The Pope is coming!!!!

The view from our balcony was the best

thing about the apartment...

SUNDAY, 27 June 2010 was to be a big feast day here in Corpo, for their patron saint. We are next door to a 999 year old Benedictine Abbey. They are very busy getting ready for the Pope’s visit next year for their millennium celebration (1011-2011). Sunday ended with fireworks and cannon shots. And every so often they peel their church bells.
                                                               

Our apartment was two floors and decorated to the nines with the nicest of everything. The inside was as modern and updated as the outside was historically gorgeous. The second floor was one bedroom and a full bath and laundry room. The main floor was a balcony off the beautiful little kitchen next to a dining area and livining room with the other bedroom and full bath on the street side of the apartment. In the picture below, on the right hand side of the building, the top two arched windows are our apartment.

The entire village is built around an 11 century Benedictine Abbey; the oldest in all of southern Italy, celebrating their millenium later this year.                                      Most of the day, we explored our little village and stayed low key while Rob and Beth caught up to European time. We had a delicious lunch at the hotel in our square outdoors on their gorgeously decorated terrace.