Fri - Urbania

Today I went to Urbania, a town 20km SE of Urbino by bus for 1/2 day.

Urbania is the town featured in the language book that my Italian teacher uses. Over the past few years I have been (rather intermittently) trying to learn the language by reading about the exploits of a group of students at the language school there.

The old part of the town is of a similar age to Urbino, with similar narrow streets and old buildings. Some of the surrounding wall remains. I saw no other obvious tourists. Several times I stopped to talk to locals – all very chatty. There were lots of churches, mostly quite small. During WW2 Urbino got badly bombed one day. There is a new church built as an anti war reminder. I found a nice café – cappuccino and croissant for morning tea (€1.90) – sitting outside - that’s the view in the photo – and later I had a sandwich and water there €2.10. As I was buying my food, a well-dressed young lady come in and bought a small piece of pizza and a medium glass of prosecco. Just as I had sat down another came in and did the same. “When in Rome ..” I thought. €2 for a glass mid way in size between a sherry and white wine glass. Sort of made up for the night before.