The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights, you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you’re wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind. (M.L. Stedman) Down, down, down to the extreme tip of Sicily until there is no …
Trabocchi are an old fishing machine. They are common along the Southeastern coast of Italy, specifically in Abruzzo and Puglia. At the extreme point of the right-hand promontory, on a bank of rocks the Trabocco stretched, a strange fishing machine, constructed entirely of beams and planks, like a colossal spider-web. (Gabriele D’Annunzio, The Triumph of …
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This is the story of a dark night —the darkest night of the year—at least, that is what they say in Nusco. It is a night litup by fascinating bonfires. Nusco Nusco lies in Campania, province of Avellino, in the green and hilly Irpinia. It sits on a windy hilltop at almost a thousand meters in …
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