Left over snow still to melt

Further wandering in La Valle,the Dolomites

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May 2nd 2013
The sun takes a while to pierce the valley as the mountain sides are so steep but when it arrived it had a pleasant warmth to it and you could almost see the spring flowers and leaves growing. While we were walking up to the church yesterday we spied what we thought looked like a road through the forest of pines on the other side of the valley.It appeared to head up towards the end of the valle ... read more

Europe » Italy » Trentino Alto Adige » La Valle

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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