STUART SILCOX
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Greetings, more adventures from my 2018 Italy trip. This week, an excursion to the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena.

A Sunday afternoon walk around the old town, including a flea market and a very grim war memorial.

Bologna is the capital of the Northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna

I started with the tombs of Dante and Theodoric the Great, and there are also more mosaics.

On my first day, I visited the Basilica of San Vitale, and around the back in a smaller brick building is the Mausoleo di Galla Placidia.

while staying in Padua in 2018, I visited the Scrovegni Chapel, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Frescoes painted in 1305 by Giotto

It is a medieval-looking city with beautiful civic buildings, churches, a cathedral, and one of the oldest universities in the world.

Ponte di Rialto (The Rialto Bridge) is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice.

As one story tells it, the buildings are differently colored to help drunk fisherman find their way home without stumbling into the wrong house.

On my second day in Venice, the weather improved, and I took public transport to Piazza San Marco, or St Mark's Square in English

After being lost in the maze of streets and canals, I eventually found my accommodation, dumped my luggage, and ventured out to take these first images.

Matera is one of the oldest continuing human settlements on the planet, dating back to the Paleolithic 10th millennium BC

Only settled in the sixteenth century, Alberobello is famous for the round stone houses called Trulli,

Located in the south of Italy, on the "heel," is Lecce. Considered the "Florence of the South" for its Baroque architecture

A short train trip northeast of Napoli brings you to the town of Caserta, where the Royal Palace of Caserta is located.

It was Incredible to walk around this huge site, and just like the mosaics exhibition, a couple of days earlier

What struck me was how similar these ancient people were to us. Also, depictions of sea creatures could be found in facsimile at the local

Leaving Naples/Napoli, I took a train south, leaving the suburbs behind, and arrived at the coastal resort town of Sorrento,

Having left Sorrento by bus, traveling around some very tight, hair-raising, cliff-side bends I arrived in Amalfi on a cold, wet day

A short but harrowing bus ride from Amalfi where I was staying is Positano,