Arezzo

We spent the day in Arezzo where the highlight was a visit to the Basilica di San Francesco which has a chapel decorated with Piero della Francesca’s cycle of “The History of the True Cross” frescoes. 

First we went to the The Piazza Grande the medieval square where the stands were still being dismantled after last weekend’s jousting competition.

We briefly popped into Santa Maria della Pieve

Then to the Duomo on top of the town which has a 15th-century fresco of Mary Magdalene by Piero della Francesca and the tomb of Pope Gregory X.

And then to the Basilica di San Francesco.

And we wandered around Arezzo:

Back at the villa Grant, John and Doug did the first bbq and Katherine and Siobhan did salads