Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Italian market

The variety of fruit and vegetables on Italian markets is great..

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Monday, September 18, 2006

Cinque Terre 6

The hiking trip took us from the sea all the way up at the rocks, through the vineyards with an overwhelming view.


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Cinque Terre 5




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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Cinque Terre 4

Sometimes it even seems unreal, like out of a book, so full of charm and perfectly set into scene by sunlight..Cinque Terre in Italy is a fascinating destination..


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Cinque Terre 3

Coastal impressions from a place where nature reveals all of it's beauty..


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Cinque Terre 2

Five miles of rocky coast in eastern Liguria, two promontories lie at each extremity, thousands of kilometres of dry walling, cultivated into vineyards, five southerly villages castled up on spurs of stone or disposed in clusters of very small inlets. These are the co-ordinates of the Cinque Terre (Five lands). Recognized finally as a National Park in 1999 and UNESCO protected territory since 1997 as a system of naturalistic environmental interest. This zone is characterized by the presence of precipitous slopes which have been cultivated into vineyards by means of fatiguing system of terracing the only evidence of transformation operated by the laborious human activity on the territory. The suggestive type of coastal projections on the sea with sheer cliffs that often overtake the verticality alternated with bays, winding paths and enchanting small beaches between cliffs with a profound back drop, a rich variety of ichthyic (fishing) all of which make this district an authentic natural "opera of art".


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