Here we are, at the end of Viterbo and its doors as spotted on the Last Carefree Day, February 22nd 2020. After that a new era began. And the end is not in sight.
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It was nearing six pm, I was a little doored out by then, my feet were really hurting, but the doors kept coming at me and who am I to say no?
In a parallel street the carnival with its loud and rather obnoxious music coming off the floats was in action but Flavia and I chose to keep to ourselves and our doors, for me, and windows, for her, as if we knew that in a week or so social distancing would become the new normal. We reached our cars and drove in opposite directions without knowing that we would only meet again in three months. In a mask.
The street we chose was in the shade but doors were coming left and right, reminding us that this was an old town and there was not much they hadn’t seen.
As usually, doors vary in riches, anarchy and state of preparedness for the end of the world. Welcome!
You are a nice door, yes, you are. Careful too, I see. You are barely able to shut up. That red lipstick is not fooling anybody. You are the last door in the sun with a peculiar fish window Viterbo confidential. Form and function. They like their door cages here. Sometimes there is even life behind bars. A look back. I will dream of you, Viterbo. A swirly door-window duo. Until the end of the world… (The bottom row is unclear.) Here they even give water to the doors. How considerate. Anarchy in the EU. They made sure nobody would ever see their door. What? Why? “Male” means bad in Italian and it is. A late arrival to the carnival. Do you see the masks in the window? Ok, I get it. We are to stay away. Brown and green. To end with two green ones. Pretty green butterfly. Goodbye, Viterbo!
For Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities

Thanks for this stroll around Viterbo, Manja,
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You’re most welcome, Sue. 🙂
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Great doors, Manja. That fish window looks like an eye doesn’t it? Fish-eye window? Dan will know what it’s called…
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I was pretty sure you were correct, Lois, but I had to look it up. It’s an “Oculus” (Latin for eye) but has been mispronounced over time to the point that some now all it and “Ox-eye” window.
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Thanks, Dan! I knew you would know!! ‘Oculus’–I like that.
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Well, I didn’t know, but I knew where to look.
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Thanks, Lois. Fish-eye window it is! I wonder what the owners would think of this description. 😀 And yes, Dan knows about these things.
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These are wonderful doors, Manja! There are so many lovely ones. The thing that amazes me is where one building extended a room over the arch between two buildings. I can’t imagine anything like that ever happening here, even in the early days of our history. So many great wooden doors, ironwork and stone entrances. I think I would lose myself walking around here. Thanks for bringing so many wonderful doors for us to study.
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Oh Dan, you’d lose yourself in Italy for sure and would find it hard get out. The doors here would kidnap you. Ask Norm. 😉 Oh, please, can you explain a bit more what you mean by extending a room over the arch? In which photo did you see that? Thanks for looking carefully, always.
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There’s a photo looking down a street/alley. There are several stone arches connecting the building on each side. One of the arches appears to have a room built on the left half – above the alley.
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Ah, right! An entire balcony or something was built. Slick.
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Until then we’re still alive and kicking.
That last door in the sun is like a third eye. A bit scary.
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Haha, true, Bojana. It still reminds me of a fish though. Thanks.
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A wonderful tour – a very enjoyable stroll. 🙂
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Thank you so much, Lynette. It’s exactly this kind of strolls that I miss the most.
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Your doors really tell stories, Manja!
Enjoyed this very much.
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Thank you kindly, Nes. 🙂 It may be that I can hear stories they are whispering as I pass.
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Lipstick door made laugh Manja. Another wonderful gallery to make me want to travel 🙂 🙂
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That’s excellent, Bushboy. Or maybe not, because you can’t? Thanks in every case. Sooner or later…
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I’m rather fond of the ‘anarchy’ door.
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Haha, glad to hear this, scooj. 🙂
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So many beautiful textures! I do like green doors. (K)
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Thank you, K. I think I love them the most.
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A very enjoyable gallery!
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Thank you kindly, Just Blue. 🙂 And always welcome back.
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A wonderful stroll offering a wide variety of doors. Love the arched passageways. My favorite door was the wooden doors with the metal fate in front of it with the flowers. Beautiful! Thanks for the walk around Viterbo.
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Thank you, Frank. I’m glad that you enjoyed it. This is the final, seventh part of this Viterbo walk. Welcome to have a look at the other posts if you haven’t yet.
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Thanks for the invitation … I will. 🙂
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These are great doors. Glad you got away from the carnival to find them for us.
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Thank you, Timothy. It’s the least I could do. 🙂
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I love your captions, Manja. That first door is my favourite. Hope you and Flavia get together soon.
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Ahh, Jean, thank you so much! I wish that too most of all and yet on Monday most of Italy is going back to code red. 😦
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Sorry to hear that. We are in a strict lockdown here but hoping for a bit of relief next month.
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Some great doors. I think the one with the fish window above looks like a giant eye looking at everyone walking by or seeing who is entering.
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That’s how it feels like indeed. 🙂 Thank you!
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So happy to have found you again. I guess I missed the last move to this new blog. Lovely doors and we heard that Italy was going back to code red. Fingers crossed, my husband and I are hoping to get our vaccine shots in April. We can’t wait to get back to Italy. Maybe in 2022.
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Oh, Carol, great to see you here! This blog is slowly filling up already, I’ve had it since August 2019! But better late than never. 🙂 The past year I’ve been posting doors on Thursdays and not much else. Just not in the mood… True, most of Italy is turning red tomorrow, including Rome, but it seems Tuscany stays orange. Not much difference. I must not leave my tiny municipality but at least I can stroll around within it. I do hope you can come over. Italy needs you and you need Italy. 🙂
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My husband would totally agree that we need Italy. We had such a great time when we were there for our son’s wedding and that will be five years in July. My how time flies.
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”At the end of the world, only you will exist” (my guess). Over here, thibgs started a month later and my colleagues have been remarking the anniversary for vacating the office building. Strange time.
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That’s a nice guess. Thank you, SMSW. Strange days have found us, The Doors used to sing.
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