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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is harvested here in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million tr
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_94...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every yea
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_93...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every yea
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_93...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is harvested here in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million tr
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_90...jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013: Teresa Elena Cinquantaquattro, superintendent of Pompeii since 2013, poses for a portrait by Porta Marina, at the entrance of the Pompeii archeological site, in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013.<br />
<br />
In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times  in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013.<br />
<br />
In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4556.jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every yea
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_92...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is harvested here in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million tr
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_90...jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013:   Architect Valerio Papaccio, resposible of the Technical Office of Pompeii, explains the strategy of the Great Pompeii Project, which will be focused less on individual monuments and more on a comprehensive and global maintenance of the site, including improving drainage, in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013. "Stones are like words",  Papaccio said. "It's our job to give these words a syntax in order to preserve the testimony of a civilization that  was passed on to us, and that we must pass on to who will come after us"...In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. ..Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre...Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times  in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013...In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. ..Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de A
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4149.jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
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  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
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La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
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La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
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La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
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La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
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La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • BACOLI, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2021: The Sibilla Winery in Naples, Italy, on November 27th 2021.<br />
<br />
La Sibilla winery and vineyards spread out around in fertile heart of the Phlegraean Fields, a now-dormant volcanic region just outside of Naples. The land includes the archeological park of Baiae and the nearby Roman aqueduct’s ancient cisterns, which are now home to La Sibilla’s wine cellar.<br />
<br />
Five generations of winemakers are linked by this land, passed down from father to son since the early 1800s<br />
<br />
La Sibilla produces an average of 70,000 bottles a year, of which only 10 percent remain in the province of Naples. The rest of the winery’s production is exported, mostly to the United States where it has a distributor on each coast. <br />
<br />
“Managing a vineyard that is 200 years old means thinking now for future generations” says Luigi. “Ours is a heroic agriculture: low mechanization, absolutely natural wines, without any addition of chemicals. It’s all done in the family, from the earth to the bottle. To make a true, natural wine, the process starts from the earth and then continues in the cellar.”
    SMAS_20211127_CULBACK_Cantina-Sibill...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 29 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 29th 2018.<br />
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<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181130_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_21...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181129_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_19...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181129_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_19...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181129_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_19...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
    CIPG_20181129_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_18...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, eats a sandwich under a  Villa Romana olive tree, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety with a hydraulic wand,  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gath
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_92...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety with a hydraulic wand,  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gath
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_90...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, harvests the Villa Romana olive variety with a hydraulic wand,  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gath
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_89...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, poses for a portrait by a Villa Romana olive tree in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in I
    CIPG_20181128_SAVEUR-LakeGarda_M3_01...jpg
  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  A  Villa Romana olive tree, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  is seen here in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, eats a sandwich under a  Villa Romana olive tree, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here),  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • GARGNANO, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2018:  Sergio Cozzaglio, founder of La Zadruga, poses for a portrait in a hillside olive grove in Gargnano, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 28th 2018. <br />
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The hydraulic wand has vibrating fingers that send the fruit tumbling from the branches into mats on the ground. The Villa Romana olive variety is grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here).<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivator
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  • TOSCOLANO MADERNO, ITALY - 27 NOVEMBER 2018:  The Villa Romana olive variety, grown amidst the first century AD ruins of the residence of the Nonni Arrii (an upper-class Roman family who lived here), is seen here  in Toscolano Maderno, a northern village on the western shore of Lake Garda, Italy, on November 27th 2018. <br />
<br />
Villa Romana became  an olive oil produced by La Zadruga (founded by Sergio and his wife Ilaria Galetta). It won the highest possible accolade—three green leaves, denoting absolute excellence—in the prestigious Gambero Rosso guidebook to the best olive oils in Italy. The Villa Romana is pressed from a cultivar, or variety, of olive that was unknown to modern science until 2016<br />
<br />
Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, is an odd micro-biome of Mediterranean olive-oil culture in the midst of frost-prone, butter-oriented Lombardy. Though its northern extreme is at the same latitude as Fargo, North Dakota, Garda’s shores are girded by lemon and palm trees, as well as olive orchards, which climb the hillsides that surround the lake to heights of 1,500 feet. Lake Garda, overlooked by the Dolomites, snowcapped in early winter, is the northernmost point in the world where olives can be reliably cultivated. Lake Garda, where there is a record of uninterrupted cultivation since the thirteenth century, has a reputation for producing delicate, mild-flavored oils that has pleased more conservative northern European palates since the Renaissance.<br />
In contrast to Spain, France, and Greece, where a few star cultivars dominate production, Italy, with its multiplicity of soils and microclimates, has always been the Amazonian rainforest of olive biodiversity. Every year, the fruit from 179 million trees—three for every man, woman, and child in the nation—is gathered by 825,000 separate cultivators, to be pressed in 4,900 mills. At last count, there were 530 distinct olive varieties in Italy.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The theare of Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
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Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: Boys play soccer in the garden of Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
