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We are in Friber and Chini.

We are in Friber and Chini.

That was our friend, Philipo, and when I was a pilot, one of our pilgrimages yesterday,

stopped at Rocca Pia, the famous spot where Costante Giro d'Anglott curtailed and ended his 1921 Giro.

So a richard d'Anglott, when he saw the picture of you with your arms and the sign of a cross.

What was the question? Where are we?

We are in Assisi and we are in the shadow, literally in the shadow of the famous, the very, very famous

Basilica, the San Francisco, the San Francis of Assisi's Basilica, which was built in the 13th century.

It's this hill that we are looking at. It used to be called the Hill of Hell because criminals in Assisi were put to death there.

And when San Francis was what was canonized, they decided to make a hill of the color of the Paradees,

or the Hill of Paradise instead. And they started building this incredible Basilica, which we might talk a little bit more about later.

It's an incredible spot we have here in our hotel for the rest of the day tomorrow, two nights here.

As you say, down just beneath the old town of Assisi, we'll be wandering into there a little bit later.

We're in Umbria and it's a very typical Umbrian scene isn't it?

It's very bright and sunny evening. The hills kind of hazy in the distance.

Paruja just over there, you and I both spent time in Paruja in the distant past. And Assisi from Paruja, very visible.

And yet here we are just beneath it and it doesn't seem that high. And yet there are these plains here.

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