{"id":349,"date":"2009-04-17T21:45:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T21:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2009-04-24T12:43:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:43:02","slug":"buona-pasqua-da-assisi-happy-easter-from-assisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Buona Pasqua da Assisi (Happy Easter from Assisi!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I spent the weekend in Assisi, the city of St. Francis (well, the other<\/em> city of St. Francis – San Francisco, which is almost as hilly and has a similar vibe, is named after him.) Francis seems like he was a pretty enlightened dude. He loved nature, and he started the Franciscan monastic order who are all about simplicity and meditation. They say he put a blessing on the walls inside the city – so that everyone who visited or lived there would know peace. Could be – it’s certainly one of the very most peaceful places I’ve ever been. Also very beautiful.
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\nWhile there, I climbed to the top of the city (which is built on a hill) to visit Rocca Majora, the fortress that sits at the peak. The view was great, although I wish it hadn’t been so hazy. Here’s a panorama I took from the top of the tower:
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\nMore shots of the fortress:
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There were a great many oddly shaped holes in the walls of the fortress. I quite enjoyed the effect of taking photos through them:<\/p>\n

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Here are some shots of the surrounding countryside.<\/p>\n

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The orchards around the town were full of wonderfully bent and gnarled trees. They all looked very happy. Notice the forked trunk at the bottom. Could these be… sleeping Ents?<\/p>\n

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I took a lot of shots of the windy, steep streets of the town itself, which was also beautiful, kind of like Venice but with steepness instead of canals.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the view of the town from the window of my room at the hostel.<\/p>\n

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Even the graffiti artists were inspired by St. Francis:<\/p>\n

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The atmosphere at the hostel was great – very chill and friendly and warm, much in keeping with the whole place. For a two-day stay I made more friends than I’ve made staying a week in other places.<\/p>\n

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Seen here are (right to left) Trude<\/a> from Norway, Marcel from Austria, An Aussie named Lloyd (thanks Trude :-), Pablo from Brazil, and Justin from the US. Also, that guy grinning like a fool in the background is just some random weirdo who snuck into the photo at the last second. What a freak \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the weekend in Assisi, the city of St. Francis (well, the other city of St. Francis – San Francisco, which is almost as hilly and has a similar vibe, is named after him.) Francis seems like he was a pretty enlightened dude. He loved nature, and he started the Franciscan monastic order who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dagfooyo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}