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19 Aug 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Julius Yls
CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO ITALY Founded two and half millennia ago by the Etruscans, this beautifully strange village is located on the top of an eroded hill. Civita is also known as "the dying village" due to progressive erosion that can cause the v...
13 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming
Some weeks ago I had to do a survey near the small town of Camposanto and I took the opportunity to walk a little for a mix od countryside, river and urban hiking. First of all, I left my car and climbed the embankment of the River Panaro. The bikew...
11 Aug 2021 1 minute read 6 comments lemming
I have always been fascinated by fields with bales. They remember me a sort of prehistoric temple ... ... as they were menhir left by someone in a specif order. And when the day is very hot (more than boiling) they can give a little shelter in the...
10 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Julius Yls
ROME (ITALY) ROME history is bold and heavy! The city has been occupied for more than two millenniums, making it the oldest continuously occupied city in Europe! Roaming the city of Rome gives me the impression of walking inside a tornado, whe...
29 Jul 2021 1 minute read 2 comments lemming
In the town of Vignola there is a place well known as "Vecchio mercato" (old market) or the "Vecchio mercato della frutta" (the Old fruit market). It is a large rectangular area closed by a very thin building that in the past hosted the place where...
24 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming
This was not proper urban hiking as the park is located in the countryside of the municipality of Castelfranco Emilia (more or less 15 km est from the city of Modena). The park is enormous ... ... with small lakes and ponds ... ... and the need f...
22 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming
I have already written about the plain part of the Panaro river here https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fiction-its-nature/river-hiking-river-panaro-northern-italy-part-five-a-plain-v-xqkyojo here I present a piece some km downst...
20 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming
Some weeks ago I was driving while I saw this ... I couldn't resist it. I parked the car, jumped a not very large channel, and got to the country ground. I don't know the name of these white flowers, but they rested on the ground marking the countr...
16 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming
I have already introduced River Secchia near the big town of Sassuolo here https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fiction-its-nature/river-hiking-river-secchia-northern-italy-part-3-near-the-to-xxwdzlr. That post was about walking on...
10 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming
The Torrente Tiepido is the main tributary of the River Panaro (see for example here https://www.publish0x.com/nature-tells-tales-it-is-not-fiction-its-nature/river-hiking-river-panaro-northern-italy-part-five-a-plain-v-xqkyojo) and along its route i...
