Gold star four : Bitter Orange Trees

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I see bitter orange trees all over Liguria and they are delightful.

Bitter orange trees originally came from South East Asia, through Oman, Persia and Egypt.

They arrived in 1000AC on the coasts of the Arabian Mediterranean Sea (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Lebanon.)

In the course of the crusades, the French and Genoese loaded it on to their ships and brought it home to garnish their gardens.

The bitter orange tree then arrived in Liguria and Provence, and as a result the areas grew prosperous. The citrus groves on the Ligurian west coast were called 'The Ligurian Gardens of the Hesperides'

Now there are many bitter orange trees placed between Sanremo and Ventimiglia.

REFERENCES

■Sanremo
■Ventimiglia
■orange trees

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Photos

Bitter orange tree in La Spezia
There are usually lines of them