Naomi wanted to go to Perugia for two reasons: the Baci chocolate
is produced there, and this fountain. She had heard about how
this fountain was newly restored and wanted to come and see it,
so we made a day trip to Perugia to check it out. They did a
really good job of restoring the fountain, as you can see in the
following photo.
This fountain is really clean. It was well worth the trip to
Perugia. It's practically the only thing that's not being
restored in Italy. They are having a massive restoration craze
right now to prepare for the Year 2000 party. St. Peter's in Rome
is completely covered up right now in preparation for that.
There was this really old well that supplied Perugia with it's
water up until a couple of hundred years ago. It was about 100
feet deep and the roof was constructed of these enormous blocks
of stone, weighing about 80 tons each! The Etruscans built the
well around 300-400 B.C. It was pretty cool.
This is Naomi and Jeff hanging out, in front of a nice Umbrian
landscape.