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  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A dry stone wall restored by Margherita Ermirio, a 32 years old local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, is seen in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
She wants to show younger generations the backbone of the Cinque Terre landscape, and teach them why it’s crucial to maintain their dry stone walls, dovetailed to hold the soil behind and above.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_71...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A dry stone wall restored by Margherita Ermirio, a 32 years old local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, is seen in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
She wants to show younger generations the backbone of the Cinque Terre landscape, and teach them why it’s crucial to maintain their dry stone walls, dovetailed to hold the soil behind and above.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_71...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A dry stone wall restored by Margherita Ermirio, a 32 years old local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, is seen in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
She wants to show younger generations the backbone of the Cinque Terre landscape, and teach them why it’s crucial to maintain their dry stone walls, dovetailed to hold the soil behind and above.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_74...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: Margherita Ermirio, 32, a local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, is seen here in front of a hill with dry stone walls and terracings she has worked on, in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
She wants to show younger generations the backbone of the Cinque Terre landscape, and teach them why it’s crucial to maintain their dry stone walls, dovetailed to hold the soil behind and above.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_70...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: Margherita Ermirio, 32, a local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, touches a non-dry stone wall (cement has been used here) to show a class of high-school students the difference with dry stone walls, here in Manarola, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_75...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: Margherita Ermirio, 32, a local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, walks through a vineyard in a terracing here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
She wants to show younger generations the backbone of the Cinque Terre landscape, and teach them why it’s crucial to maintain their dry stone walls, dovetailed to hold the soil behind and above.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_73...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), shows 1970s pictures of his mother who was one of the few women who had mastered the art of dry stone walls, here in his home in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_65...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: Margherita Ermirio, 32, a local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, poses for a portrait in Manarola, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_75...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: Hills with dry stone walls and terracings are seen here in Manarola, a village of the Cinque Terre, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_75...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A hill with terracing and dry stone walls is seen here in Vernazza, a village of the Cinque Terre, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_74...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: A collcetion of tradiional Ligurian daily life items is seen here in Anselmo Crovara's  Memory Archive, housed in his own attic in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_68...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), looks through the window here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_66...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Tools to build dry stone walls are seen here in Anselmo Crovara's Memory Archive, housed in his own attic, which hosts a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life, in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. <br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_66...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), shows a 1970s picture of a handrwitten warning stating "Dry stone walls. Danger of fall. Do not stand by", here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_65...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: Margherita Ermirio, 32, a local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, poses for a portrait in Manarola, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_75...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: Margherita Ermirio, 32, a local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, poses for a portrait in Manarola, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_75...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A view of the dry stone walls and terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves that horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre, here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_74...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Margherita Ermirio (32), a local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, is seen here by a hill with terracings in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_70...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: A view of the Ligurian coastline with its dry stone walls and terracings is seen here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_70...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), poses for a portrait here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_68...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), poses for a portrait here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_68...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), looks at fragments of terracotta he collected in his Memory Archive here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_67...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: (R-L) Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), and Margherita Ermirio (32), a local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, are seen here in Mr Crovara's Memory Archive in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_67...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), looks through the window here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_66...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), walks up towards his attic in his home here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_66...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A measuring tape used by a high-school class to measure dry stone walls during a field trip with Margherita Ermirio, part of a UNESCO Youth program to enhance the relationship between the young and their territory, is seen here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017. This class has been studying terracing in the Cinque Terre from an historical point of view, comparing the 18th century maps with Google earth’s most recent pictures. From the measures taken during the field trip, students will make a 3D design of the area.