We took our time getting out of the house, the dark sky not being very inviting to us.  We had a nice 15 minute walk over to the Palazzo Collicola musuem.  the building itself is a restored Noble’s home from the 1700’s and much of that art and design is still there for viewing.  Upstairs houses a collection of contemporary and modern, mostly Italian artists.  And of course, the justaposition of the two worlds make each one more interesting than they would have been alone.  Case in point:

These Calder pieces in a room with work by Candente, to whom the museum is dedicated, was really nice:

And I particularly loved this room painted by Sol LeWitt, who’s chapel in Piemonte we found years ago with Anthony and Lyn.

The show was small enough that we could take it all in and enjoy it.

From there we went up to Piazza Mercato and bought a bunch of prepared food to go for dinner and some focaccia and hams for lunch.  We stopped into the wine store, too.

By the time we finished our shopping it had started to get pretty blustery and rainy, so we hopped on the moving walkway and came home.

We had a nice lunch and rest except that there is work being done on the floor above us with power tools and hammers.  If we weren’t leaving Wednesday morning, I would talk to the landlords about moving but…

When it stopped raining we went out for a nice walk.  Seeing all of the Christmas lights up around town reminds me of why I wanted to come so late in the autumn.  

We walked up to the duomo; it was eerily quiet up there.  The Rocca/Fortress is fully lit on the top of the hill above.

By the time we came back around 6:00, our Corso Garibaldi was in full passegiatta mode, young and old just stolling for community sake.  It’s one of my favorite Italian traditions. I love being part of it, and it warms me up even on this chilly night.

We ate our easy dinner with some serious conversation. Both of us feel ready to go home.  The infrequency of sunshine is not helping. We think that towns like Orvieto and Spoleto would have been better for 5 days instead of a full week. We talked a lot about the evolution of our travel tastes and styles and how different we are from 10 years ago. Rome is in our immediate future and that excites me.