May 18th, 2020 This is a #nowordsneeded post. You just need to click on play; then open up your eyes, take a deep breath and fill up your heart with Beauty. Enjoy and share the two brand new TV commercials by the Umbria Region! Green, lovely, genuine, friendly, beautiful Umbria is waiting for you. Because […]
For posterity: Italy, Umbria, Todi, May 14th, still stucked in Covid-19 quarantine. We are living a first, feeble Phase 2 but on Monday, May 18th, we will enter the real Phase 2; that means going around without self-certification – but only within the region borders -, visiting relatives and friends, and some other “freedoms” but […]
Collevalenza is a tiny village not far from Todi – about 4 miles -, belonging to the Municipality, and quite famous in Italy as a pilgrimage site thanks to the Sanctuary of Merciful Love. Founder and beating heart of both the order and the sanctuary is the Blessed Mother Speranza, a charismatic woman and nun […]
Many people visiting Todi don’t expect to find out that our town is the hometown of one of the most famous and important Italian poets; Jacopone da Todi. Jacopone was born in Todi around 1230, he joined the Franciscan order when he was 48, and he is considered among the fathers and founders of our […]
I have always loved to go to Todi’s public library to read and study there, with no noise but the sound of the centuries still echoing in that historic building – once a Franciscan monastery- . Our Lorenzo Leonj library is quite a big “local branch” which boasts many old and precious books which can’t […]