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_71...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: A hill with terracing and dry stone walls is seen here in Manarola, a village of the Cinque Terre, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_69...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: A photo album with 1950s pictures of Andrea Corvaro's mother (left), one of the few women who had mastered the art of dry stone walls, and of other stone walls and farmers (right) are seen here in Anselmo Crovara's Memory Archive, housed in his own attic, which hosts a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life, in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_69...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), poses for a portrait here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_68...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: A collcetion of tradiional Ligurian daily life items is seen here in Anselmo Crovara's  Memory Archive, housed in his own attic in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_67...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), flips through newpaper clippings of the Cinque Terre, in his home here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. Mr Crovara learned to build dry stone walls when he was a little boy.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_65...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: (L-R) Anselmo Crovara (82), the creator and custodian of the Memory Archive housed in his own attic (a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life), and Margherita Ermirio (32), a local who has spent years abroad and is now the pillar of the battle to restore dry stone walls and preserve the terracing, look at a photo album with pictures of stone walls and farmers ranging from the 50s to the 70s, in Mr Crovara's home in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_65...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: Vittorio Ermirio (left), a former swimming champion and Margherita’s father, addresses students in his 250 square meters of pergola vineyards where he makes his Ligurian white wine, in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_74...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A high-school class climbs up the steep<br />
slope during a field trip with Margherita Ermirio, part of a UNESCO Youth program to enhance the relationship between the young and their territory, here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017. This class has been studying terracing in the Cinque Terre from an historical point of view, comparing the 18th century maps with Google earth’s most recent pictures. From the measures taken during the field trip, students will make a 3D design of the area.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_73...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A high-school class is here during a field trip with Margherita Ermirio, part of a UNESCO Youth program to enhance the relationship between the young and their territory, here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017. This class has been studying terracing in the Cinque Terre from an historical point of view, comparing the 18th century maps with Google earth’s most recent pictures. From the measures taken during the field trip, students will make a 3D design of the area.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_72...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017:  A view of Vernazza, one of the five villages of the Cinque Terra - a rugged portion of the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region - is seen here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_72...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A high-school class takes measures during a field trip with Margherita Ermirio, part of a UNESCO Youth program to enhance the relationship between the young and their territory, here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017. This class has been studying terracing in the Cinque Terre from an historical point of view, comparing the 18th century maps with Google earth’s most recent pictures. From the measures taken during the field trip, students will make a 3D design of the area.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_71...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A view of Manarola, one of the five villages of the Cinque Terra - a rugged portion of the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region - is seen here in Manarola, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_75...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A winemaker is seen here at work in his vineyard in a terracing in Manarola, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_75...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A high-school class is here during a field trip with Margherita Ermirio, part of a UNESCO Youth program to enhance the relationship between the young and their territory, here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017. This class has been studying terracing in the Cinque Terre from an historical point of view, comparing the 18th century maps with Google earth’s most recent pictures. From the measures taken during the field trip, students will make a 3D design of the area.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_72...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A high-school class is here during a field trip with Margherita Ermirio, part of a UNESCO Youth program to enhance the relationship between the young and their territory, here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017. This class has been studying terracing in the Cinque Terre from an historical point of view, comparing the 18th century maps with Google earth’s most recent pictures. From the measures taken during the field trip, students will make a 3D design of the area.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_72...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A high-school class is here during a field trip with Margherita Ermirio, part of a UNESCO Youth program to enhance the relationship between the young and their territory, here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017. This class has been studying terracing in the Cinque Terre from an historical point of view, comparing the 18th century maps with Google earth’s most recent pictures. From the measures taken during the field trip, students will make a 3D design of the area.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_71...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A high-school class takes measures during a field trip with Margherita Ermirio, part of a UNESCO Youth program to enhance the relationship between the young and their territory, here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017. This class has been studying terracing in the Cinque Terre from an historical point of view, comparing the 18th century maps with Google earth’s most recent pictures. From the measures taken during the field trip, students will make a 3D design of the area.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_71...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A view of the 2012 flood that hit the Cinque Terra - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
