Ciao!
This past weekend, I took what can only be described as a random day trip to a random town. Freddy and I ventured out into the expanses of greater-Rome and wound up in...Saxa Raba or some other random town, where we were stranded for several hours...well, we were heading for Calcata and while only 30 km north of Rome, took some creative usage of public transport to get to, which yes, included being stranded for almost two hours in the middle of...nowhere.
But, lucky for us, we managed to turn the adventure around and finally ended up in Calcata, a small town which was abandoned in the early 20th century because of fear that the cliffs on which it stood were...unstable. The little town remained uninhabited until the 1960s when hippies and other free spirited Europeans decided that the beauty it had to offer was worth the risk. Calcata seems to have remained untouched by time, still filled with incense and randomly free spirited Italians. We wandered around this tiny town, talking to the many artists that fill the grottini which covered the cliff. We even somehow managed to be invited into the house of a "famous" artist, who had in fact designed many artistic pieces in the town. He told us about GPS art (not sure I really understand this concept, even with the translation) and the challenges of building megaliths--ah, teamwork.
On the way home, all we could say was "that was...interesting...and well, quite beautiful". Ah, adventures.
This past weekend, I took what can only be described as a random day trip to a random town. Freddy and I ventured out into the expanses of greater-Rome and wound up in...Saxa Raba or some other random town, where we were stranded for several hours...well, we were heading for Calcata and while only 30 km north of Rome, took some creative usage of public transport to get to, which yes, included being stranded for almost two hours in the middle of...nowhere.
But, lucky for us, we managed to turn the adventure around and finally ended up in Calcata, a small town which was abandoned in the early 20th century because of fear that the cliffs on which it stood were...unstable. The little town remained uninhabited until the 1960s when hippies and other free spirited Europeans decided that the beauty it had to offer was worth the risk. Calcata seems to have remained untouched by time, still filled with incense and randomly free spirited Italians. We wandered around this tiny town, talking to the many artists that fill the grottini which covered the cliff. We even somehow managed to be invited into the house of a "famous" artist, who had in fact designed many artistic pieces in the town. He told us about GPS art (not sure I really understand this concept, even with the translation) and the challenges of building megaliths--ah, teamwork.
On the way home, all we could say was "that was...interesting...and well, quite beautiful". Ah, adventures.
that looks incredible!
ReplyDeleteVery cool little town. So incredible how it's been carved from this cliff! Cool pix!
ReplyDeleteso nice, i'd like the "stand in the middle of...................NOWHERE!!!"
ReplyDeletemiss u sweatie
love the pics
a dopo