Montalcino

It was a day to check out Montalcino, the town straight up the mountain beyond our grapevines.  All was quiet.  The 19th-century cathedral was open and light-filled but the well in the park next to it was dark and cheerless; some sort of colorful mosaic is supposed to be visible when you open the portholes on top of the well but there was nothing but the faint glint of a soda can in the dimness.  The fourteenth-century church St. Egidio has been (sadly) remodeled but it still has a certain charm.

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