Day Two in Tuscany, we took a 30-minute drive to Volterra, another beautiful, old Tuscan town, set atop a hill. The drive between the towns was gorgeous and we stopped several times just to click the camera over the rolling hills of olive trees and grape vines. Volterra is best known (to me at least) as the fictional town in the Twilight books/movies where the enemy vampire clan, the Volturi, live. We made it out of Volterra with all of our blood intact, but not before we saw some Roman, and even Etruscan ruins. Below (top picture) is the ruins of a Roman Bath that the Romans built using the stones from the ampitheatre (bottom two pictures). At some point, the townspeople actually said to one another, "Culture and art....or......warm baths?" The warm bath won and down went the theater!
Below: Left, a typical Italian street scene of scooters. Top right, baiting the Volturi, nothing happened. Bottom right, some pretty old church.
Below: just some random shots of this beautiful old town. The clocktower above city hall where fictional Edward, fictionally tried to commit vampire suicide.
Left 2 pictures below of an Etruscan arch, built in the 4th century B.C. and the only Etruscan city gate still standing today. It used to have the heads of Zeus and his two sons, but now they just look like blobs.
We were walking along and Emily sees this yellow car and starts screaming "It's Luigi! It's Luigi,"a character from the Cars movies who really does look just like this car, so we had to take her picture with it.
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