First stop today was another revisit Perugia, home of amongst other things, Perugina chocolate. Perugia is a large city and as it is on a hill has implemented a Mini Metro, a great little invention to transport people from the lower areas and parking spots into the historic town.
With this system, we were able to park in relative ease and then for only 3euro each get a return ticket. I do say with relative ease as somehow I did manage to get my self into the city's bus parking area and the only way out was through a boom gate. As I am not a bus I couldn't get out but thankfully was able to tailgate a bus who was heading out on his run.
Perugia is lovely and our original plan was to also do a tour of the Chocolate factory but when we got to the historic centre, decided to skip the tour and spend more time in the city.
So far all towns we have visited still have Christmas decorations in place and they look great, much better than some places I know in Australia!
Lunch today was at La Pasteria (Via Baldo, 5, 06100 Perugia) and was a winner. We started with and shared, a white pizza of four cheese and then followed with a pasta of sausage and black truffle in a cream sauce. Delizioso.
We also had some house wine (red) and it was lovely too, one thing is, the house wine is always great in Italy, I have never had a bad one.
This restaurant followed one of our rules for selecting a place to eat when travelling in a hill town where there can be a few tourists. Take a walk down the alleyway, step off the main square, the food will almost always be better and service will also be nicer than the rushed tourist traps.
It was now we were sure we made the correct decision to spend more time in the historic centre than make it a rushed trip in and out. More wondering was done and many photo opportunities were had.
For example today alone Katie and I took over 260 photos combined, don't worry I won't post them all but you're welcome to come for a slide night!
We left Perugia and headed to a recommendation from our hosts at LaMaesta, the hill town of Corciano.
We weren't sure what to expect, but were told it wouldn't take more than 1 hour to walk the streets and there is basically no opportunity for shopping.
Wow, is a word I heard Katie and my self-say a number of times walking these streets and laneways. This would be a great place for a wander in summer but for the Christmas period, the townsfolk fill the streets with statues and lifelike Christian settings. We were amazed and every corner we turned found another scene.
From here we were also able to see the start of a great sunset, but I knew a place just down the freeway on the lake which would do the sunset justice.
Torricella, is on the edge of Lago Trasimeno and normally is only visited by tourists heading out on joy boats in summer, however, we were among a number of others who had the same idea to catch the impressive sunset.
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