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Travels in Italy’s 11th most-visited region.
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Italy is just too full of little gems like this! You need a lifetime to discover them all! Thanks for sharing this pocket of Italy with us.
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You’re welcome, Anna! 🙂
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This is such a brilliant ‘you’ post. You go around Italy and find a ‘-stan’, with a charging llama and all. The photos are majestic, most of all of the man and the instrument. And the three links are important too.
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Thanks Manja! I don’t know too much about the google maps links; there are some places in Piemonte (google Borgo d’Ale, Gattonara, Alice Castello) that oughta be transformed into rice paddies!
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Beautiful. We drove right through your lovely region one summer and appreciated it just as much (maybe more) as Italy’s more famous regions. Love the llama story and all the photos.
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Did you?! Where did you go?
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Lovely! I’ve been to Turin, briefly, and from there to visit Damanhur where we stayed in the village of Vidracco for 3 days. Alas I remember nothing of Piermont but Damanhur; extraordinary place. This post encourages me to explore further one day. Your photos have captured what makes the region compelling. I especially love the first photo of the horses – beautifully composed.
Stay safe from llamas 🙂
Alison
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Thanks Alison! Yeah, Damanhur is quite a weird place, but it fits well in the region, somehow. Please do come back!
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Beautiful tribute to this off-the-beaten-path part of Italy. Good to know it exists! I’m familiar with the region, via books, because I have a historical novel in the works that’s about the Countess de Castiglione, who lived at the time of Vittorio-Emanuele and the Reunification. Some of it takes place in Turin and Piedmont-Sardinia. Will I ever finish it? Who knows. But this post has certainly rekindled the spark.
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Ah, really?! Not bad, but that means you got to come around and see the place for yourself Julie!
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Lovely post. Got to visit! Cheers
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Thanks! Come anytime!
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So many places to see, so little time. (Especially when I waste so much of it ensconced on the couch rather than seeing places.) It looks like lovely countryside. Enjoyed your llama lament – a tourist pizza, identifiable via hopefully unstomped SD card.
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Thanks Dave! I suppose it’d have made for quite a story, had we really been trampled to death by a llama… I can see St Peter at the Pearly Gates, roll in hand, “Oh yeah, you’re the llama guys!”
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Un Piémontais? Hmmm. 🙂
Did you realize that the Beauty you have been chasing to the end of the world may just be right there, at home?
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Maybe, but there’s different beauties out there!
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True. Though in my case, and my age, Peace is part of Beauty. And there ain’t much peace here no more, amico mio.
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