As our classes finish at 1pm, it is very easy to slip into a town-centre cafe for an inexpensive lunch. One of our favourite places is the mis-appropriately named, ‘Cafe de Paris,’ which displays a handwritten menu outside advertising its dishes of the day, for either eight, or ten euros, and includes a cover charge, bread, water and coffee. Today we both had ten-euro meals, smoked salmon and fried potatoes for me (sounds strange but it was delicious) pasta, tomato sauce and meatballs for Mark. I also had a fresh fruit salad (to make up for the lack of vegetables). The bill came to €23.50, which you really can’t complain about.
After this, we decided to pop into a museum on the way home. With our museum cards, we can visit the main city museums as many times as we like, which means you don’t have to see everything in one go, unless you want to.
Our choice today was the Museo Della Musica in the the restored Palazzo Sanguinetti, featuring beautiful frescoes from the Napoleonic era.
The core of the collection of musical instruments, scores, and paintings was gathered by a Franciscan friar named Giovanni Battista Martini (1706-1784) who was also teacher to Mozart and Johann Christian Bach, youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach.
After leaving Italy, Bach moved to London in 1762, where he variously became known as ‘the London Bach’, ‘The English Bach’ and just ‘John Bach’.
It has two rows of strings, instead of pedals
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