Small shrine under archway, Bertinoro, Italy

Tucked under an archway on a less-used path into the town, I found this small apparently-religious shrine.

Monastary Parapet, Bertinoro, Italy

Guarding the entrance to the Bertinoro Monastary, projecting out from the side of the main building, was this intriguing sloping parapet. It has clearly been refurbished to include a modern walkway, but I never found an accessible entrance onto it, which saddened me because the views from that walkway would have been lovely---and I always enjoy exploring odd architectural corners.

Villa-style house, Bertinoro, Italy

On an edge of town in Bertinoro, I saw this building stylistically invoking a classic Roman villa, built around an open atrium in its middle.

Lower Bertinoro, Italy

The lower town of Bertinoro, seen from an overlook in the middle of the town: again, notice that it's all basically around just one tightly packed road. Driving down the middle of that road, the walls of houses are tight together and you might be in the depths of any large city in Italy (or much of Europe), but from above and outside that illusion is shattered.

Countryside near Bertinoro, Italy

Another view into the Bertinoro countryside, to the cluster of communications equipment on the next steep hill, this one quite unpopulated.

Countryside near Bertinoro, Italy

Bertinoro stands at the Southern edge of the great fertile plain of Northern Italy, where it begins to climb into hills, then ultimately the Apennine Mountains. The land below the hill of Bertinoro is filled with farms and orchards going up and down their own steep slopes.

Steep Bertinoro alley, Italy

Another example of a wonderfully precipitous street in Bertinoro, stone on both the street and all the surrounding buildings.