Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Today I played chess with someone in Sant'Elpidio a Mare, Italy. As usual I looked it up.


Sant'Elpidio a Mare, a town in Italy.

The town in Italy has about 17,000 people. My farm town in Illinois has about 12,000 people.

My town is 167 years old. My house is 131 years old.

The town in Italy is much older.

The town occupies the site of the ancient Roman city of Cluana, destroyed by the Visigoths in the early 5th century. In 887 here a large Benedictine Abbey was founded in 887; the medieval borough rose around it as Castello di Sant'Elpidio, starting from the 11th century.

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The chess game: I won. I had the White pieces.

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