Fiori, Fiori, Fiori!

Today, Sean and I went to a little town on the outskirts of Rome called Genzano. I happily gazed out of the window during the relaxing, hour-long train ride, slowly winding along the green, vineyard-covered Italian countryside. We arrived to the small city center to find a long pathway leading up to a church, completely covered in a carpet of flower petals. The flowers are delicately arranged on the ground to create the most vivid, colorful religious murals in celebration of Corpus Domini, a Catholic holiday to remember The Last Supper and the holy Eucharist, or holy communion, symbolic of the body of Christ. It was a beautiful display in the middle of a typical, Italian small town - cobble stone streets and plenty of cafe bars and gelaterie. The sun was bright, and scorching, and I almost asked the guy watering the flowers to water me!