villages' main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives -is seen here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_70...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: A view of Manarola, one of the five villages of the Cinque Terra - a rugged portion of the Italian Riviera in the Liguria region - is seen here in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_70...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: The doorphone of Anselmo Crovara's Memory Archive, housed in his own attic, which hosts a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life, is seen here at the entrance of his home in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_69...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: A photo album with a 1960s picture of stonewalls and terracing of the Cinque Terre is seen here in Anselmo Crovara's Memory Archive, housed in his own attic, which hosts a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life, in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_69...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: A photo album with pictures of stone walls and farmers ranging from the 50s to the 70s is seen here in Anselmo Crovara's Memory Archive, housed in his own attic, which hosts a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life, in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_69...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Farming tools used in the Cinque Terre are seen here in Anselmo Crovara's Memory Archive, housed in his own attic, which hosts a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life, in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. <br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_67...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: Farming tools used in the Cinque Terre are seen here in Anselmo Crovara's Memory Archive, housed in his own attic, which hosts a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life, in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017. <br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_66...jpg
  • VERNAZZA, ITALY - 1 JUNE 2017: A high-school class is here during a field trip with Margherita Ermirio, part of a UNESCO Youth program to enhance the relationship between the young and their territory, here in Vernazza, Italy, on June 1st 2017. This class has been studying terracing in the Cinque Terre from an historical point of view, comparing the 18th century maps with Google earth’s most recent pictures. From the measures taken during the field trip, students will make a 3D design of the area.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170601_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_72...jpg
  • MANAROLA, ITALY - 31 MAY 2017: A collections of painting of the Holy Mary are seen here in Anselmo Crovara's Memory Archive, housed in his own attic, which hosts a collection of items from traditional Ligurian daily life, in Manarola, Italy, on May 31st 2017.<br />
<br />
Given its jagged coastline and manifold mountainous chains, Italy is believed to hold a record in Europe with an estimated 300,000 hectares of terracing, and 170,000 kilometers of dry stone walls— 20 times the length of the Great Wall of China.<br />
Liguria, the narrow half-moon shaped region along the northern<br />
Thyrrenian sea, has the highest concentration, and terracing is in<br />
poor shape there. In Vernazza, almost half of the terracing is in<br />
ruins.<br />
<br />
Terraced vineyards, apple and lemon groves horizontally run around the green slopes of the Cinque Terre. The stone walls have allowed such vital cultivation in the area and prevented land slides. Since the 1960s, the ancient walls have been largely<br />
abandoned, posing hydro-geological threats to the same villages during<br />
heavy rains and, in general, as time passes.<br />
<br />
Since the 2012 flood - when tons of mud invaded the<br />
village’s main road, shops and and homes, isolating the area and<br />
taking three lives - Margherita Ermirio has agreed with the various land lords to take<br />
over 6,000 square meters of land parcels that needed to be cleaned up,<br />
in order to fix them and thus prevent land slides, but also to show to<br />
the younger generations that agriculture is still possible in the<br />
Cinque Terre.
    CIPG_20170531_NYT_CinqueTerre__M3_69...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 JULY 2017: Raffaele Capparelli (52), owner of the Pasticceria Capriccio,  puts babas to dry after soaking them in a mix of rum, water and sugar, here in his workshop in Naples, Italy, on July 14th 2017. Raffaele Capparelli is a patissier since 1984, when he inherited the art of pastry making from his father.<br />
<br />
The babà is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream.<br />
<br />
The original form of the baba was similar to the babka, a tall, cylindrical yeast cake (babka is still cooked in Ukraine, Poland and in Ukrainian and Polish communities over the world). The name means "old woman" or "grandmother" in the Slavic languages; babka is a diminutive of baba.<br />
<br />
The modern baba au rhum (rum baba), with dried fruit and soaking in rum, was invented in the rue Montorgueil in Paris, France, in 1835 or before.<br />
<br />
The baba was later brought to Naples by Neapolitan cooks sent by Maria Carolina of Austria, the wife of the Spanish King Ferdinand I of Bourbon, to her sister Marie Antoinette.
    CIPG_20170714_CULBACK-Baba_M3_0477.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo is seen here walking by the dry fruit processing machine in the Caudullo family-owned business in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
<br />
Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
<br />
The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1522.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 JULY 2017: Raffaele Capparelli (52), owner of the Pasticceria Capriccio,  puts babas to dry after soaking them in a mix of rum, water and sugar, here in his workshop in Naples, Italy, on July 14th 2017. Raffaele Capparelli is a patissier since 1984, when he inherited the art of pastry making from his father.<br />
<br />
The babà is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream.<br />
<br />
The original form of the baba was similar to the babka, a tall, cylindrical yeast cake (babka is still cooked in Ukraine, Poland and in Ukrainian and Polish communities over the world). The name means "old woman" or "grandmother" in the Slavic languages; babka is a diminutive of baba.<br />
<br />
The modern baba au rhum (rum baba), with dried fruit and soaking in rum, was invented in the rue Montorgueil in Paris, France, in 1835 or before.<br />
<br />
The baba was later brought to Naples by Neapolitan cooks sent by Maria Carolina of Austria, the wife of the Spanish King Ferdinand I of Bourbon, to her sister Marie Antoinette.
