Walters Press: Italy Day 8: driving back to Rome through Deruta

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Italy Day 8: driving back to Rome through Deruta

Our flight was out of Rome the next day so we drove back the back way--through the famous paper-making town of Fabriano, over the mountains, into Umbria and south to Rome. We stopped at the Umbrian ceramic town of Deruta to find that everything was really expensive and tourist driven.

There was a beautiful duomo (church) in town.

From 12/27/11 Italy Day 8 driving back to Rome through Deruta

For our last night in Rome, we unknowingly booked a bed and breakfast that was owned by the daughter and brother of Marco, owner of Arco dei Tolomei, our host for the 3 days we were in Rome at the beginning of our trip.

The bed and breakfast is called Relais Teatro Argentina and it was equally as wonderful as the Arco dei Tolomei.

From 12/27/11 Italy Day 8 driving back to Rome through Deruta

I especially liked the windows in our room

From 12/27/11 Italy Day 8 driving back to Rome through Deruta

The Relais Teatro Argentina is located just off the Largo di Torre Argentina, a busy square with ruins of Pompey's theatre and four Republican Roman temples. A photo of the square from our trip to Rome four years before:

From Italy Honeymoon Day 12-Rome-Vatican, Pantheon and Spanish Steps

When we were there four years ago I noticed there were so many stray cats. I recently found out that it is actually a cat sanctuary called Roman Cats.

We had not stopped thinking about the delicious pizza we had at Pizzeria Ai Marmi when we had first arrived in Rome, so we went again!