1950s BROWNELL TOUR OF NORTHERN ITALY & ITALIAN RIVIERA HOME MOVIE GENOA PISA SAN REMO 56224

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: 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, si