Friday - last day of school

After lunch, some of the group went to see an Italian film made in 1954. I went back to the Duomo to see the bits I missed because of the wedding preparations when I was there previously. This time I got an interesting brochure about the church. Attached to the current cathedral are 2 smaller, older churches. One is a baptistery – a smallish church with a huge baptismal font right in the centre. This was carved from one huge marble block and has interesting scenes from the gospels carved around it. The church of St Elena is adjacent. It was built in the 9th century on top of some old Roman ruins. Some of these you can see through open bits of the floor. Once again, nice cloisters.

While I was having afternoon tea at the nice café I found the week before, I planned the next part of the day. I caught a bus that crossed the river and went up the hill. I had no idea what I would find, but that was part of the fun. I walked down the hill, hoping to find a way through the big houses and apartment blocks to the park which looked, from the map, like it had walking tracks through it. Unfortunately, I either ended up in people’s back yards or at locked gates. I did stumble across a modern church – 30 years old maybe, with modern stained glass windows and interesting architecture. By the time I got home it was dinner time – more food and wine.