Abandoned farmstead on road to Tinchi

the silence of it's hills

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November 17th 2010
While we're getting used to the movement of life around here in Bernalda, I took a drive one morning to simply absorb. I brought my flimsy digital camera with me just as a backup and took most of the photos with my faithful film (Pentax) camera (only later to find out that there is no film development here in Bernalda....mind the one place that sends it out to a "manual" lab that then costs 30 ... read more

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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