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RE: http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/07-09/a-great-decision-assisi-italy.html

In Assisi, Italy, a two-story canopy covered escalator leads up the hill from an upper parking lot, toward town. Can you imagine an escalator climbing the hill in a medieval city? At the top of the escalator we walked higher through the town, then turned and walked down, down, and down the hill, snaking through this most unusual city. Fruit and vegetable vendors filled market squares, pink stone houses and stores lined the narrow walkways. As we walked down street after street past buildings that are a thousand years old and look it, we admired the window and store displays, and found stylish things for sale, exhibited in an attractive manner. It was a short bus ride to where we had parked. It turns out that parking in that upper lot, riding the escalator up the hill, then walking those miles down the hill through Assisi, was one of the best travel ideas we ever had, even if it was just a happenstance. (1995)