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If the pictured wall were Australian, ceramic ducks might “fly” on it.
In Altomonte – a very pleasant, historic, hilltop town in Calabria – this wall’s ceramic decorations celebrate a member of the cactus family.
Along with all but one other of the circa 127 members of the cactus family, prickly pears originally grew only in the Americas.
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This sequel to #9 in this series takes us to the edge of the same Calabrian mountain village.
Civita sits within Italy’s largest national park; Pollino National Park is named after the Pollino massif, which reaches a little higher than does anything on the Australian continent.
The brink of a very deep gorge, carved by the waters of the Raganello, is just an easy, short walk away from the centre of Civita.
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The featured image shows a very relaxed, aged, large canine resident of Civita – an attractive, historic, and spectacularly located Calabrian hill town.
Visual evidence – over five enjoyable weeks in southern Italy – suggests that Italian dogs are well-loved by their human “owners”, but that dog owners comprise a smaller percentage of the Italian population than the Australian one.
On Italian streets, however, one’s feet are almost never far from “fresh”, soggy dogshit.
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