Road
to from Rome Day 29: Monopoli - Torre Canne
The star of today's stage was the olive tree. We left the coast to walk inland among olive groves and vegetable plots. The region of Puglia is Italy's vegetable garden, and we saw fields of parsley, celery, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, potatoes, cherry tomatoes... And of course cime di rapa, for serving with orecchiette, Puglia's best-known variety of pasta.
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| Chard harvest underway |
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| Those bluish cabbages again |
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| Baby cabbages |
But the true protagonist of the landscape today was the olive tree. Specimens hundreds of years old, in every conceivable form, bent over, propped up with bricks, with dry stone walls running right through them, burnt out and reborn... It was like walking through a natural sculpture garden, all day long!
Okay, you've probably seen enough olive trees by now!
So had we by the time we came to the archaeological site of Egnazia, inhabited since the first half of the second millennium BC. Here we were welcomed by representatives of the town of Fasano, whose territory we were entering. We took a break at the museum, which had toilets and a hot chocolate machine - much appreciated on this drizzly day, as were the bright yellow neck warmers presented to us by the Rotary Club of Fasano!
Attired in our bright yellow neck warmers/head coverings and accompanied by representatives of the municipality, the Rotary Club, and the local tourist office and sports association, we continued on our way towards Torre Canne in a light rain. When we reached the town, back on the coast, we were welcomed with a group picture, a buffet and a glass of wine at the lighthouse museum.
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| Navigating a particularly large puddle |
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| To the lighthouse! |
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| Alessio & the lighthouse |
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| Myra updating the social networks while the rest of us enjoy the buffet |
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