On yet another gorgeous Indian summer day we left after a late breakfast for Norcia to enjoy a typical lunch and to stock up on some local products. We often drive up to Norcia throughout the year, but NEVER fail to go in mid-November to enjoy the fall colors surrounding the ancient hill towns, the babbling creeks in the Valnerina...and the art and gourmet shops in Norcia itself.
snow on the mountains behind the church of Saint Benedict
Romanesque portal of Saint Benedict
cobalt blue skies above the campanile of the Comune
Inbetween admiring the art and shopping for our cured meats we had lunch at the Boscaiolo: aged local pecorino toasts, zuppa di farro and Casteluccio lentils with hearth cooked sausage followed by a strong espresso
traditional shops owned and managed by the same families for generations
one gourmet shop after another
every shape and type of cured and aged wild boar, deer and pork
late afternoon sun on our drive home
