This color silent home movie is about a trip to Italy. This is circa the 1950s.
Opening title: We enter northern Italy on a highway overhanging the Mediterranean Hillsides (:09). Italian seaside town (:21). Car with flowers goes by followed by a priest, a hearse, and mourners for the deceased (:34). Northern Italy; poolside at the Hotel Mediterraneo in San Remo; the tour group poses near the tour bus (1:03). Seaside San Remo (1:18). Genoa, a seaport in Northern Italy, the birthplace off Christopher Columbus; a statue of Columbus (1:40). Watch cutting and polishing of marble at Marina de Carrara (2:03). Town of Pisa; see the Baptistry, the Cathedral, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa (2:35). Florence, Italy, situated on both banks of the Arno River (2:55). In Florence, Giotta’s Campanile (the Bell Tower), The Cathedral, The Baptistry (3:19). Hill towns; Olive trees in Barberino; Grapes at Staggia Senes (3:51). Sienna, a hill town with many churches; people walk the streets (4:20). Bell Tower in Sienna (4:49). Cathedral in Sienna (5:10). In Sienna, the Piazza del Campo and Palazzo Publico (5:49). Corsa del Palio horse race; people in medieval garb; a man waves a flag (6:27). Sienna hotel (7:32). People walk through the town (7:55). Corsa del Palio horse race with people in medieval garb doing a procession (8:05). People play drums in the procession; wave flags as a huge crowd watches (10:16). Pigs in a field (11:37). Arezzo’s oleander lined streets (12:16). Perugia, Italy. Etruscan and medieval buildings (12:41). Towns of Todi then Prodo (13:08). Town of Orvieto and its gothic cathedrals (13:42).
