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Published: September 5th 2015
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A visit to the resting place of two special people
The Annone Veneto cemetery is a very beautiful place with amazing family mausoleums and grave sites. It is a credit to the town and maintained to a high standard. The day started with another early start with taking Neil and Karilyn to the bus station in Portogruaro for a bus to the Venezia Airport where they would fly Rome and Palermo for the next part of their holiday. Later in the day we received a text to say they were in a good hotel with AC and no mosquitos so a good start. It was wasps in Austria and mosquitos here.
Later in the morning we went to the Annone Veneto Cemetery to visit the graves of Guilia and Giovanni. It is a truly beautiful cemetery with some magnificent granite tombs or mausoleums like small houses with multiple layers for family members. Others were family sites but still with superb granite tombstones with granite coverings. Other than these types of graves there were walls of several stories with large plaques for lettering and room for flowers. They are so much nicer and neater than our cemeteries which often look neglected and drab in places. This is a place of pleasant memories, colour and neatness. We were pleased to visit and remember these two people we knew only briefly.
We had coffee and cake at Annone Veneto which turned
out to be a much larger town than anticipated with excellent shops and facilities. They even had a bakery with bread that wasn’t white which seems to be unusual in this country.
We had lunch at Portogruaro with Piero, Pierina and Nico and also organised a train timetable for Daphne to get to Zurich to do some sightseeing and visiting for a few days.
Later, Pierina took us to a couple of small towns that are known for their historic beauty. First we visited Cordovado and later Valvasone. Cordovado had a small walled palace with gates at either end and surrounded by a moat. It seems to be occupied now by private houses. It was very quaint. Outside of this area was a very old church dating back to the 1400’s which was worth a visit. Much had been restored but there were still some faint old frescoes to be seen and old depictions of an artist’s perception of heaven and hell at the time.
Valvasone was a much larger old town and there seemed to be a lot of work going on to restore it to something special. Where the work is finished it is looking
very good with new cobbles and fresh walls. The area around an old water wheel had been completed. The old cathedral was worth visiting because of the fantastic pipe organ which is housed on a wall with doors that shut over it, but with paintings on the doors and sides. The newish cathedral outside the old town looks as if it has been built over a previous building as there is a spring, a well and huge rock to one side. It was worth visiting because the paintings inside were a modern interpretation of old themes and there is a big difference between the old and the new. There is a medieval festival happening soon in the area and it seems many towns will be part of the act as we’ve seen some of the preparations. It would have been great to have been able to attend one but the timing isn’t right.
All in all, a good evening spent seeing new places of beauty not visited before.
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