Would you like to live in a cave?

For thousands of years people have lived in this area, sometimes in homes carved into the tuff volcanic rock. The Etruscans (pre-Roman) lived in this part of Italy and there has been a lot of archaeology done here. We walked through many trails and quarries cut deep into the rock. Their tombs were also carved into the rock, called necropolis (city of the dead).

We have three more days of walking, then our group of eight disperses to the four winds. I will be going back to Belgium on Monday. We will have travelled 405 kilometers.

I have learned a great deal about Italy, its landscape, culture, history, and food, and had the privilege of doing so with a wonderful group of people.