Arriving and seeing Motta Camastra for the first time was so much camera-ready fun, that we took lots of pictures on our first walk through town.
I hope you enjoy this mountain village as much as we did. (I’ll restrain myself and only upload a few. I’m sure to add many more in days to come.)
First, narrow roads and walkways. The first picture is the main road into town (and yes, they do drive cars on it, although the (small) cars take the entire road in most places). The second picture is of the main street from our balcony. The third picture is a narrow walkway to houses off the main street.
Being built on a mountain, you can expect stairs and stairs and stairs. Up the stairs, down the stairs!
But, being built on a mountain, the views are spectacular. First, the views from our balcony, from inside our apartment looking out the window and then from outside on the small balcony.
We walked down the narrow road near sunset to a lookout point somewhere in the village and got these wonderful views of the valley below, with the Alcantara river running through.
The statue above is of a man called Carmelo Grassi. If we can figure out the sign behind him correctly, he is a writer. I would guess he either wrote about Motta Camastra or was from the village. I decided he was the guardian of the lookout point.(Update: Later research confirms he is a writer; we have a history of Motta Camastra in our house that he wrote–written in Italian, of course).
In the next post, I put up some pictures of my first good view of the spectacular volcano, Mt. Etna. What a beautiful mountain.
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