    CIPG_20170714_CULBACK-Baba_M3_0528.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 JULY 2017: Raffaele Capparelli (52), owner of the Pasticceria Capriccio,  puts babas to dry after soaking them in a mix of rum, water and sugar, here in his workshop in Naples, Italy, on July 14th 2017. Raffaele Capparelli is a patissier since 1984, when he inherited the art of pastry making from his father.<br />
<br />
The babà is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream.<br />
<br />
The original form of the baba was similar to the babka, a tall, cylindrical yeast cake (babka is still cooked in Ukraine, Poland and in Ukrainian and Polish communities over the world). The name means "old woman" or "grandmother" in the Slavic languages; babka is a diminutive of baba.<br />
<br />
The modern baba au rhum (rum baba), with dried fruit and soaking in rum, was invented in the rue Montorgueil in Paris, France, in 1835 or before.<br />
<br />
The baba was later brought to Naples by Neapolitan cooks sent by Maria Carolina of Austria, the wife of the Spanish King Ferdinand I of Bourbon, to her sister Marie Antoinette.
    CIPG_20170714_CULBACK-Baba_M3_0485.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 JULY 2017: Raffaele Capparelli (52), owner of the Pasticceria Capriccio,  puts babas to dry after soaking them in a mix of rum, water and sugar, here in his workshop in Naples, Italy, on July 14th 2017. Raffaele Capparelli is a patissier since 1984, when he inherited the art of pastry making from his father.<br />
<br />
The babà is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream.<br />
<br />
The original form of the baba was similar to the babka, a tall, cylindrical yeast cake (babka is still cooked in Ukraine, Poland and in Ukrainian and Polish communities over the world). The name means "old woman" or "grandmother" in the Slavic languages; babka is a diminutive of baba.<br />
<br />
The modern baba au rhum (rum baba), with dried fruit and soaking in rum, was invented in the rue Montorgueil in Paris, France, in 1835 or before.<br />
<br />
The baba was later brought to Naples by Neapolitan cooks sent by Maria Carolina of Austria, the wife of the Spanish King Ferdinand I of Bourbon, to her sister Marie Antoinette.
    CIPG_20170714_CULBACK-Baba_M3_0447.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 JULY 2017: Raffaele Capparelli (52), owner of the Pasticceria Capriccio,  puts babas to dry after soaking them in a mix of rum, water and sugar, here in his workshop in Naples, Italy, on July 14th 2017. Raffaele Capparelli is a patissier since 1984, when he inherited the art of pastry making from his father.<br />
<br />
The babà is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream.<br />
<br />
The original form of the baba was similar to the babka, a tall, cylindrical yeast cake (babka is still cooked in Ukraine, Poland and in Ukrainian and Polish communities over the world). The name means "old woman" or "grandmother" in the Slavic languages; babka is a diminutive of baba.<br />
<br />
The modern baba au rhum (rum baba), with dried fruit and soaking in rum, was invented in the rue Montorgueil in Paris, France, in 1835 or before.<br />
<br />
The baba was later brought to Naples by Neapolitan cooks sent by Maria Carolina of Austria, the wife of the Spanish King Ferdinand I of Bourbon, to her sister Marie Antoinette.
    CIPG_20170714_CULBACK-Baba_M3_0430.jpg
  • SAN PIETRO VERNOTICO, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2014:  Dina Palmisano (68, retired school teacher) cleans the wooden board used to dry the fresh orecchiete and cavatelli pasta she prepared together with her daughters  Cinzia Rascazzo (40), founder of a Lecce cooking and food-tour outfit called Stile Mediterraneo, and Marika (42, cardiologist) in her house and school location in San Pietro Vernotico, Italy, on April 4th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mrs Rascazzo, an extra virgin oil taster, wine sommelier and Harvard MBA who worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and London, quit investment banking several years ago to “do something to help my region”.“When I was living abroad I always noticed that only Tuscany and Northern Italian regions were getting all of the attention,” said Ms. Rascazzo. “Nobody knew about Puglia or our way of eating, or our wines, or our producers. It was just Mafia, pizza spaghetti--the usual things associated with the south.” Today she conducts food tours, leads visits to local producers and oversees cooking classes, where guests learn to make orecchiette, sweet-and-sour bell peppers, cakes with ricotta cheese and much besides. She is frequently joined by her sister, who draws on her medical background to impart scientific and nutritional details about the dishes. Dr. Rascazzo’s recipes and information come together in her English ebook, “The Cuisine of Southern Italian Women: Mediterranean Secrets for a Healthy and Happy Life.”
