1Spello

From the gates and arches to the ruins of a Roman amphitheater, remnants of Spello’s days as a Roman colony in the first century BC can be found everywhere.  

The residents here love their flowers, indulging in good-natured competition with neighbors about whose flower-bedecked stone home and property is most lovely. On the ninth Sunday after Easter, folks work all night to make more than 60 carpets made of posies for the Corpus Domini feast. The most ambitious among them craft replicas of religious artwork using only the petals and seeds.

 

 

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