Beautiful sunny morning at Castiglione del Largo but it soon clouded over as we headed south on the  short one hour journey to Todi. The town is accessed form the public parking area via this funicular railway.

The town is set on top of a high hill with amazing views in all directions to the surrounding Umbrian countryside.

The main square in Todi is generally considered to be one of the finest medieval piazzas in all of Italy.

Here's a view of the square looking from the other end (towards the church).

The church is nothing much on the inside but it's much worse looking the other way as the end wall is covered by an appallingly bad copy of a Michaelangelo fresco.

 

Having had a good look around Todi we moved on south east to the mountain village of Ferentillo. It was getting a bit murky by the time we arrived.

Much of the village is built on an almost vertical slope.

What had drawn us here was the church of San Stefano which has a number of mummified bodies in its crypt. Basically if anyone died round here who the authorities thought were unsuitable to bury in the cemetery they put them in the crypt and the environmental conditions there were such that instead of rotting away they became mummified. Apparently amongst others there is a chinese couple in there who had come to Umbria on holiday and died of cholera. Unfortunately the crypt closes at 4.30 pm and we arrived there at 4.31 pm. As tomorrow is Sunday the crypt will be closed for "Holy Mass" so unfortunately we will probably miss out on seeing the mummies.

The weather has turned really nasty this evening - it's pouring with rain and blowing a gale - so we're parked in the village for the night with the heating in the van turned up high.