As we were leaving Villa Poggiano this morning, Kimberley saw an iron dragon hanging off the side of the main building. We discovered that this was the work of a local blacksmith.
To track him down, we set off for Pienza and the Biagiotti blacksmith shop. It was closed, but Kimberley asked a neighbour and we discovered that there was a retail shop for their work in the Pienza square.
We parked and set off to find the shop. We found it along with one of the Biagiotti brothers. We got a door knocker and the cockatrice candle holder. We had them shipped to Canada.
Next we went to the cathedral, which at least didn't have an entrance fee.
Then we grabbed lunch at a local restaurant. I had a veggie spaghetti, which was really good and I wound up replicating it a few nights later when we were cooking dinner.
We then found Barbican House, where we were supposed to spend the rest of our vacation.
Unfortunately, it was a dud. We shopped for groceries at the great Conad store, but really, we weren't going to spend any more time at this place. Nice grey and white cat, though.
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