Arezzo

No driving today, my good little car deserves a day off, I will just spend the day walking in Arezzo, and trying to discover as many treasures as possible.

 

The Piazza Grande is the most noteworthy medieval square in the city, opening behind the 13th century Romanesque apse of Santa Maria della Pieve. Once the main marketplace of the city, it has a sloping pavement in red brick with limestone geometrical lines.

That's what I would call a good breakfast, if not a very healthy one ;-)

This is Guido d'Arezzo, a Benedictine monk who lived in the 11th century, and created musical notation. He completed that revolutionary innovation, which changed the history of western music, allowing the preservation of traditions through writing. To him, we owe the refinement of the system of musical notation on lines, from which modern musical writing on the pentagram derives, the final Anglo-Saxon structure which uses the 7 letters of the alphabet, from A to G, and a method for teaching music that reduced the training time of an ecclesiastic cantor from 10 years to one.

 

 

 

But Arezzo is also the main film location for one of my favorite movies. I will give you a hint: "Buongiorno Principessa!".

The last formal visit of the day will be for the Roman amphitheater and its archaeological museum (a very good one, where I learnt plenty of things).