    CIPG_20140404_NYT_LecceCooking__M3_5...jpg
  • SAN PIETRO VERNOTICO, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2014: Cinzia Rascazzo (40), founder of a Lecce cooking and food-tour outfit called Stile Mediterraneo, brings a wooden board with the fresh  orecchiette and cavatelli pasta outside on the balcony to make them dry, at her parents' home and school location in San Pietro Vernotico, Italy, on April 4th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mrs Rascazzo, an extra virgin oil taster, wine sommelier and Harvard MBA who worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and London, quit investment banking several years ago to “do something to help my region”.“When I was living abroad I always noticed that only Tuscany and Northern Italian regions were getting all of the attention,” said Ms. Rascazzo. “Nobody knew about Puglia or our way of eating, or our wines, or our producers. It was just Mafia, pizza spaghetti--the usual things associated with the south.” Today she conducts food tours, leads visits to local producers and oversees cooking classes, where guests learn to make orecchiette, sweet-and-sour bell peppers, cakes with ricotta cheese and much besides. She is frequently joined by her sister, who draws on her medical background to impart scientific and nutritional details about the dishes. Dr. Rascazzo’s recipes and information come together in her English ebook, “The Cuisine of Southern Italian Women: Mediterranean Secrets for a Healthy and Happy Life.”
    CIPG_20140404_NYT_LecceCooking__M3_5...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 31 MAY 2013: A visitor at Elisabetta Benassi's "The Dry Salvages" (2013) - approximately 10,000 bricks, sand, book - at the Italian Pavillon, at the Arsenale of the Biennale in Venice, Italy, on May 31st 2013. <br />
<br />
The Italian Pavilion presents vice versa, an ideal journey through Italian art of today,<br />
an itinerary that tells of identities, history and landscapes - real and imaginary - exploring the complexity and layers that characterize the country's artistic vicissitudes. The Italian Pavillon is curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi,<br />
who describes the exhibition as, ?A portrait of recent art, read as an atlas of themes and attitudes in dialogue with the historical legacy and current affairs, with both a local and international dimension. A cross-dialogue of correspondences, derivations and differences between acclaimed maestros and artists of later generations". The exhibition is divided into seven spaces - six rooms and a garden - that each house<br />
the work of two artists,<br />
who are brought together on the basis of the affinity of their<br />
respective poetics and common interests in themes, ideas and practices.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130531_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • GRAGNANO, ITALY - 15 SEPTEMBER 2020: Chili pepper linguini pasta are seen here as they dry in a cell at La Fabbrica della Pasta di Gragnano, a family owned pasta factory in Gragnano, a hilltop town near the Amalfi Coast with a 500-year history of pasta manufacturing, on September 15th 2020.<br />
<br />
Amazon has been one of the biggest winners in the pandemic as people in its most established markets — the United States, Germany and Britain — have turned to it to buy everything from toilet paper to board games. What has been less noticed is that people in countries that had traditionally resisted the e-commerce giant are now also falling into Amazon’s grasp .<br />
The shift has been particularly pronounced in Italy, which was one of the first countries hard hit by the virus. Italians have traditionally preferred to shop at local stores and pay cash. But after the government imposed Europe’s first nationwide virus lockdown, Italians began shopping online in record numbers. <br />
75 percent of Italians shopped online during the lockdown. In 2020, total online sales are estimated to grow 26 percent to a record 22.7 billion euros, according to researchers from Polytechnic University of Milan.
    CIPG_20200915_NYT-Amazon-Italy_7M304...jpg
  • SAN PIETRO VERNOTICO, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2014: Fresh orecchiette and cavatelli pasta dry on wooden chairs on a balcony at the Stile Mediterraneo cooking school in San Pietro Vernotico, Italy, on April 4th 2014.<br />
<br />
Mrs Rascazzo, an extra virgin oil taster, wine sommelier and Harvard MBA who worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and London, quit investment banking several years ago to “do something to help my region”.“When I was living abroad I always noticed that only Tuscany and Northern Italian regions were getting all of the attention,” said Ms. Rascazzo. “Nobody knew about Puglia or our way of eating, or our wines, or our producers. It was just Mafia, pizza spaghetti--the usual things associated with the south.” Today she conducts food tours, leads visits to local producers and oversees cooking classes, where guests learn to make orecchiette, sweet-and-sour bell peppers, cakes with ricotta cheese and much besides. She is frequently joined by her sister, who draws on her medical background to impart scientific and nutritional details about the dishes. Dr. Rascazzo’s recipes and information come together in her English ebook, “The Cuisine of Southern Italian Women: Mediterranean Secrets for a Healthy and Happy Life.”
