Walking around Fiesole

Excavations at Fiesole: photo by Camille Nurka.


If you've been to Florence (Firenze) you'll know what I mean when I say walking round the streets there has a certain craziness about it, and we perfected getting lost to an art form. So it's good to jump on a bus and head up to Fiesole, in the hills above Firenze. You can walk a winding track up to Monte Ceceri, through terraces planted with olive trees, and cypress forests green as green. I loved it up there on the mountain, partly because this is where
Leonardo da Vinci practiced flying with the various ingenious contraptions he made! Sooner him than me. Rock was quarried there too, and we photographed some old workings.
Down the hill, in Fiesole itself, is the Museo Faesulanum, an incredibly interesting museum built in 1912, a copy of a first century Roman temple. The ancient Etruscan and Roman artefacts inside were fascinating (jars, bottles, belt buckles, statuary, friezes - AND a reconstructed grave with skeleton and grave objects!), but even better were the excavated sites down the hill from it: a Roman theatre, a temple, baths, a house. We could walk all over it, and along the paved Roman road where sandalled feet had walked two centuries earlier. (Photo above right: rock works on Monte Ceceri: Camille Nurka)
A PS question: how do I upload a photo from my computer, then attach a label right underneath it, where it belongs? Can someone enlighten me?