Sunday 7 August 2016

Where the Pope Stopped for Coffee
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Tuscan Bliss


After-Dinner Coffee
Espresso in enamel cup
Sosta del Papa
Barberino Val d'Elsa


Tuscan Views
Stopping by the roadside
6 August 2014
Images and Text © by Merisi

Note:
The true story behind Pope Pius VII's "coffee stop":

"La Sosta del Papa is a small hamlet of Barberino Val d'Elsa,
located on the street Via Cassia state just before with the municipal boundary with Poggibonsi.
Known locally as the piss of the Pope took the name from a curious and fun fact of daily life
that saw, in spite of himself, Pope Pius VII on June 2 1813.
It is said that the Pope, during the long journey to Rome back from France
where he had been deported by order of Napoleon Bonaparte,
were caught in this area by a sudden physiological need."
More @ -> La Sosta del Papa

9 comments:

  1. I'm sure the Pope would have preferred that little detail not getting out back in the day!

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    1. In fact, It's a miracle no shrine was built there. ;-)

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  2. Lovely pictures Merisi, Tuscany looks fab in that view and a interesting story about the Pope...

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    1. Tuscany is beautiful, especially off the beaten path.

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  3. How funny. Well, popes are human too. :)

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    1. Sometimes, divine intervention does not arrive in time! ;-)

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  4. Good story -- better than the boring old Washington slept here!

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    1. *smile*
      In Austria it's Napoleon who's been sleeping around (and unfortunately pillaging, too).

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  5. love it .. anything to make 'them' seem more human

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