This is Collegio San Alfonso jutting from a hillside in the foothills of the Appenine Mountains some 500 meters below the old fortified city of Cortona overlooking the Pianura Toscana.. Tuscan Plain. For the history buffs among you .. at the bottom of the mountain to the left of the picture is a small grouping of farm buildings and empty rocky fields called Ossaia.. I used to walk there almost every day... where the great Roman army took a lesson in military strategy from the even Greater Hannibal who led his forces to an overwhelming victory over the masters of the Italic peninsula on this precise site in 216 B.C. ... in fact , Ossaia means "boneyard".Turn left at Ossaia and you are on the road to Perugia and Assisi..........cut straight across the Pianura to Montepulciano (20 kilometers) for you wine lovers out there.... or north of Ossaia a wee bit.. maybe 10 to 20 kilometers to Castel Fiorentino where La Bella Vita .. The Beautiful Life ... was filmed . Oh yes , Sienna is but a few kilometers away to the Northwest across the Plain. Now I am just rambling on and shall stop here before I lose those of you who have shown such great patience so as to even come this far. I just got carried away !! Amen for now !!
P.S. Should you get this far don"t forget the introductory blog just below which puts this one into perspective.
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