civita, italy

We owe so many of our awesome experiences on this trip to our Rick Steves guidebook. He lists so many out of the way and interesting places, it's amazing. Civita was another one of those places. We went to Civita as a day trip from Orvieto because it was only about an hour bus ride away. Maybe the coolest thing about Civita was it's location. It's tiny, with only 14 residents, and it sits atop this huge rocky hill. It looks like it belongs in some scary movie with lightning flashing around it or something, haha. We actually had to take the bust to the city called Bagnoregio, and then from Bagnoregio walk up this big long walkway thing to reach Civita. It was rainy, which sucked.. but since it was so small, we didn't spend that long there anyways.

Civita was so charming! It was pretty much a ghost town, and most of the shops were closed down, most likely for the winter. We wandered all around, and this old man invited us into his yard which had a great view point. He had this weird orange tree thing in his yard (except they weren't oranges and I don't know what they were!) which looked really cool. As we were leaving he held out his hand and it turned out he wanted a fee for his little favour, haha. Oh well, we each gave him a euro and that was that. It was a cheap sighsteeing day for us overall and if a euro was all it cost us then that's a pretty good day!

We went to the grocery store before catching the bus back and got a roasted chicken for lunch. We sat and ate it on the bench at the entrance to the store..hehe. I miss things like always having a table to eat on!