<x-rich><excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>I've been twice in Italy, in Toscany, looking for sundials. I just found two sundials in Firenze, that is all !!
I don't understand this. </smaller></fontfamily></excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller> </smaller></fontfamily>In Umbria right next doors, sundials are common enough. Often a bit decrepit and not in the most obvious places, but they're there. Two hypotheses: (a) you're not seeing them -- happens to all of us -- or (b) Tuscany, richer than Umbria, made away with more of these relics of a bygone time. I don't know Tuscany that well, but do remember seeing one in Pitigliano (Grosseto province); I'll try to dig up the probable photo. Bill Thayer 41N53 87W38 col cuore a 42N59.5 12E42.4 alt.313m http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/I/home.html </x-rich>