    CIPG_20140404_NYT_LecceCooking__M3_5...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 31 MAY 2013: A visitor at Elisabetta Benassi's "The Dry Salvages" (2013) - approximately 10,000 bricks, sand, book - at the Italian Pavillon, at the Arsenale of the Biennale in Venice, Italy, on May 31st 2013. <br />
<br />
The Italian Pavilion presents vice versa, an ideal journey through Italian art of today,<br />
an itinerary that tells of identities, history and landscapes - real and imaginary - exploring the complexity and layers that characterize the country's artistic vicissitudes. The Italian Pavillon is curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi,<br />
who describes the exhibition as, ?A portrait of recent art, read as an atlas of themes and attitudes in dialogue with the historical legacy and current affairs, with both a local and international dimension. A cross-dialogue of correspondences, derivations and differences between acclaimed maestros and artists of later generations". The exhibition is divided into seven spaces - six rooms and a garden - that each house<br />
the work of two artists,<br />
who are brought together on the basis of the affinity of their<br />
respective poetics and common interests in themes, ideas and practices.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130531_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 31 MAY 2013: Elisabetta Benassi's "The Dry Salvages" (2013) - approximately 10,000 bricks, sand, book - and Gianfranco Baruchello's "Piccolo sistema" (2012-2013) - wooden structure and various materials - at the Italian Pavillon, at the Arsenale of the Biennale in Venice, Italy, on May 31st 2013. <br />
<br />
The Italian Pavilion presents vice versa, an ideal journey through Italian art of today,<br />
an itinerary that tells of identities, history and landscapes - real and imaginary - exploring the complexity and layers that characterize the country's artistic vicissitudes. The Italian Pavillon is curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi,<br />
who describes the exhibition as, ?A portrait of recent art, read as an atlas of themes and attitudes in dialogue with the historical legacy and current affairs, with both a local and international dimension. A cross-dialogue of correspondences, derivations and differences between acclaimed maestros and artists of later generations". The exhibition is divided into seven spaces - six rooms and a garden - that each house<br />
the work of two artists,<br />
who are brought together on the basis of the affinity of their<br />
respective poetics and common interests in themes, ideas and practices.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130531_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 31 MAY 2013: Elisabetta Benassi's "The Dry Salvages" (2013) - approximately 10,000 bricks, sand, book - at the Italian Pavillon, at the Arsenale of the Biennale in Venice, Italy, on May 31st 2013. <br />
<br />
The Italian Pavilion presents vice versa, an ideal journey through Italian art of today,<br />
an itinerary that tells of identities, history and landscapes - real and imaginary - exploring the complexity and layers that characterize the country's artistic vicissitudes. The Italian Pavillon is curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi,<br />
who describes the exhibition as, ?A portrait of recent art, read as an atlas of themes and attitudes in dialogue with the historical legacy and current affairs, with both a local and international dimension. A cross-dialogue of correspondences, derivations and differences between acclaimed maestros and artists of later generations". The exhibition is divided into seven spaces - six rooms and a garden - that each house<br />
the work of two artists,<br />
who are brought together on the basis of the affinity of their<br />
respective poetics and common interests in themes, ideas and practices.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130531_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 30 MAY 2013: Two men stand on Elisabetta Benassi's "The Dry Salvages" (2013) - <br />
approximately 10,000 bricks, sand, book - at the Italian Pavillon, at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, on May 30th 2013. <br />
<br />
The Italian Pavilion presents vice versa, an ideal journey through Italian art of today,<br />
an itinerary that tells of identities, history and landscapes - real and imaginary - exploring the complexity and layers that characterize the country's artistic vicissitudes. The Italian Pavillon is curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi,<br />
