ANST - Sightseeing recommendations

[Mark.S Harris]

Greetings Ysabeau!

> I am planning a long trip to Italy this summer and I am looking for
> suggestions on little known yet historically significant places to go and
> see. We will be homebased near Pisa and will have a car. I have been
> reading the guide books but there has yet to be written a guide book for
> SCAdians -at least not that I've heard of.
> 
> So, any recommendations?

I took a look in the file Italy-msg in the CULTURES section of my Florilegium
and found this message. Unfortunately, it is the only one in there reviewing
tourist sites.

Hope this helps.
   Stefan li Rous
   stefan at texas.net
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From: 104310.1415 at CompuServe.com
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: travel suggestions-Italy
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 21:53:23 -0800

I spent this past summer in Italy, living in Siena (taking a language 
course at the University there) and travelling every weekend...all of 
this was on a college studnt's budget, as well.

Being partial, I definitely recommend Siena. The Contrada museums are 
the people's history collection...the period garb used for the Palio 
is authentic as it can get, and it's all there for us to see. Also, 
the entire town within the walls is medieval. It has the ambience.(I 
was a soaking sponge for two months!)

An Italian rail pass was a deal but also a pain as I couldn't use it 
on the faster trains without paying a supplement. (It worked out to be 
a deal, however.)

Youth hostels are great and the most inexpensive. I also used Lonely 
Planet's guide to Italy, which was very good at listing cheap hotels 
in safe areas. A warning about the book (my only gripe) is that the 
times for the museums and sites are wrong. This cost me my one chance 
to see inside St. Mark's (Venice) (Go there!!!!!) because I happilly 
arrived an hour late following my book's incorrect time. Oh well.

The Ducal Museum in Venice has a great armory exhibit and fascinating 
prisons with prisonor's graffitti from 1500 (for example).

If you have other questions for me, Ailith, you can eMail me 
(muirne at earthlink.net)
BUON VIAGGIO! CIAO, Muírne ní Chatain
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