Moisés
Peace
Hazelnut autumn trees
This bridge was constructed at the end of the 1 st…
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Autumn Sky
Fall 2018, more than 1000 years later ...
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Northern Autumn
Mirror
Inner Light
A escadaria
Passagem
Cargaleiro IV
Nossa Senhora dos Remédios
Nossa Senhora dos Remédios
Linge - panni stesi
Goodbye Chaves
Cruz - Lamego
Terras do Demo
A Sé de Lamego
My domain - Balsemão
The oldest chapel of the country - Balsemão
Archbishops
From happy memories 2018
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Sé
Archbishops floating garden.
A pedra de sempre
Capela de Balsemão
Carts of Montalegre
Man and Woman
Ready with the all important load
Outono II
I have been invited !
Cargaleiro - My neighbour's door
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Penamacor - The bell
Penamacor - VIII
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Castelo Branco
Serra da Estrela - XII
Belmonte - III
Guarda - XI
Guarda - III
Serra da Estrela - Pinho Nórdico
Castelo de Belmonte West Wall
Serra da Estrela - Seia
Penamacor - Age mix
Serra da Estrela
Guarda - looking South
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Serra da Estrela - III
Oldies - Barber and more . . .
Serra da Estrela - VII
Penamacor - Chapel
Serra da Estrela - VIII
You and me
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Serra da Estrela - V
Serra da Estrela - II
Serra da Estrela I
Pelourinho
Guarda - Hortas comunais
Estação do Pinhão
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The sweet chestnut was introduced into Europe from Sardis, in Asia Minor; the fruit was then called the Sardian nut. It has been a staple food in southern Europe, Turkey, and southwestern and eastern Asia for millennia, largely replacing cereals where these would not grow well, if at all, in mountainous Mediterranean areas. Evidence of its cultivation by man is found since around 2000 BC. Alexander the Great and the Romans planted chestnut trees across Europe while on their various campaigns. A Greek army is said to have survived their retreat from Asia Minor in 401–399 BC thanks to their stores of chestnuts. Ancient Greeks, such as Dioscorides and Galen, wrote of chestnuts to comment on their medicinal properties—and of the flatulence induced by eating too much of it. To the early Christians, chestnuts symbolized chastity. Until the introduction of the potato, whole forest-dwelling communities which had scarce access to wheat flour relied on chestnuts as their main source of carbohydrates. In some parts of Italy, a cake made of chestnuts is used as a substitute for potatoes. In 1583, Charles Estienne and Jean Liébault wrote, "an infinity of people live on nothing else but (the chestnut)". In 1802, an Italian agronomist said of Tuscany that "the fruit of the chestnut tree is practically the sole subsistence of our highlanders", while in 1879 it was said that it almost exclusively fed whole populations for half the year, as "a temporary but complete substitution for cereals".
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J. Gafarot club has replied to Dave Roberts 2014J. Gafarot club has replied to kiiti clubAs you remind us they were the main food of the poor who lived in the mountains, and used them to make bread, soups ... here in Italy in certain lost villages in the highland until after the Second World War, in the fifties!
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And sometimes these years went well in the middle fifties and one should be medico to afford a Fiat Mile e Cento to him and to his family.
Torna a Sorrento was Music, not life.
I must thank you for your memory and elegance in such matters.
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