Discovering Umbriano

So, this past weekend was a bit different but guess what, everything begun as usual.

We went for a walk in the woods – me, Matteo and his cousin Jacopo. We were up to make a low peak in Umbria, but ended hiking our way to a totally diffferent place, up to Umbriano, without even our backpacks.

Shirtless pleasure. Wind and some timid rainfalls.

The sky was so white that you could stand still with your eyes closed, then throw your head back until you feel the hair on your back and that inner thrill of exposing your whole neck, then open you eyes and imagine that you were hanged by your feet above an immense pond of boiled milk with a reversed perception of the gravity. Pure white.

Umbriano is the oldest town in Umbria, they says. An abandoned village in Val Nerina, people left it in the 50s, has been sold in 2007 – who knows who’s going to make what with it. By now, It’s still a “gost town”, as the official ghost site says. (Yes it has an official site – man, who doesn’t today?).

I can’t figure out how to rotate pictures to post some more vertical shots, they are all placed in a horizontal position, no matter what. Damn.

~ by Toto on July 14, 2008.