Day 1 of our Livigno holiday - September 2nd, 2023.
On our 4 hour coach drive from Milan to Livigno I couldn't stop taking pictures of the beautiful scenery. One thing that amazed me was chapels high up in the mountain with few if any houses around it. All the time I was asking to myself " Who would go up there for the church service when there are chapels on level ground?"
That’s quite a sight, I wonder why that are so isolated? Sometimes in this country you find churches stood with nothing around them & that is usually due to disease, where the community either died out or abandoned one settlement to create another. I feel that is probably not the case here though.
How wonderful standing out there amongst all the greenery ! Views like this can be deceiving as we do not see the road leading to this building and other building tucked away by the trees . Looking carefully to the right - you can just but see the roof tops of a few other buildings! But so eye catching !
I'm sure there must be some brave, devout people who go up there, but doubt there are services in all of the chapels! Fewer people than ever are taking up the vocation. That's especially true in Italy. Our local priest has to do 8 churches, is over 70 and is permanently tired.
Ian