We’ve had a couple of rainy weekends that discouraged us from going anywhere. It is hard to want to walk around when it is either pouring or drizzling; those days are best spent lounging about watching a movie. The weather has finally begun to improve and it was a beautiful sunny day on Saturday so we thought we would go on another daytrip. We decided to go visit Gioia del Colle. This means “Jewels of the Neck.” According to legend, a queen dug up a cache of jewels and she had them turned into a necklace. My question was, “So where is this necklace? Fortunately, Gioia del Colle is also famous for three other products that are very much in the present. In the 17th century, a local Benedictine monk found the vines of the
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