I arrived in Orte early in the morning from Rome, with the plan to spend a couple of hours looking around here before going to Rimini. It didn’t really go to plan, but here’s a religious statue outside the railway station. As a warning for the rest of this post, don’t expect much of interest to happen here….
The railway station is in a new part of Orte, but I thought I’d walk the 30 minutes to the old city. However, I discovered that although Google Maps thought that I could walk it, there was no pavement beyond this point and there wasn’t even much of a pavement at this point.
I’m not walking along that and a quick scan of Google Streetview showed that it was unwalkable with no path. So, I abandoned that plan thinking this is remarkably unusual for a town to have forgotten to connect itself to the railway station. Although not entirely unique…..
The River Tiber is in there somewhere.
I was now very much struggling to find anything interesting, but here’s a nice sculpture.
And back to the railway station, so all rather an anti-climax. I’m pleased to note that the rest of my Italian adventure was somewhat more interesting than this. I accept that I could have got on a bus to Orte if I had time to work all that out, but I didn’t much fancy missing my train as I was stuck waiting for a bus back.