It’s the start of a new day in Assisi. A chorus of church bells echoes off the well-scrubbed streets. Flowers overflow from the window boxes, cascading down pink stone walls. The Piazza del Commune, the town’s small historic center, is already beginning to fill with the day’s visitors. If Disneyland is the happiest place on Earth, then Assisi is a close sec (...)
The Last Word
Assisi 1943
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