the reign of Constantine the Great it was called Flavia Constans, as attested by a document preserved in the local Communal Palace. (From Wikipedia)
by Elisa, Spello, 2008
I don't know what to think of this digital camera, I'm more a type of reflex camera, but for sure is easy to share with you the pics as soon as I make them!
Spello (in Antiquity: Hispellum) is an ancient town and comune (township) of Italy, in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Mt. Subasio. It is 6 km (4 mi) NNW of Foligno and 10 km (6 mi) SSE of Assisi.
The old walled town lies on a regularly NW-SE sloping ridge that eventually meets the plain. From the top of the ridge, Spello commands a good view of the Umbrian plain towards Perugia; at the bottom of the ridge, the town spills out of its walls into a small modern section (or Borgo) served by the rail line from Rome to Florence via Perugia.
Populated in ancient times by the Umbri, it became a Roman colony in the 1st century BC. Under the reign of Constantine the Great it was called Flavia Constans, as attested by a document preserved in the local Communal Palace. (From Wikipedia)
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Date: 2008-08-24 09:44 pm (UTC)