As I mentioned yesterday, my plan was to spend today in Modena, a town in Emilia-Romagna (less than 2 hours from Ravenna by train), famous for balsamic vinegar, as well as Ferraris and Maseratis. What I hadn't considered was that a massive earthquake struck Italy not too long ago. There wasn't any visible damage or anything (I have no idea how badly Modena got it), but just about every church I saw was closed, as was the museum I was hoping to go to (it houses numerous illuminated manuscripts. So, I got there and had very little to do. On the plus side, I had a FABULOUS lunch, at this place:
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Trattoria Aldina, on the second floor |
I had Tortellini in a Ragu sauce, thin sliced roast beef with some sort of delicious dressing, a salad, and fresh fruit with a scoop of vanilla gelato on top, as well as some Sangiovese and an espresso. Absolutely wonderful! Had I known everything else in the city would be closed I would have just gone out to a nice restaurant here in Ravenna, but oh well. The town itself was nice anyway. Here are a couple pictures I snapped as well:
So, all in all, very little to report today. But tomorrow it's off to Rome, so it's probably for the best that I didn't walk for hours and hours today, because I certainly will from tomorrow until Monday.
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