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26 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming
Nonantola is a town located about 10 km northeastward from Modena. I was returning from a survey in the lower plain when I passed through Nonantola and I said to myself: why not? I stopped the car for a quick hike in the old part of the town. It...
24 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments lemming
I have introduced the town of Castelvetro di Modena here https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fiction-its-nature/urban-hiking-castelvetro-di-modena-by-night-xqkyzne. There are two ways to enter the old town: from the south and from...
22 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
43 year-old Luca Attanasio, Italy's ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with 30 year-old Vittorio Iacovacci, a military police officer, and a Congolese driver are dead after a United Nations' World Food Program convoy was attack nea...
19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments lemming
The Canale Minutara (Minutara Channell) is a tributary of the Canale Naviglio which I have shown here https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fiction-its-nature/river-hiking-canale-naviglio-northern-italy-xerzoxg. I walked along its...
17 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Dr_Gonzi
At the exact point where the two great rivers meet - Ticino and Po - the Becca bridge stands, an extraordinary man-made artefact built between 1910 and 1912 on a project by the Swiss engineer Jules Röthlisberger. The bridge connects the city of Pavia...
17 Feb 2021 1 minute read 7 comments lemming
Castelvetro di Modena is a small town perched on top of a hill in the Province of Modena. Probably it took origin from an old Roman camp. To walk along the streets of the old town centre is very suggestive, especially at night when there are not so m...
15 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming
Some days ago I passed in Bastiglia, a small town some km north of the city of Modena and I took the opportunity to have a quick walk along the Canale Naviglio (Naviglio channel). The Naviglio is a large channel that brings water from the city of Mo...
12 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments lemming
The appearance of a river changes by passing from the mountain to the plain in a manner that it can be very difficult to recognize what we had used to see. Approximately at the height of the city of Modena, the Panaro river stops having a very wid...
5 Feb 2021 1 minute read 4 comments lemming
Torrente Guerro is one of the longest tributaries of River Panaro: https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fiction-its-nature/river-hiking-river-panaro-northern-italy-xroelyr https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-ficti...
28 Jan 2021 1 minute read 7 comments lemming
I have already shown the castle here https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fiction-its-nature/urban-hiking-from-the-river-to-the-castle-xllpgwn and the inner old town here https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fictio...
