Trains in Italy can take you to interesting and relatively unfrequented places. Regular ticket prices have increased again this year, but my favorite offer from last year has remained unchanged. It's called Italy In Tour and with the ticket you can travel on regional trains for three days wherever you want.
I wanted to visit the castles where Philip II of Acaja spent the last months of his life, which I mentioned in another article (Once Upon a Time, a Brave Count Built a Fortress), and then on the next day, I wanted to go to the sea. Unfortunately, the sea was not reachable due to construction work in that direction, so I decided to go to a city where the roads from France arrived, Susa.
Honestly, I wasn't ready for the visit: I usually read everything I could to avoid missing the interesting things on the spot. But this time it was a spontaneous visit.
Many small towns in Italy are very curious: you leave the train station and see a modern neighborhood (first photos in this article). Take a few steps and you are in the 14th-15th century. You exit than these two or three streets that often also have porticoes (not only to protect the citizens, but to increase the area occupied by the upper floors of the building because space inside the city walls was limited).
Many streets in ancient cities are so narrow that we can't even get through. This was very important because early medieval cities were practically fortresses and a narrow street could easily be blocked with whatever was under your hands. There aren't even windows up to the second floor, and the ones that are there are normally made recently.
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