From Rome to the region of the Marches, it can take a minimum of 3 hours...but we did it in 2 days! We decided to drive to Umbria and set up our tent in Spoleto, in a small campsite called Campeggio Monteluco. At that point we had made up our minds that we had to exchange the rental car (rented that same morning in Rome)! The Fiat Panda was just not driving well, coughing up and stalling...except when driving fast as in the case when driving around Rome on the Gran Raccordo. To make a long story short, the owners of the camping have helped us to contact the local Hertz shop in Spoleto and went out of their ways to make sure that we would be fine ..They were so kind! Roberta, the wife of the owner, spoke French and English...Luckily then my Italian is really not up to the challenge of describing car problems!We finally got a new car...another Fiat. In the mean time we had time to visit this neat place called Spoleto, a major artistic center in Umbria (we knew of the Spoleto festival in Charleston,USA...named after this place!) and the site of the Palazzo Mauri! You all knew I was rich but this rich????...
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| Palazzo Mauri the palace headquarters of the Municipal Library, was built by Andrea Mauri between the XVI and XVII century. Its facade is decorated with a series of windows of elegant design and its interior there are frescoes of the'600 and'700 (photo and text by Silvio Sorcini who lives in Spoleto). |
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