A series of rowing regattas, the so-called “Palio delle Bisse” are currently taking place on Lake Garda. The bissa boat race started on June 11th and will end on August 6th.
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Lent is the roughly six-week period extending from the end of Carnival to Easter Sunday. During this length of time, Roman Catholics abstain from consuming meat and other rich foods to commemorate the forty days of fasting that Jesus spent in the desert. Under the reign of Charlemagne, whoever failed to abstain from meat during
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It would seem that the olive tree is a native of somewhere between the Caucasus, the Iranian plateau, the coasts of Syria and Palestine. From here it then spread to Asia Minor, Africa and Greece. In the words of Maria Vittoria Divincenzo, author of numerous botanical works: “it is a splendid plant, long-living and
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The activity carried out by the ancient guild of the formaggeri, known locally as casolini and throughout the Middle Ages as carnaroli or lardaroli, corresponds to that of present-day delicatessen shop-owners; on their premises, present in every square and district, customers could find butter, cheeses produced in the environs of Verona, Brescia and Lodi,
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