Sulmona

We decided to take the sceninc route back to Avezzano through the countryside instead of taking the Autostrada. What an experience. We must have taken at least 10 wrong turns but one good thing about Italy is that there are numerous signs at every intersection pointing you to nearby towns and villages. The key is to figure out which one is next on the map, follow the signs to it, and then to make the appropriate turn to the next one before going into the actual town center which is usually a long windy drive to the top of a hill where the castle or fortress sits. We stopped in the town of Sulmona to explore a bit and have dinner since the travel guide informed us that it had a lot of older and particularly well preserved buildings. The photo shows me standing in the Piazza Garibaldi.