Comments | london1952: Tuscan Catch-Up #2

london1952

Tuscan Catch-Up #2

Feb 28, 2011 15:24

Waking up to find the forecast rain indeed falling quite heavily, we decided to continue with our planned day tour..... we did catch a mention of snow on the tv news, but didn't expect to see as much as we did !

Our first stop was the amazing medieval "Ponte della Maddalena", we almost missed it, but suddenly caught sight of it and made a little ( Read more... )

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maxauburn February 28 2011, 16:05:33 UTC

Wow... snow covered roofs.. a castle... a slippery old bridge.. and beautiful views!

Very impressive!

london1952 February 28 2011, 17:10:13 UTC

It is/was indeed !

changeling72 February 28 2011, 16:11:04 UTC

All looks beautiful, as one would expect.

Where are you two boys off to next?

london1952 February 28 2011, 17:12:36 UTC

It does, and not quite the scenery one expects after the usual Tuscan views on show everywhere.

We are off to Calabria at the weekend.... part of our "Italian Year" !

paterson_si February 28 2011, 17:11:31 UTC

I miss pastry. :)

london1952 February 28 2011, 17:14:00 UTC

I was going to say "a day without pastry", but then I remember we had some.... but didn't get a photo of it !! LOL

paterson_si February 28 2011, 17:16:20 UTC

See? I *do* follow you. :)

london1952 February 28 2011, 17:19:30 UTC

Oh, absolutely !! ;-)

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tilia_tomentosa March 2 2011, 00:34:45 UTC

Love that bridge! :)I only took a look at it, and I thought, "It's a Devil's Bridge". I've already learned to recognize them. So it's medieval?

We have at least one in Bulgaria - it's also medieval, but built upon the remnants of an older Roman bridge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyavolski_most
More photos below (it's all in Bulgarian):
http://www.nasamnatam.com/patepis/Dqvolski_most-219.html
http://btourism.com/read.php?id=82

london1952 March 2 2011, 18:08:39 UTC

Yes it is... though altered a bit at one side when the railway went in ! how could they !

WOW, that bridge looks fantastic ! those Romans got everywhere !! LOL

tilia_tomentosa March 2 2011, 18:21:34 UTC

Oh, it was the Roman Empire here all right. :)

But that bridge is very much Bulgarian late medieval masonry, and the best quality at that. We were under the Ottoman Empire then, but there were some famous Bulgarian master builders. I have no idea what the original Roman bridge was like.

nzguy1 March 2 2011, 09:38:21 UTC

That red phone box must have looked strange in that setting. I love that bridge...I often wish things like that could talk and tell the tales of what has happened over the years.

london1952 March 2 2011, 18:11:14 UTC

It was weird, because it took a few minutes to register ! .... then WTF, how did that get here ? It has a note in it to say !
Oh yes, when you think how long things have been around.... it certainly makes one feel mortal !