who describes the exhibition as, ?A portrait of recent art, read as an atlas of themes and attitudes in dialogue with the historical legacy and current affairs, with both a local and international dimension. A cross-dialogue of correspondences, derivations and differences between acclaimed maestros and artists of later generations". The exhibition is divided into seven spaces - six rooms and a garden - that each house<br />
the work of two artists,<br />
who are brought together on the basis of the affinity of their<br />
respective poetics and common interests in themes, ideas and practices.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130530_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 30 MAY 2013: Elisabetta Benassi's "The Dry Salvages" (2013) - <br />
approximately 10,000 bricks, sand, book - at the Italian Pavillon, at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, on May 30th 2013. <br />
<br />
The Italian Pavilion presents vice versa, an ideal journey through Italian art of today,<br />
an itinerary that tells of identities, history and landscapes - real and imaginary - exploring the complexity and layers that characterize the country's artistic vicissitudes. The Italian Pavillon is curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi,<br />
who describes the exhibition as, ?A portrait of recent art, read as an atlas of themes and attitudes in dialogue with the historical legacy and current affairs, with both a local and international dimension. A cross-dialogue of correspondences, derivations and differences between acclaimed maestros and artists of later generations". The exhibition is divided into seven spaces - six rooms and a garden - that each house<br />
the work of two artists,<br />
who are brought together on the basis of the affinity of their<br />
respective poetics and common interests in themes, ideas and practices.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130530_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 29 MAY 2013: A dry leaf fallen from the partially removed roof of the Australian Pavillon is here on the floor of the lower level, at the Pavillon of Australia,  Giardini of the Biennale, in Venice, Italy, on May 29th 20113. <br />
<br />
Gill works in the area of the ephemeral and the domestic, with its daily habits and repetitions in a lived social reality. The Australian Pavilion in the Venice Giardini della Biennale hosts Gill's site-specific project, a few months before the structure will be dismantled and discarded for a new pavilion. Simryn.  The upper floor holds the series of twelve large screens of collaged drawings, Let Go, Lets Go, and the lower section shows the series of mine photographs, Eyes and Storms, while the roof is partially removed, exposing both works in equal measure to the elements. During six months, from June to November 2013, what visitors will experience is a process of disintegration: the transformation of Gill's artwork by sunlight, rain and wind, by the birds and insects feeding on the paper featuring insects.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130529_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo (57) shows forgotten and unpicked dried pistachio drupes in his 10-hectares land with hundreds of pistachio trees in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
<br />
Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
<br />
The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1634.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Forgotten and unpicked dried pistachio drupes are seen here on a pistacchio tree in Nunzio Caudullo's land in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
<br />
Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
<br />
The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1609.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: An employee checks the penne candela (a type of pasta) after being dried, at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
    CIPG_20180221_NYT_Puglia_M3_6253.jpg
  • RUTIGLIANO, ITALY - 21 FEBRUARY 2018: An employee checks the penne candela (a type of pasta) after being dried, at the Divella pasta factory in Rutigliano, Italy, on February 21st 2018.<br />
<br />
Opened in 1895, the plant just outside the regional capital of Bari is run by the grandson of the founder, Francesco Divella. Divella has exports grow substantially and is a prime example of the success of the region in recent years. Yet this has led to very few jobs, given that the plant is highly automated, with more on the way: they just bought a self-driving forklift to handle warehouse work and have already deployed robotic arms that place product into boxes. Divella is an example of how Italy's recent success is not lifting enough people to make a difference in sentiment.
