timeless hill towns of central italy We joined throngs of people pounding the pavements of these picturesque medieval and renaissance towns in the searing heat. The beauty is still timeless view images of: sparkling Byzantine mosaics of Basilica San Vitale in Ravenna, Gradara, Gubbio, Perugia, Siena, Urbino and San Gimignano. We sometimes consider how people in those times would have lived such a hard life, with little of the comforts we have today. But what a beautiful envir