Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Summer: Lucca: San Francesco/IMT

 photograph  and copyright by manfredi bellati

Summer: Lucca: San Francesco/IMT.  The impressive restoration of the courtyard of the ex-convent was inaugurated recently next to the Church of San Francesco in  the historic center of Lucca and will be the headquarters of the university campus IMT, Alti Studi di Lucca. IMT is a graduate school dedicated to doctoral and post doctoral education and research, provides five different PhD programs.


 photograph  and copyright by manfredi bellati

Summer: Lucca: San Francesco Church.  There is always food involved. A photo of a fresco of the Sodoma in Monte Oliveto Maggiore was in an exhibition in the Church of San Francesco and represents early sixteenth century Benedictine Monks sitting down to a meal in the refectory.