Thursday, April 15, 2010

On the Piazza del Comune

Here's a reasonably sized sedan for getting about town.  Fits in the narrow streets.  Probably gets great gas mileage.  Easy to park (although this driver seems to have had difficulty).  Plus a snazzy sunroof.  Such modest cars are commonplace.
Behind the car, on a wall beyond the truck, can be seen the following: 
Not sure what the upper part says, but the lower part is the "measures" used in Assisi, standards for measuring things like wool, wood, bricks, tiles, etc.  It was put there around 1349.  Looking up from the measures one sees a principal landmark of Assisi, the Torre del Popolo (tower of the people), from the Thirteenth Century.  This bell tower is next to Santa Maria delle Minerva, adapted from the original Roman Temple of Minerva.

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