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Brugnello Bend
Brugnello Bend

Trebbia stream bend near Brugnello, Piacenza province, Italy, panoramic stitch, even in late April the water level was quite low, it may even be dry...

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Road Trough the Hills
Road Trough the Hills
by Mario Calma

Drone shot of the Strada Statale 121 I Sicily

Trulli in blue, Alberobello, Italy
Trulli in blue, Alberobello, Italy
by Adelheid Smitt

The town of Alberobello in Puglia, in the heel of Italy has become quite a popular tourist destination. Everyone suddenly wants to see these cute, cone shaped houses that are so typical to that small area. Trulli are small, conical, single room buildings that were made either as storehouses out in the countryside or as dwellings. In the countryside they appear in small clusters of two or three, whereas in Alberobello there is a whole section of town consisting of trulli. The latter has unfortunately become quite a tourist circus, with hardly a trullo that is not a souvenir shop. Some of them now also serve as guest accommodation.

Thanks to all Phoide contributors to statale!
Most notably Mario Calma and Adelheid Smitt.