| Hotel Corsignano, Pienza - our home base for Alumni College in Tuscany
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| A typical street scene in Pienza, with geraniums in bloom (they were everywhere!)
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| The promenade along the old city wall of Pienza, overlooking the Val d'Orcia
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| View the promenade near the Cathedral, overlooking the Val d'Orcia
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| Scenic overlook on the Pienza promenade
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| The Val d'Orcia seen from the Pienza city wall
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| Deborah DeSimone, with the Val d'Orcia in the background
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| Pienza Town Hall on the Piazza Pio II, the main square of the town
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| The Pienza Cathedral, from the Town Hall portico
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| Palazzo Piccolomini, the palace of Pope Pius II (Pio II, c. 1460)
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| Looking up at the papal apartments from the courtyard of Palazzo Piccolomini
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| A trattoria on Piazza Pio II, looking west along Corso Rosselino, the main
street of the old city
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| Looking east from the grand piazza along Corso Rosselino
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| Looking west from the grand piazza along Corso Rosselino
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| Deborah at the town well in the Piazza Pio II
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| Deborah in front of a trattoria on Corso Rosselino
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| Deborah in the rose garden of the Palazzo Piccolomini (the first time it was open
to the public in over 20 years)
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| Pienza on the hill above, from the bus driving through the Val d'Orcia
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| A choir preparing for the "Second Pienza Choral Review" in the Chiesa
del San Francesco, Pienza
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| The Tuscan countryside (and our new villa? stay tuned!)
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| Thunderclouds over the Altesano vineyards
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| The Cathedral of Siena
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| Inside the Cathedral of Siena, looking at the main altar and rose window
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| Under the main dome of the Cathedral of Siena
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| Chapel of the Virgin in the Cathedral of Siena, with two statues by Bernini
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| Heads of the popes, in the Cathedral of Siena
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| Inside the Piccolomini Library in the Cathedral of Siena, dedicated to Pope Pio II
(note the detail of the dress of the day, including the fancy footwear)
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| Bob Altizer in "Il Campo," the main square of Siena, where the Palio is run twice a year
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| Brother John, a defrocked priest who wanders the catacombs beneath Siena
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| Bob and Deb, happy campers on the bus
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| The standard postcard first view of Florence from Piazzale Michelangelo
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| The hinder of David overlooking the city from Piazzale Michelangelo
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| The Doors of Paradise (copies of the originals by Michelangelo), on the
Baptistry at Florence, with Rita Coulter and our guide Emma in the foreground
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| Il Duomo, The Cathedral of Florence
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| German tourists outside Il Duomo, one with a really cool hair dye job
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| The tomb of Machiavelli, in the Cathedral of Florence
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| The tomb of Rossini in the Cathedral of Florence
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| The tomb of Galileo in the Cathedral of Florence
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| Bob and Deborah on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence
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| The Church of Sant'Antimo, founded by Charlemagne in AD 781
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| The cloister of the church of Sant'Antimo
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| Another view of the cloister of the church of Sant'Antimo
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| Our group, complete with UCLA banner, in front of Sant'Antimo
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| One of the Etruscan Gates of Perugia
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| Looking down a steep street in Assisi
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| The Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi
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| In the distant valley floor as seen from Assisi, the Church of Saint Mary, Queen of the Angels (the namesake for Los Angeles, CA)
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| Un gatto italiano
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| (Yawn) Yet another breathtakingly gorgeous scene of the Tuscan countryside
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| The artist wasn't allowed to sign this painting, so he just put himself in it!
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| From the top of the town hall in Montepulciano
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| Our bus
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| Mauro, our bus driver
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| Graduation party at the Hotel Corsignano
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| Francesco, hotel manager and part-time bartender
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| Yvonne Vick and Jennie Jing
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| Ray Jing, Shirley Leick, Jean Korf, Betty Taylor
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| Tom Koppa and Eleanor Meyer
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| Jeannie Jing, Jeanette Wong, Ladeana Young, Leo Young
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| Deanna McMahon
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| Bob Altizer and Deborah DeSimone
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| Shirley Leick, Don Perlick, Pierre and Nancy Joujon-Roche, Joyce Perlick
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| Veda Veach, Karen and Dave Taylor
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| Ray Jing, Janyce Anker
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| Nancy McClaskey, Ben Lading
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| Margie Schwartz and John Irving
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| Joe and Pat Ward
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| Cori Tahara, Jon Sims, Jeanette Wong
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| John, Deborah, Anna, Ben, Cori, Jon, and Jeanette
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| Jon, Jeanette, and Cori -- Thanks a million, Jeanette!
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