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Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
    CIPG_20150715_NYT-VillaTorlonia__M3_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: A woman walks her dog in the garden of Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
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Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The interior of the theatre of Villa Torlonia, where the majority of the decorations were made by Costantino Brumidi, the artist who painted the fresco in the Capitol building in Washington D.C., in Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
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Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The Casina delle Civette (House of the Owls) is here in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
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 The Casina delle Civette, which was the residence of Prince Giovanni Torlonia until his death in 1938, is the result of a series of transformations and additions to the nineteenth century “Swiss Cabin”, which, positioned at the edge of the park and hidden by an artificial hillock, was originally intended as a refuge from the formality of the main residence. Today the Casina delle Civette is a Museum of Stained Glass.<br />
<br />
Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
    CIPG_20150715_NYT-VillaTorlonia__M3_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: A woman enters Villa Torlonia from its main entrance in via Nomentana, in Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
<br />
Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
    CIPG_20150715_NYT-VillaTorlonia__M3_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: A woman walking in the garden of Villa Torlonia is seen from the Casino Nobile of Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
<br />
Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The sculpture of Pandora by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi is here in the Casino Nobile (home to the Villa Torlonia Museum), in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
<br />
Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
    CIPG_20150715_NYT-VillaTorlonia__M3_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The ballroom of the Casino Nobile (home to the Villa Torlonia Museum) is here in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
<br />
Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
    CIPG_20150715_NYT-VillaTorlonia__M3_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The ballroom of the Casino Nobile (home to the Villa Torlonia Museum) is here in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
<br />
Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
    CIPG_20150715_NYT-VillaTorlonia__M3_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The bunker, built between 1942 and 1943 to protect Benito Mussolini and his family, is here under the Casino Nobile (and Museum of Villa Torlonia) in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
<br />
Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
    CIPG_20150715_NYT-VillaTorlonia__M3_...jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  A tourist read a map in the atrium of the House of Argus in the archeological site of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. <br />
<br />
The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
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  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  Tourists in one of the uncovered houses of the archeological site of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. <br />
<br />
The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
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  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  Frescoes in the College of the Augusales in the archeological site of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. <br />
<br />
The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_43.jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012: A young tourist observes a shop in the Decumanus Maximus street in Herculaneum, Italy,  on 2 August, 2012. <br />
<br />
The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_37.jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012: A tourists reads the map of the archeological site of Herculaneum, Italy, in the Decumanus Maximus street on 2 August, 2012. <br />
<br />
The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_36.jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012: The mosaic of Neptune and Amphitrite in House Number 22 in the archeological site of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. <br />
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
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  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  A construction worker in the house of Neptune and Amphitrite (House Number 22) in the archeological site of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012.<br />
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
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  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012: Tourists photograph the mosaic of Neptune and  Amphitrite in House Number 22 in the archeological site of Herculaneum, Italy, on  2 August, 2012. <br />
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_32.jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  A family of toursists rest in the archeological site of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. <br />
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
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  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  Emmanuela Faenza, 30, collaborator restorer of the Herculaneum Conservatoin Project, cleans a fresco in the House of Argus in the archeological site of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. <br />
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_26.jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  Marco Biglietto, 37, collaborator restorer of the Herculaneum Conservatoin Project, works on the restoration of the House of Argus in the archeological site of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. <br />
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_25.jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  Skeletons are here in one of the six boat chamber of the ancient seafront of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. Excavations in the port area of Herculaneum initially turned up more than 55 skeletons. The skeletons were found on the seafront, where it is believed they had fled in an attempt to escape the volcanic eruption. About 300 skeletons were founds in the ancient town of Herculaneum.<br />
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_21.jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  Skeletons are here in one of the six boat chamber of the ancient seafront of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. Excavations in the port area of Herculaneum initially turned up more than 55 skeletons. The skeletons were found on the seafront, where it is believed they had fled in an attempt to escape the volcanic eruption. About 300 skeletons were founds in the ancient town of Herculaneum.<br />
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_20.jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  Skeletons are here in one of the six boat chamber of the ancient seafront of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. Excavations in the port area of Herculaneum initially turned up more than 55 skeletons. The skeletons were found on the seafront, where it is believed they had fled in an attempt to escape the volcanic eruption. About 300 skeletons were founds in the ancient town of Herculaneum.<br />
<br />
The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_18.jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012:  A skeleton are here in one of the six boat chamber of the ancient seafront of Herculaneum, Italy, on 2 August, 2012. Excavations in the port area of Herculaneum initially turned up more than 55 skeletons. The skeletons were found on the seafront, where it is believed they had fled in an attempt to escape the volcanic eruption. About 300 skeletons were founds in the ancient town of Herculaneum.<br />
<br />
The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_15.jpg
  • Herculaneum, Italy - 2 August, 2012: A couple sits on the terrace overlooking the excavation of the archeological site, the new city and Mount Vesuvius in Herculaneum, Italy,  on 2 August, 2012. <br />
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) is a public/private initiative launched in 2001 for the conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Herculaneum. This ancient Roman city in Italy was destroyed and buried along with Pompeii by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It has a history of excavation dating back to the early eighteenth century.<br />
The project was set up by David W. Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute, together with Pietro Giovanni Guzzo of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, to take the measures necessary to provide a response to the serious condition of the site after decades of neglect.
