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Fiesole is not the friendliest place but i went there to see the ancient theater and temple which is something one wishes to do alone and in silence. Further more there is a hell of a view if you take the walk to parco montecerci. Also the tv reception at the bnb was great and we fell asleep listening to a Louis Armstrong concert from back in the days which was hip. Lastly the local orchestra was playing a concert in one of the churches i had never heard anything like that in person and everyone there seemed very content which was a real slice of life.

As i said fiesole is not the friendliest place. The people of Fiesole could claim with some justification that they have tourism fatigue but they, unlike the vast majority of Italians i encountered seemed not to want me there, which is probably bad news for them because tourism and old money are all there seemed to be. The lone exception was one man who was about fifty five or sixty who asked me in lieu of the silence how i had heard of the pastry shop and why i had come to Fiesole. I told him about how i wept and washed my face in the crystal clear water that was flowing down the walls of the ancient theater and thanked the great spirit for having gotten me there safe. Most people would have walked away and checked their pockets but he listened and said yes its nearly four thousand years old and told me we were in the best pastry shop around then said ciao the way they always do. So give them a chance they may just need a reason to live up to that guys example.