Italy - Jesi's girl Part Due 2025-05-20

 

Since we stayed in a B&B, they offer breakfast. Since this is a one-off and not part of larger place, they had plenty of juice, milk (yes, they have shelf stable liquid milk here), bread, butter, jam on the table and at 8:30am (on the dot) they brought us 2 brioche (croissant); one with marmalade and one plain. Delish! Fortunately, checkout time was late - up to 14:00 so we were able to leave our day packs and explore before our 14:25 train back to Florence.

Although the day before had been hot - thank goodness there was air conditioning in the apartment - the day dawned cool and breezy.  First stop - Cattedrale San Settimo. For such a small parish, this church was well appointed. It spoke of it's more working class economics while also being in keeping with the original and restorative efforts. The door was amazing, telling the story of Christ's birth on one side and death on the other. The church dates back to the 13th century.

We were lucky enough to step inside this beautiful space while the organist was practicing. The music filled this enormous space for something short of half of an hour. Organ music in a church setting is so inspiring.

We found a most fascinating museum - Palazzo Pianetti which combines a ground floor archeological exhibit, a first floor of medeivel and renaisance art, and a second floor of contemporary art. As a former palace of its time, the ceilings on the first floor were completely over the top. These figures may look three dimensional, but with clever shading aided by current lighting, the flat images seem to jump off the wall.

The museum contains works by Lotto as well as these fabulous apothecary jars. There were 3 sizes and were stunning to see side by side.

These were Stacey's 2 favorite art pieces from the rest of the exhibit.

Sights and street art:

Again, Iesi is a wonderful town with a major pedestrian street, and delightful 'hide and reveal' walking. We left there having enjoyed it's riches while also realizing for more permanent housing, this city is just too far south - hot, humid and mosquito laden. Admittedly, we've also become spoiled at our apartment in Florence as the owner has installed a slider screen on the balcony doors and screens in the bedroom for fantastic crossflow and for some of us, a little too cool environment.  We'll see what June brings ;)