HILL TOWNS OF ITALY

I've been wandering around all these beautiful hill towns of Italy for the past few weeks and I just can't believe how beautiful they are.  There's all those Roman underground passageways, the arches, the dept of the buildings.  In Perugia, there is an escalator that goes upwards through all the levels of Porticos, passageways, arches, caves and stone to reach todays street levels.  In Assisi something similar just not as deep and profound.  On top each village and hill is crowned by some type of fortification, many churches, higgely piggely houses, loads of flowers and plants, stone steps descending and ascending beckoning for exploration, a painting on every corner.  The whole area looks like a set for a Hollywood film with a young Rosanno Brazzi waiting for a Katherine Hepburn around every corner to do a remake of Summer Holiday if I remember the name right, could be wrong since it was made a long time ago but how romantic it was.   I've taken so many pictures and they will all blend in together with no hope of doing justice to these villages and cities that walk one back to Etruscan and later to Roman times.
I'm now in Spello, a town I never heard of.  I wandered through it last night and heard that there was a free concert of medieval music in a palace courtyard.  I was also attracted to the area by the sound of a man playing Irish music on a whistle and I saw that he also had pipes in his bag.  I hadn't heard trad music for weeks so hung around until it was too late to move on so just slept in a parking lot.  What another grand place.  Today I spent in Assisi, went there very quickly by train from here and am now back thinking of an apertitivo up at a fun Bar in town with lots of nibbles.
There is quite a heat wave in Italy this week that makes one very thirsty indeed especially since all these village streets climb upwards but oh the views.  See a few below.
The people in this little town are just going out around 10 pm and the children were out in full force in the playgrounds when I passed last night

Those Etruscans loved to live high up

Etruscan caves/burial sites

All deep underground

Still down deep

Almost midnight, having fun.

about 11.30 pm.  Mostly people just stroll, have a gelato, stop at a bar for a wine spritz while women sit on chairs outside their doors and chat with the neighbours.