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  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Unshelled and desiccated pistachios produced by the Caudullo family-run business are seen here in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_2184.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Unshelled and desiccated pistachios produced by the Caudullo family-run business are seen here in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_2174.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Desiccated shelled pistachios are stored here in the Cauldullo family-run business in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_2143.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: (L-R) Pistachio cream and unpeeled pistachio flour  produced by the Caudullo family-run business are seen here in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_2100.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Unpeeled pistachio flour produced by the Caudullo family-run business is seen here in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_2063.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Unpeeled pistachio grains produced by the Caudullo family-run business are seen here in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_2031.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Peeled pistachios produced by the Caudullo family-run business are seen here in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1990.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Peeled pistachios produced by the Caudullo family-run business are seen here in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1983.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Peeled pistachios flour produced by the Caudullo family-run business is seen here in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1952.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Unshelled pistachios produced by the Caudullo family-run business are seen here in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1914.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Desiccated shelled pistachios are stored here in the Cauldullo family-run business in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1845.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Desiccated shelled pistachios are stored here in the Cauldullo family-run business in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1837.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo's pistachio trees are seen here in his 10-hectares land with hundreds of pistachio trees in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1822.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo (57) walks in his 10-hectares land  with hundred of pistachio trees in front of a fuming Mount Etna, the active Sicilian volcano, in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1802.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo (57) walks in his 10-hectares land  with hundred of pistachio trees in front of a fuming Mount Etna, the active Sicilian volcano, in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1774.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo (57) poses for a portrait in his 10-hectares land  in front of a fuming Mount Etna, the active Sicilian volcano, in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1716.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo's pistachio trees are seen here in front a fuming Mount Etna, the active Sicilian volcano, in his 10-hectares land with hundreds of pistachio trees in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1709.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo's pistachio trees are seen here in front a fuming Mount Etna, the active Sicilian volcano, in his 10-hectares land with hundreds of pistachio trees in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1687.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Pistachio trees are seen here in front a fuming Mount Etna, the active Sicilian volcano, in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1675.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo (57) poses for a portrait his pistachio trees in his 10-hectares land  in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1671.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo (57) checks his pistachio trees in his 10-hectares land  in front of a fuming Mount Etna, the active Sicilian volcano, in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1656.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo (57) opens the gate to his 10-hectares land with hundreds of pistachio trees in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1572.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Pistachios are seen here after being processed in a machine that removes their shells, in the Caudullo family-owned business in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1545.jpg
  • BRONTE, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Nunzio Caudullo (57) shows pistachios after being processed in a machine that removes their shells, in the Caudullo family-owned business in Bronte, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1497.jpg
  • CATENANUOVA, ITALY - 24 NOVEMBER 2017: A view of Mount Etna, the active volcano in Sicily, seen from Catenanuova, Italy, on November 24th 2017. <br />
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Since the 1950s the Caudullo family has been processing and commercialising dried fruits, particularly pistachio nuts in the territory of Bronte, in the slopes of Mount Etna Sicily, Italy. The Caudullos own a dozen of hectares of land where pistachios are picked every two years, resulting in a production of an average of 2 tons of pistachio products after each harvest. Their company handles the desiccation, unshelling, peeling and optical selection of the semifinished and derivative pistachios. Such products are shelled pistachio nuts, unshelled pistachios, peeled pistachios, pistachios grain, pistachios flour and pistachios cream.<br />
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The Bronte pistachios, also known as the "green gold", are the most important economic resource of that area, and from 2009 they've been granted the DOP marque (Protected Designation of Origin), following the Slow Food movement.
    CIPG_20171124_NYT_Pistachios_M3_1457.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 JULY 2017: A babà made bu Raffaele Capparelli (52), owner of the Pasticceria Capriccio, in Naples, Italy, on July 14th 2017. Raffaele Capparelli is a patissier since 1984, when he inherited the art of pastry making from his father.<br />
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The babà is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream.<br />
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The original form of the baba was similar to the babka, a tall, cylindrical yeast cake (babka is still cooked in Ukraine, Poland and in Ukrainian and Polish communities over the world). The name means "old woman" or "grandmother" in the Slavic languages; babka is a diminutive of baba.<br />
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The modern baba au rhum (rum baba), with dried fruit and soaking in rum, was invented in the rue Montorgueil in Paris, France, in 1835 or before.<br />
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The baba was later brought to Naples by Neapolitan cooks sent by Maria Carolina of Austria, the wife of the Spanish King Ferdinand I of Bourbon, to her sister Marie Antoinette.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 JULY 2017: A babà made bu Raffaele Capparelli (52), owner of the Pasticceria Capriccio, in Naples, Italy, on July 14th 2017. Raffaele Capparelli is a patissier since 1984, when he inherited the art of pastry making from his father.<br />
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The babà is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream.<br />
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The original form of the baba was similar to the babka, a tall, cylindrical yeast cake (babka is still cooked in Ukraine, Poland and in Ukrainian and Polish communities over the world). The name means "old woman" or "grandmother" in the Slavic languages; babka is a diminutive of baba.<br />
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The modern baba au rhum (rum baba), with dried fruit and soaking in rum, was invented in the rue Montorgueil in Paris, France, in 1835 or before.<br />
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The baba was later brought to Naples by Neapolitan cooks sent by Maria Carolina of Austria, the wife of the Spanish King Ferdinand I of Bourbon, to her sister Marie Antoinette.
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