Mom and Pop slice and quarter happily through the day. Spaghetti, salad and wine on the Al Forno patio, cuddled by Civita. Spend the evening. Sit on the church steps with people who've done exactly that for 60 years. Al Forno serves late.
Children play on the piazza until midnight.
From the town gate overlooking the canyon, in the quiet of the night, stop and listen . Civita is an artist's dream, a town in the nude. Each lane and footpath holds a surprise. Horses pose, the warm stone walls glow, each stairway is dessert to a sketch pad or camera, and the Grand Canyon moat does its best to keep things that way. It's changing, however, as the persistent battering ram of our modern world pounds on these rare strongholds of the past.