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New day trip - The Piero della Francesca Trail.
>> Piero della Francesca was an Early Renaissance painter from Sansepolcro (1415 - 1492). The Piero della Francesca Trail starts with his best known work, The Legend of the True Cross fresco cycle in Arezzo, and goes on to smaller frescoes in Monterchi (The Pregnant Madonna) and Sansepulcro (The Resurrection), ending with a painting in Urbino (The Flagellation). <<
I remember reading about this in the novel Summer's Lease by John Mortimor (1988) and wrote about it on ST. We did the trail in the late 1990s, but it took several visits to Arezzo before we saw the frescoes because they were being restored.
On our September trip we are going to do this trail again. We fly into Rome and will overnight somewhere in southern Tuscany. Then we will visit Arezzo, Monterchi and Sansepulcro on our way to Le Marche. If we don't make all three places on the Saturday, we will visit the ones we missed the day we drive from Le Marche to Umbria. We are staying near Urbino for 9 nights, so can see the last stop on the trail easily.
I will book our visit to the Arezzo frescoes online before we go.
Has anyone seen any of these lately? Any advice?
>> Piero della Francesca was an Early Renaissance painter from Sansepolcro (1415 - 1492). The Piero della Francesca Trail starts with his best known work, The Legend of the True Cross fresco cycle in Arezzo, and goes on to smaller frescoes in Monterchi (The Pregnant Madonna) and Sansepulcro (The Resurrection), ending with a painting in Urbino (The Flagellation). <<
I remember reading about this in the novel Summer's Lease by John Mortimor (1988) and wrote about it on ST. We did the trail in the late 1990s, but it took several visits to Arezzo before we saw the frescoes because they were being restored.
On our September trip we are going to do this trail again. We fly into Rome and will overnight somewhere in southern Tuscany. Then we will visit Arezzo, Monterchi and Sansepulcro on our way to Le Marche. If we don't make all three places on the Saturday, we will visit the ones we missed the day we drive from Le Marche to Umbria. We are staying near Urbino for 9 nights, so can see the last stop on the trail easily.
I will book our visit to the Arezzo frescoes online before we go.
Has anyone seen any of these lately? Any advice?