Field Trips

I went on two all-day field trips for art history this weekend, Friday to Siena and San Gimignano and Saturday to Pisa and Lucca. In Siena we saw Saint Catherine of Siena's head--apparently she was buried in Rome, which pissed the Sienese off (it's THEIR patron saint, after all) so they tried to steal her back but all they could get was her head. That was cool, maybe a little gross. Not decayed though--more about that later. In Pisa we of course saw the leaning tower--i'll post a touristy picture of me holding it up later. And in Lucca, the best of the four towns in my opinion, we saw Saint Zita, who had her full body still intact...it was pretty gross but cool at the same time. They are "incorruptables" whose bodies have mysteriously never decomposed. They really are totally still intact, skin and all, just the skin is all shriveled and dried up. Crazy. Just laying there, hanging out, all dead and dried up but besides that, normal looking.