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L'Americana: Ricamatrice

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Photos and narrative wanderings from a hilltop town in Campania, Italy. Monday, May 10, 2010. Sewing lace in a quiet corner of the Centro Storico. Irpinia Art Colony's Calitri Tours team. Is engaged in the cultural development of. And in providing tourism services for Americans interested in discovering small towns away from mass tourism and for those who want to rediscover their. Join the town every August through September for their annual Feste and discover a world apart. The 3 day package tour. Azien...

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L'Americana: Saint Angela or the Ursulines? - You pick

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Photos and narrative wanderings from a hilltop town in Campania, Italy. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Saint Angela or the Ursulines? In Italy everyone has a name day or Saint Day. I have two, or seventy-two depending on your POV. Is SS Angeli Custodi. The catch all Saints day for. All 72 of them.) That day recently passed. And would have gone unnoticed but for a couple of dear and angelically attuned Italian friends who called me with their A. But it gets better. Turns out, in 1535 St Angela chose tw...

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L'Americana: How I Rock An Italian Morning in Under 30 Steps*

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Photos and narrative wanderings from a hilltop town in Campania, Italy. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. How I Rock An Italian Morning in Under 30 Steps*. Young Lover's Bench, Santa Lucia. 1) Wake up. Get out of bed, drag a comb across my head. 2) If it’s before 8:30, I think, Not bad. Considering this is Italy, and i scuri. On my balcony doors vanquish all natural light. 5) Head to the darkish kitchen, one room away, to assemble caffe'. On my kitchen doors are never open before 10am). To the street side of ...

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L'Americana: Lucia's Anticoli, Town of Madonnas

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Photos and narrative wanderings from a hilltop town in Campania, Italy. Tuesday, July 08, 2014. Lucia's Anticoli, Town of Madonnas. Lucia's mother, Madonna of Anticoli. Year old Lucia Nebel White. Was born into a family of beautiful Madonnas. A gorgeous late June evening, bottle of wine in hand for the dinner that would follow, we arrived. You'll like her, Betty says. She's Italian, she's a photographer and she lives in an old-stone studio that was once her fathers. Italians, photography and old stone -.

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L'Americana: Fac’ i Buccacc’ - Qua non si paga

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Photos and narrative wanderings from a hilltop town in Campania, Italy. Thursday, August 30, 2012. Fac’ i Buccacc’ - Qua non si paga. Moonrise over Monte Vulture as la signora De Cecca picks the last of her crop. Ok, so I am sort of known for not writing/posting about food on these pages but it is certainly not for lack of interest. Qua si mangia bene. The aroma of woodsmoke at the height and heat of an August afternoon. So if not now, when? The inspiration started from a gifted bucket of passed over San.

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L'Americana: La Tredicina di Sant'Antonio

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Photos and narrative wanderings from a hilltop town in Campania, Italy. Wednesday, June 03, 2015. La Tredicina di Sant'Antonio. Dedicated to Saint Anthony. Or the first thirteen days of June. Here in Calitri, Sant'Antonio's bell is rung. By hand starting around 5 pm when the women of la cascina gather down to his little yellow church at the base of the hill to sing prayers for themselves and the town. Vespers. The tredicina is an. Extended novena in the number thirteen. T. Hirteen days to appeal to.

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L'Americana: Knight Errant & il tocco femminile ...

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Photos and narrative wanderings from a hilltop town in Campania, Italy. Friday, October 25, 2013. Knight Errant and il tocco femminile . Zampaglione calls his organic Fiano wine Don Chisciotte. For a reason. People thought he was crazy. Cultivate the low yielding delicate and noble. On a windswept slope deep in the heart of Eastern Irpinia? Pierluigi of course wanted to write his own story -. Nerina in the rows. Under the force of an enchantment (or was it il. Seasonal transumanza herds have crossed its ...