After long years, I've finally made once again two weeks vacation at a time. We wanted to Arezzo in the southern Tuscany. As we drove by car, we stopped at the half way, in Augsburg.
The camera stayed in the city of St. Ulrich in the car. Therefore be made here to the professionally made interactive Cathedral tour on the net ...
The ancient Roman city has a fairly well-preserved core with buildings from the Middle Ages and Renaissance and a very large and magnificent "Cardo", which here, strangely enough, not high, but Maximilian street is called.
The rich family of Fugger donated here the oldest social settlement in the world , see the need still for 88 cents a year and three daily prayers for the founder of a hotel.
St. Ulrich had closed, the magnificent Gothic Basilica of SS Ulrich and Afra at the southern end of the Cardo was in restauro.
Next to the cathedral at the north end of the Maximilian Street, we visited one or the other church, in which as a "pearl" St. Peter at the Perlach stands out: Located next to City Hall and with a - in comparison to the church - about three times oversized tower equipped, it may first seem to stand outside the town hall tower, then discovered behind it a "tower chapel," which turns out to be neat Romanesque church. This is the image of Mary the Knots : Below you see two people who go their own way of life, and above them Our Lady. An angel gives her a knotted belt. Maria solves the node and the smooth piece of tape to another angel. The band corresponding to the life of the people who can find their "nodes" in Mary a "solution".
was struck by the low price level. As the evening we wanted to eat something, we were even on the Maximilianstrasse is no restaurant with Swabian cuisine (I had been so happy to ravioli!), But "only" (one) Italians. Nothing against the Italian kitchen - on the contrary. Also because of the clothes of most strollers we had the impression that the city apparently suffers from a certain "precariousness".
The next day we crossed the Alps and went to Raven. The lunch break in Bolzano we made it clear that the city is nice, but you need not necessarily mean ...
In Ravenna we visited the
S. Vitale (for me the high point) and the mausoleum of the Galla Placidia with the famous mosaic of the Good Shepherd,
and on the Continue
But do not worry: the relaxation with good food and drink was not too short ...
We left the Po Valley to the south and drove through the mountains to Arezzo. In Sansepolcro, we made lunch break to visit also the resurrection image of Piero della Francesca at City Hall - a renaissance variation of the "Originals " on the high altar of the cathedral.
Then we reached Arezzo, a beautiful, typical Italian town with a medieval Character (the city is of course more than 2000 years old. The Piazza Grande is the emblem of the city (districts and families) decorated. Here the riders already exercised their struggle for the tournament Saracens.
then Pieve , the Baptistry from the time when the cathedral (and therefore the proper place of baptism) or outside the city, was
etc..
excursions took us to Assisi (I had no Photoappartat with, but it was already everywhere, "NO PHOTO!") The last time I was there in 1979. Was impressive, especially the "staging" of the Holy Sepulchre Church of St. Francis, the visitors of the bright, clear upper church of the dark and labyrinthine crypt to the (modern, but very successful) crypt before that out of the rocks exposed and now as a column in the room standing out grave.
The other impressions of Assisi were better than expected. I had thought that the crowds of pilgrims and tourists annoying "mess up" the place. There was, however, all in a good frame bearable.
Perugia was virtually in the neighborhood, as Cortona, from where we visited the Franciscan sanctuary of the cells and the Abbey Church Farneta .
A warning to potential imitators: Do not drive in the late summer to Italy! to come after two weeks of sun and lightness of being in the frühherbstliche Germany makes depressed ...
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