Scenes from Cingoli

In October 2006, Carol and I took a vacation to Italy.  We visited Rome, Cingoli, Assisi, then Florence.  Cingoli is the home of Elena (Sorci) who was a foreign exchange student at Lindhurst High back in 1984/85.  Cingoli (pronounced CHEEN-go-lee) is a small town near the Adriatic Sea on the east coast of Italy.  This was the most beautiful part of our trip.  If I had known how lovely and relaxing it would be we would have planned to stay longer than one day.  Elena first took us to see the house they were building on a hilltop overlooking plush green farmland (see the video below) although this day it was a little hazy.  Then we drove into town and looked around a bit, and later we all had lunch in Elena & Daniel's apartment.  Afterwords they drove us to Assisi to see the famous cathedral and frescos there (which I have heard sustained significant damage due to a recent earthquake).

Here are additional photos from Cingoli, and some old frescos from a small church there:

Later we had a delicious lunch which Elena made for us:

We had a fun time watching their son, Damiano, while Elena was cooking:




Then we took a lovely drive to the church where Elena and Daniel were married (the church is not pictured):

And then they drove us to Assisi and toured the cathedral of St. Francis:

There are many more pictures and videos to come, so please check back again later.