https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9ffae405-8daf-40c3-980b-b804db62045c Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This color silent home movie, shot by an unknown American tourist, shows a trip to Italy and the Italian Riviera with Brownell Tours of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This is circa the 1950s. Opening title: We enter northern Italy on a highway overhanging the Mediterranean hillsides (:09). Italian seaside town of San Remo (:21). Car with flowers goes by followed by a priest, a hearse, and mourners for the deceased (:34). Northern Italy; poolside at the Hotel Mediterraneo in San Remo; the tour group poses near the tour bus (1:03). Seaside San Remo (1:18). Genoa, the beautiful seaport in Northern Italy, the birthplace off Christopher Columbus; a statue of Columbus (1:40). Watch cutting and polishing of marble at Marina de Carrara (2:03). Town of Pisa; see the Baptistry, the Cathedral, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa (2:35). Florence, Italy, situated on both banks of the Arno River (2:55). In Florence, Giotta’s Campanile (the Bell Tower), The Cathedral, The Baptistry (3:19). Hill towns; Olive trees in Barberino; Grapes at Staggia Senes (3:51). Sienna, a hill town with many churches; people walk the streets (4:20). Bell Tower in Sienna (4:49). Cathedral in Sienna (5:10). In Sienna, the Piazza del Campo and Palazzo Publico (5:49). Corsa del Palio horse race; people in medieval garb; a man waves a flag (6:27). Sienna hotel (7:32). People walk through the town (7:55). Corsa del Palio horse race with people in medieval garb doing a procession (8:05). People play drums in the procession; wave flags as a huge crowd watches (10:16). Pigs in a field (11:37). Arezzo’s oleander lined streets (12:16). Perugia, Italy. Etruscan and medieval buildings (12:41). Towns of Todi then Prodo (13:08). Town of Orvieto and its gothic cathedrals (13:42). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7qeUyCICz0 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:11:03 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9ffae405-8daf-40c3-980b-b804db62045c All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.