Arezzo 9/20/22

Arezzo is a city where much of the city was damaged during World War II. We walked the steep streets to the historic center and thankfully much of it was preserved. We visited three main piazzas.

The church of San Francesco contains frescos by Piero della Francesca that tell the Legend of the True Cross.

Judy and I hiked up to Piazza del Duomo. The building of the cathedral began in 1278.

Our next piazza is Piazza Grande. We found out that the movie La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) was filmed in Arezzo, with a scene here in this piazza.

We took a drive to a tiny town, Oliveto. We thought there was a museum there as it was used as a concentration camp for Italian Jews during WWII. We couldn’t find a museum, but we were greeted by a woman from her window with a cheery, Buona Sera! The town seemed very sparsely populated.

Oliveto home.