    Herculaneum_01.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 24 September 2013: A block of travertine marble, possibly belonging to a covered underground Roman villa, is here in the Aqueduct Park in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2013.<br />
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The Parco degli Acquedotti is a public park in Rome, Italy. It is part of the Appian Way Regional Park and is of approximately 15 ha. The park is named after the aqueducts, crossed on one side by the Aqua Felix and containing part of the Aqua Claudia and the remains of Villa delle Vignacce to the South East.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 24 September 2013:A man runs by the ruins of the Aqua Claudia, a Roman aqueduct built between 38 AD and 52 AD as seen from the Aqueduct Park in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2013.<br />
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The Parco degli Acquedotti is a public park in Rome, Italy. It is part of the Appian Way Regional Park and is of approximately 15 ha. The park is named after the aqueducts, crossed on one side by the Aqua Felix and containing part of the Aqua Claudia and the remains of Villa delle Vignacce to the South East.
    CIPG_20130924_IHT_Aqueduct__M3_7519.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 24 September 2013: Luciano Di Vico, a 67 years old retired credit manager and now President of the Association of Volunteers for the Protection and Conservation of the Aqueduct Park, walks in a path that he created in the park, in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2013. The ruins of the Aqua Claudia, a Roman aqueduct built between 38 AD and 52 AD, can be seen in the background.<br />
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The Parco degli Acquedotti is a public park in Rome, Italy. It is part of the Appian Way Regional Park and is of approximately 15 ha. The park is named after the aqueducts, crossed on one side by the Aqua Felix and containing part of the Aqua Claudia and the remains of Villa delle Vignacce to the South East.
    CIPG_20130924_IHT_Aqueduct__M3_7303.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 24 September 2013: Visitors enjoy the lake by the ruins of the Aqua Claudia, a Roman aqueduct built between 38 AD and 52 AD as seen from the Aqueduct Park in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2013.<br />
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The Parco degli Acquedotti is a public park in Rome, Italy. It is part of the Appian Way Regional Park and is of approximately 15 ha. The park is named after the aqueducts, crossed on one side by the Aqua Felix and containing part of the Aqua Claudia and the remains of Villa delle Vignacce to the South East.
    CIPG_20130924_IHT_Aqueduct__M3_7214.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 24 September 2013: Ruins of the Aqua Claudia, a Roman aqueduct built between 38 AD and 52 AD as seen from the Aqueduct Park in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2013.<br />
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The Parco degli Acquedotti is a public park in Rome, Italy. It is part of the Appian Way Regional Park and is of approximately 15 ha. The park is named after the aqueducts, crossed on one side by the Aqua Felix and containing part of the Aqua Claudia and the remains of Villa delle Vignacce to the South East.
    CIPG_20130924_IHT_Aqueduct__M3_7141.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 24 September 2013: Ruins of the Aqua Claudia, a Roman aqueduct built between 38 AD and 52 AD as seen from the Aqueduct Park in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2013.<br />
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The Parco degli Acquedotti is a public park in Rome, Italy. It is part of the Appian Way Regional Park and is of approximately 15 ha. The park is named after the aqueducts, crossed on one side by the Aqua Felix and containing part of the Aqua Claudia and the remains of Villa delle Vignacce to the South East.
    CIPG_20130924_IHT_Aqueduct__M3_7140.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 24 September 2013: Luciano Di Vico, a 67 years old retired credit manager and now President of the Association of Volunteers for the Protection and Conservation of the Aqueduct Park, walks in a path that he created in the park, in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2013. The ruins of the Aqua Claudia, a Roman aqueduct built between 38 AD and 52 AD, and other volunteers can be seen in the background.<br />
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The Parco degli Acquedotti is a public park in Rome, Italy. It is part of the Appian Way Regional Park and is of approximately 15 ha. The park is named after the aqueducts, crossed on one side by the Aqua Felix and containing part of the Aqua Claudia and the remains of Villa delle Vignacce to the South East.
