The Awesomest Thing on Our Trip

As we came out of the Forum, we heard Italian music blasting from somewhere. We went looking for it, because it sounded like something fun was happening. We found the source of the music in front of a church in the square. It looked like this.



That's a wooden tower with a papier-mâché facade. And there's a band perched on the tower, with all their equipment, amps, speakers, etc.





The band was doing traditional music, I think, including Volare (which we also heard a gondolier singing in Venice). They also did a traditional Italian version of "Obladi Oblada" and of "The Sound of Silence". Sometimes, a big crowd of people would pick the tower up and bounce them to the rhythm. In two hours, they moved about 50 feet. Anyway, it was just one of those wonderful things that you run across on a trip, if you're lucky. I took a short video to give you an idea.