Cinque Terre Florence Umbria

By Enrico Massetti

It is a guide to a two weeks trip in the center of Italy: Parma to Assisi passing through the Cinque Terre, Portovenere, Lerici, Carrara, Lucca, Pisa, Pistoia, Florence, Siena, Volterra, San Gimignano, Montepulciano, Passignano sul Trasimeno, Perugia and then Assisi.

There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions.

It is ideal for use on your smart phone, it contains many reviews for the best recommended restaurants that are at the location described. There are active links to the review pages, you can use them if you have an active Internet connection, but, if you don't, you have the basic information ready: the name, address and telephone number are included in the guide together with the review.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Massetti Publishing
• Release date: Nov 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215747667

Enrico Massetti

Enrico Massetti nació en Milán, Italia, donde vivió durante más de 30 años, visitando innumerables destinos turísticos, desde las montañas de los Alpes hasta el mar de Sicilia. Ahora vive en Washington, Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, visita regularmente su ciudad natal y disfruta recorriendo todos los lugares de su país, especialmente aquellos a los que puede llegar en transporte público. Puede contactar con Enrico en [e-mail].

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Cinque Terre Florence Umbria

Enrico Massetti

Published by Massetti Publishing, 2022.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

CINQUE TERRE FLORENCE UMBRIA

First edition. November 7, 2022.

Copyright © 2022 Enrico Massetti.

ISBN: 979-8215747667

Written by Enrico Massetti.

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dedicato ai miei amici toscani e liguri

Cinque Terre

Florence Umbria

Enrico Massetti

Cinque Terre Florence Umbria

Enrico Massetti

Text Copyright © Enrico Massetti 2015-2021

Images ©, or CC Creative Commons license, as specified for each image

Cover image © Enrico Massetti, Adobe inc.

Published by Enrico Massetti

All Rights Reserved

2021 edition

ISBN 978-1-365-89752-8

dedicated to my friends who love Umbria

the ones who live in Parma and Carrara

This book covers the first half of the trip

from Parma to Assisi

Romanesque to the Renaissance

from Parma to Assisi

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The itinerary

This itinerary takes us to the cities of Central Italy which contributed to the development of those architectural and figurative forms from which the Renaissance was born. Although it may seem to have come about suddenly thanks to some hidden force, this movement was prepared over a period of centuries as, little by little, form was achieving a profound spiritual equilibrium and, at the same time, was being freed from the stylistic rigidity which had set in over the centuries.

It is astonishing to note how, despite the difficult communications of those times, the ruggedness of the Apennines presented no barrier to the spreading of artistic knowledge. During our journey, we shall follow the path by which the Lombard and other Northern artists descended by way of the mountain passes of Liguria and the Garfagnana into the northernmost part of Tuscany, bearing the message of the new Romanesque art and spreading its lesson throughout the ancient land of the Etruscans.

During the Renaissance, Tuscany was to return the gift, when its artists moved north, into Romagna and elsewhere. The thoughtful and painstaking visitor, considering the fifteen important, and the (at least) an equal number of lesser centers, cannot fail to be amazed by the extraordinary concentration of artistic life flourishing within this restricted area, on either side of the Apennines.

The itinerary:

Our itinerary shall start in Parma, which we will visit the first day.

Parma.

We shall start our visit from the square occupied by the Cathedral and the Baptistery, one of the most outstanding groups of Romanesque buildings in the country. The Baptistery, a marvelous octagonal structure (1196-1260), reveals a stylistic severity and a richness of invention that places it foremost among buildings of its kind in Italy.

Teatro Regio

The architecture and the sculpture are the work of one artist, the great Benedetto Antelami (1177-1233).

The frescoes inside constitute the largest group of 13th-century painting in Northern Italy. The solemn Cathedral. with its graceful, pointed facade and three orders of loggias, and elegant Porch (1281), also contains a fine sculpture by Antelami as well as Correggio fresco masterpiece: The Assumption, painted around the Dome. Another dome frescoed by Correggio is to be seen in the neighboring church of S. Giovanni Evangelista. Going down Borgo Correggio and Via Petrarca we come to Via della Repubblica: on the corner is the church of S. Antonio Abate, designed by Bibiona (1714).

We then take the Via della Repubblica to Piazza del Municipio; here, not far away, we can visit the Museum, which a private citizen, Prof. Lombardi, donated to the city and which contains all sorts of relics and curios of Marie Louise, Napoleon second wife.