    CIPG_20130924_IHT_Aqueduct__M3_7104.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 24 September 2013: Ruins of the Aqua Claudia, a Roman aqueduct built between 38 AD and 52 AD as seen from the Aqueduct Park in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2013.<br />
<br />
The Parco degli Acquedotti is a public park in Rome, Italy. It is part of the Appian Way Regional Park and is of approximately 15 ha. The park is named after the aqueducts, crossed on one side by the Aqua Felix and containing part of the Aqua Claudia and the remains of Villa delle Vignacce to the South East.
    CIPG_20130924_IHT_Aqueduct__M3_6955.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 24 September 2013: Luciano Di Vico, a 67 years old retired credit manager and now President of the Association of Volunteers for the Protection and Conservation of the Aqueduct Park, is here volunteering in the park, in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2013. The ruins of the Aqua Claudia, a Roman aqueduct built between 38 AD and 52 AD, can be seen in the background.<br />
<br />
The Parco degli Acquedotti is a public park in Rome, Italy. It is part of the Appian Way Regional Park and is of approximately 15 ha. The park is named after the aqueducts, crossed on one side by the Aqua Felix and containing part of the Aqua Claudia and the remains of Villa delle Vignacce to the South East.
    CIPG_20130924_IHT_Aqueduct__M3_6914.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 5 APRIL 2013: Architect Antonio Irlando, founder of the watchdog OPC Italia investigating on the archeological site of Pompeii, walks by the Amphitheater (70BC), one of the oldest and best preserved aphitheaters in existence which held 20,000 spectators, in Pompeii, Italy, on April 5th, 2013.<br />
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In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
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Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
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Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • POMPEII, ITALY - 5 APRIL 2013: A "Cash only" sign is seen here atthe ticket office of the archeological site of Pompeii, Italy, on April 5th, 2013. Under the terms of a ten-year-old outsourcing bid, the ticket office does not accept credit cards, raising concerns about fraud.<br />
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In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130405_NYT_Pompei__MG_5029.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 5 APRIL 2013: Mayor of Pompeii Claudio d'Alessio, 51, poses in his office in the town hall in Pompeii, Italy, on April 5th, 2013.<br />
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In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130405_NYT_Pompei__MG_4958.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 5 APRIL 2013:   A man walk by the public park of the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary in Pompeii, Italy, on April 5th, 2013.<br />
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In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130405_NYT_Pompei__MG_4915.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 5 APRIL 2013:  The sacristy of the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, in Pompeii, Italy, on April 5th, 2013.<br />
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In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130405_NYT_Pompei__MG_4878.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 5 APRIL 2013:   A faithful steps out of the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary, in Pompeii, Italy, on April 5th, 2013.<br />
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In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130405_NYT_Pompei__MG_4832.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013:   One of the many street dogs that populate Pompeii is here in a domus (house) in Via del Foro (Forum street) in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013.<br />
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In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4652.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013:   Tourists rest by the forum, the city's main square, dating the 2nd century BC, in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013. Located at the intersection between the two main streets of the original urban center, the Forum was the city's main square, surrounded on all sides by religious, political, and business buildings.<br />
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In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4627.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013:   A view of the forum, the city's main square, dating the 2nd century BC, is seen here in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013. Located at the intersection between the two main streets of the original urban center, the Forum was the city's main square, surrounded on all sides by religious, political, and business buildings.<br />
<br />
In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4625.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013: Tourists enter the Pompeii archeological site from Porta Marina, the most imposing of the seven gates of the city,  in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013. Porta Marina takes its name from rhe fact that its road led to the sea.<br />
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In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4536.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013: Ruins of columns can be seen here in the Regio VII, Insula 6 (an insula is the equivalent of a modern city block), in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013.<br />
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In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. <br />
<br />
Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.<br />
<br />
Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.<br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4471.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013: A plastic fence forbids the access to columns in the Regio VII, Insula 6 (an insula is the equivalent of a modern city block), in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013...In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. ..Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre...Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4460.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013: Mattia Buondonno, 50, guide of the Superintendence of Pompeii, walks in the peristyle of the Stabian Baths, the city's most ancient bath building (2nd century BC),  in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013...In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. ..Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre...Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4316.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013: Mattia Buondonno, 50, guide of the Superintendence of Pompeii, observes one of the rooms of the Stabian Baths, the city's most ancient bath building (2nd century BC),  in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013...In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. ..Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre...Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4310.jpg
  • POMPEII, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2013: Mattia Buondonno, 50, guide of the Superintendence of Pompeii, observes one of the rooms of the Stabian Baths, the city's most ancient bath building (2nd century BC),  in Pompeii, Italy, on April 4th, 2013...In recent years, a series of collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that the ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements ? and poorly served by the red tape, lack of strategic planning and limited personnel of the site's historically troubled management. ..Pompeii, along with Herculaneum, was buried under 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. After its initial discovery in 1599, Pompeii was rediscovered as the result of intentional excavations in 1748 by the Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre...Pompeii is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130404_NYT_Pompei__MG_4299.jpg
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