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Harvest time in Andezeno
This weekend, hills and valleys around Turin seem to be blossoming with food and wine: wherever you turn your head there's a food festival, a wine-tasting event, a polenta party, and we are not even in bagna cauda/chestnuts season! Having too many choices usually leads to not taking a decision: today the main options were a wine event in Andezeno, in the hills near Chieri, or a food festival in my own town, Settimo Torinese. The sky was gloomy and rain was expected, so we drove...
In Maglione, even road signs are artistic
A series of road signs in Maglione, a small hilltown in Piedmont, Italy. The rest of the town is quite artistic as...
A nutria (Coypu) in Settimo
A nutria (Myocastor coypus), also known as coypu, in the Po River Park in Settimo Torinese, Italy. Yes, that was an unexpected encounter, in case you are wondering. Settimo is not exactly known as a town that pays attention to fauna: the town had a steel factory and a...
Resting
Resting on the way to Col Rosset (Rosset Mount), near the Nivolet Mount, at the border between Piedmont and the Aosta Valley, in...