I'm kind of on posting spree now because I have access to wifi and a bit of free time on my hands so don't get used to frequent posts. After Caserza we moved a couple of miles on to Savignone to stay with some other cousins. If you remember to the family tree in the Caserza post (i.e. go back to that post if you don't remember) Peter 1 had two children who stayed near Genoa: Giuseppe and Maria. Maria had at least two daughters, Angela and Rosietta, who now live in Savignone and we are staying at Angela's daughter Sandra's house in the province. Aside from a couple of more family meals we actually got stuff done the last day. Sandra and her sister Valeria took us to Voltaggio, a nearby town, It's a typical ancient but still inhabited ancient town (at least to me) with 500 year old buildings right next modern recreation facilities. I think the reason we were there was to go to a castle where we could see all of Genoa and the sea (and because it's really old and why wouldn't you want to go to a castle) but we didn't end up doing it. We went to a cafe, stood in front of the church, walked around, got lost, said hello to the dogs in the big gardens, dodged the cars that drove much too fast, and then walked back to the car. The town has concerts and shows and, not movie theaters per se, but they show movies and lo and behold next weekend its Young Frankenstein. I saw the musical version of it two days before left.
After Voltaggio we drove around with apparently no destination in my mind and ended up at the archeological site of Libarna which was an ancient Etruscan city of around the 3rd to 4th century b.c., was discovered again before most of California was settled and is a tourist attraction now. The site is a Theater, an amphitheater ( first picture) and two houses ( probably more houses but the archeologists divided it up that way and who is to argue with them). One of the mosaic floors in the dining room was preserved so I got super excited as I wrote a paper on that last year. Got to run..
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