bare mountains and autumn forrests

what the locals do - chestnut harvesting

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November 7th 2010
in this agricultural region of Italy harvesting or "la raccolta", whether for the current season's mushrooms, chestnuts, olives, mandarin and clementines or cabbage...it's all in the family, not just the local farmers who are out there hard at work...the work of the farmer or "contadino" is the homefront... On a crisp and sunny Sunday morning my husband and I joined my sister-in-law's ... read more

Europe » Italy » Basilicata » Sant'Arcangelo

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more