Chiara grew up between the climb to Terra Murata and the steps down to Corricella, and still walks that route several times a week. She writes about villages, churches, palaces and how they fit into a single day: the island-history pages and the itineraries on this site are almost all hers.
Her method is boring, which is why it works. Opening hours come from the official site or from the phone of whoever unlocks the door, not from aggregators: for the Abbey of San Michele that means the parish website, for Palazzo d'Avalos it means emailing the guided-visits address and telling the reader that the calendars published elsewhere do not agree. When sources conflict she says so rather than picking the number that reads best, and when something is closed — the abbey's crypt, for instance — it goes at the top of the page, not the bottom.
She walks the monuments again at every change of season, because April and November are two different islands here: bus timetables change, kitchens close, half the opening staff disappears. She has a declared preference for late afternoon in autumn, when the walk between the two villages can be done without sweating and without queueing. Ask her what to skip and she will tell you gladly: it is her favourite question.