Today was a day of exploration.  I think I found the village of Civitella to be the most interesting of all of the places we visited today.  This place has a stronghold fortress that was first built in the year 1182.  The village had outside walls and inner walls.  Moving forward in history there is a World War 2 memorial commemorating 176 villagers who were taken into the town square outside the church in 5’s and executed at the direction of Nazi commander Hermann Goring.  This was very sobering indeed and reminded us of how blessed we are.  Here’s a picture of the remains of the Stronghold in Civitella first built in 1182 and then the outside wall of the stronghold and the valley that the stronghold overlooks.

The outer walls of the city look like this

I will add the rest of the post later since I am getting bounced out of this site right now