Another trip to Italy (Part6): Carpi

Tuesday, in the second week:
At Romanica, our italian language school, we have some visits every week. All we have to pay is for fares for transportation. In this week, we went to a small town called Carpi.

We meet at the station at 3 o'clock and Our teacher, Elena took us to Carpi. Carpi has 70,000 inhabitants and it keeps the 14th centuries' churches and palaces. In this visit, we had a retired person who explained us about the church and history of the city. In small towns, it is common to find some retired persons working as a volunteer guide. They usually guide us churches or other monumental building which are not opened to the public by their own interests. I wondered how wonderful life would be showing his or her town in sparetime after retirement. This could be only possible in a country like Italy!