The path to number 9 The path to number 9 winds along the valley of the Turrite de Cava from the Piazza Nuova .Locally known as the piazza dopo lavoro, (after work) it offers a staging post for all the comings and goings of the village, as it is impossible to take anything but a very small vehicle beyond it. There are no cars here, just the occasional three wheeled api, appropriately nicknamed from the bee, these Lambretta hybrids crawl laboriously up the hill. Heavily loaded with neatly cut fire wood, they pitch and role between the houses, before un-ceremoniously dumping their load in the street outside the appointed cellar. To the straniera (outsider) a log is a log, but the villagers of Cardoso are log connoisseurs and it is important that the correct choice is
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