Last observations.

*Buying delicious Italian wine, grown in the region, not for export, leaving you with nary a headache in the morning, and costing less than 4 euros a bottle, is beyond wonderful.

*Preparing your own feast, with local products, bought at individual shops (macellaio/butcher; vedura/vegetable; pasticceria/bakery) in any hilltown you come upon,knowing that pointing at what you want, if the word in Italian can’t be retrieved, is met with a smile and the word supplied, all this at no extra charge.

And happening upon local ceremonies . Since we could not determine, from anyone, what this particular ceremony was about, I thought it aptly dubbed, by my friend David, to be the
Procession of Our Lady of the Upholstery. Worked for me.