Undeterred by this minor setback and in view of the weather – about 39 degrees in the shade, we again ‘headed for the hills’ in the hope of it being a little cooler. We’d seen what looked like an unusual church on the hillside and decided to make a bee line for it. Except ‘bee lines’ don’t exist in Italy. About an hour and a half later, having driven up and down the same bit of road half a dozen times, we finally found what appeared to be the right road (even if it did have a no entry sign above it – we were past caring by then!) The amazing thing about this road, besides being incredibly steep was that it was flanked on one side by a covered walkway – one you might associate with the Roman Style or a monastery. It soon became clear it was leading the way to a very special place. Up and up it went and at one point the road crossed through it. We could see people walking up inside and winced at how steep it was. Should we have left the car at the bottom and walked up – we would have managed about 100 yards? At the top we found a huge church like building – was it a monastery?- could you go round it? I was so desperate to see it I asked the nearest person, who turned out to be a German and yes you could walk round it.
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