Don’t get me wrong.  La Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, the Duomo, is quite magnificent–and its Piazza, with or without the festival in play, truly an amazing sight to behold as you come upon it, unexpectedly (as captured in these photos from October 2013).

But what a difference a year makes.  More than ten days have passed, and we have not felt the need to rush out and see it, perhaps because we knew we had penciled in the “rock” dance performance (details unknown) in the Duomo piazza for this afternoon.  Pictures to follow, weather permitting.

But it’s raining at the moment.  Weather man calling for more.  Not that we put much stock in the predictions when the clouds, and your relation to them, turn on a dime.  So we’ll see.  In the meantime, images from near and far stick around to play in our minds: