Place to see: Appenine Mountains, Borgo Val di Taro, Italy

Italian morning

Italian morning

Somewhere between Milan and, let's say, Salerno is a vast world of mountains and mists in which we have managed to leave a mere tracery of our passing, roads and railways that hug the deeper valleys, small towns that venture short ways up the slopes. The rest is as ancient as ...

About this place:

The Appenine Mountains form the "backbone" of Italy, curving from north of Genoa above the Italian Riviera through Tuscany, Umbria, the province of Rome, and south right to the "boot" of Italy in Calabria and across to Sicily. It is a landscape that, though less prominent in the Italy of the imagination than the countries ancient and vibrant cities and its fertile valleys, dominates the Italy seen from the air.

Borgo Val di Taro, Regione Emilia-Romagna, IT

Discovered by Stephanie Fysh
on 3 March 2008.
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