2023 Saturday Oct. 28

Montefiascone to Viterbo

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Viterbo is known as a city beloved by 12th and 13th c. Popes who established fortified Papal States for the city. We visited the information center to get a map and advice for the top sights to visit. She recommended that we stay five days—how to parse that to just three hours!

An Italian war memorial. Viterbo was heavily bombed in World War II and many of its sights show the effects or had to be rebuilt.

A fountain near the main piazza in town, the Piazza del Plebescito.

Popes and their official symbols seem to be recognized on many building.

Inside the Duomo, you can see chunks missing from columns as evidence of war wounds.

The Palazzo dei Papi housed the Papal seat for 24 years between 1257-1281. It adjoins the Duomo.

Santa Rosa is a hometown saint celebrated each December 3 or 4 with a holy celebration. One hundred men carry a giant structure in a parade through the town. Every five years the structure is changed.

Santa Rosa is remembers in a 19th c. church bearing her name.

Not the best photo since it was taken through glass, but it shows some of the structures celebrating Santa Rosa from prior years. Look closely at the base of the two structures on the right and you can see the 100 men shouldering the structure.

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