Tunnels and more tunnels …

A great downhill ride today .. did we have to pedal? Not much.

The sky clear and blue a lovely backdrop for the rugged, mountains that surround us today.  John counted 29 tunnels of varying lengths as we ride on the old railway path.  Not only are there tunnels here for bikes, there is also the main road and autobahn that have separate tunnels through the mountains.  What an engineering exercise that would have been.

We arrive in Venzone before lunch.  A medieval village that has been through a restoration when it was devastated by a series of earthquakes from May to September in 1976. Thankfully it had been classified as a National Monument in 1965, so it was deemed to be reconstructed, 8 years later Venzone was reborn.

Venzone was elected as the most beautiful village in Italy for the 2017 edition of Il Borge dei Borghi. 

We are stay on a farm stay only less that 1km from the old town, beautiful views of the mountains and the river just a walk away.

I thought I was looking through a magnifying glass when our meals arrived this evening.