Monday 16 April, 2007
Sunday
If you go into San Nicolo, an extremely beautiful tiny church you will find a Signorelli (a Renaissance Cortona painter) above the altar.
Then, if you ask the caretaker to show you the second Signorelli she presses a button and Presto!
After that little surprise I walked half way down the hill with my friend Anna (an Australian studying in Pisa). Here's the view of Cortona from the modern cemetary below the town.
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