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July 11, 2003

Dear Friends and Families,

Our first local excursion was to the tiny walled village of Filetto. We've seen a number of walled villages, towns, and cities by now, but here was one where it seemed like the town peasants had left only a day or two ago.

John and Marianne

The main gate to Filetto. Nowadays, there are doors and windows in the wall but it's not hard to imagine the original solid face to the outside.

The square in the center of town was completely deserted. Like that, it kept the sense of Filetto as a recently-abandoned medieval village.

However, there were colorful flowers around, showing that if deserted, the town had not been deserted long.

This monument to 20th Century war dead seemed out of place. In America, monuments this age are called "old" but, in Filetto, it was almost science fiction futuristic.

Along the outside wall, the dirt path could have been from a long-ago era.

I suppose these towers have looked out on these same hand-tended fields for a thousand years. Or more.

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	The main gate to Filetto. Nowadays, there are doors and windows in the wall but it's not hard to imagine the original solid face to the outside.		The square in the center of town was completely deserted. Like that, it kept the sense of Filetto as a recently-abandoned medieval village.
However, there were colorful flowers around, showing that if deserted, the town had not been deserted long.		This monument to 20th Century war dead seemed out of place. In America, monuments this age are called "old" but, in Filetto, it was almost science fiction futuristic.
	Along the outside wall, the dirt path could have been from a long-ago era.		I suppose these towers have looked out on these same hand-tended fields for a thousand years. Or more.