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Hazelnuts, not just work ....

Round and gentle .... the Piedmont Hazelnut flavor is a delicious fruit that grows in the hills of the Langhe hazelnut this is qualitatively superior to all others and is a jewel of the Piedmont tradition, known and appreciated throughout the world.

(More informations: http://www.nocciolapiemonte.it/ ).

The core, in reality Langa, has strong deep roots and the result is entered in the customs of the people of this territory, allowing the expression of the kitchen, influencing eating habits, even becoming an element of celebration, folklore and popular events.

The crux came to the point to be part of local culture to be enveloped in an aura of magic: the peasants believed that her bush was inhabited by fairies and elves (but of discourse "mask "we'll talk another time).

The guests are as attracted to the nuts we put out to dry in the barn: normal adults have never seen so many nuts all together and some people are hesitant to walk inside for fear of breaking them, while others asked if can help and, once they have a shovel in hand, they see the pile of nuts as a "challenge". Most children, however, will quickly become familiar with the "round and gentle" and immediately recognize the moment "fun" a lot fun (although, sometimes, to us to pick them up again ...).

Try it .....

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Sacra di San Michele

The monument symbolising Piedmont region

We visited the Sacra di San Michele few days ago, together with some friends from Varese; it has been a great experience! You can see the Shire from a distance, infact it rises on the top of a mountain, so you start enjoying the visit in advance... and when you reach the entrance the excitement is in the highest degree!!

The Shrine of Saint Michael was born between 983 and 987 to meet with the demands and the culture of pilgrimage: it's one of the largest European religious Romanesque architectural complexes, the result of construction and enlargements made over a millennium. The three chapels, built in the rocks under the present basilica, show the dawn of the settlement; it's from them that the ancient monastery developed (XI c.).

The present three aisles basilica dates to the XII century. It lays on the primitive cells and on the basement built around the Grand Stairway of the Dead. The church's western spans and the buildings in the north of the complex date back to the Gothic period. The XII century was the period of its greatest splendour, it gave hospitality to pilgrims and aristocrats and was a fulcrum of a patrimony that spread all over Europe.

Entrance is the most superb portion of the Abbey. The façade (just a little over 135 feet) is decorated by a combination of colours and geometry, the straight lines of the iron-grey foundation and the greenish full curves of the church. The façade ends in the apse and in the gallery made by arches (the "viretti") which is one of the most beautiful Romanesque apsidal loggia in Italy.

From the entrance, the church is reached through a large and steep stairway. After the first few steps, on the left there is a pilaster over 18 meters high (about 60 feet) which supports the church's floor; to the right the large greenish rock invades the front wall; some arches may be noticed, as well as tombs and wide niches which, until the recent restoration, containned the skeletons of some monks, hence the name of the Stairway of the Dead. The silence of the centuries dominates everything.
The door of the zodiac stands on the top of the steep Stairway of the Dead. Beautiful work by Maestro Nicolao, a famous sculptor during the twelfth century. It's made of pieces of marble.

Going upwards, the jamb to the right shows the signs of the zodiac, while the jamb to the left, other constellations; there are slender and elegant columns, with capitals telling biblical stories (Cain and Abel, Samson and Delilah) or symbolic stories (women tearing each other's hair; women nourishing snakes, lions with a dragon's head and tail).

After a large terrace, is the artistic Romanesque doorway of grey and green stones: there are arches, cornes and string-cournes supported by semi-columns ending with flowery capitals. On the top, the dripstone ended with the head of a hooded monk and the head of a young man (now lost). on both sides, right and left, are the columns with three foiled arches, all that remains of the porch that used to protect the door. The door panels, dated 1826, are decorated with the arms of the Archangel St. Michael and with the devil represented as a snake with a human face.

For information contact the Rosminian Fathers: phone 0039011939130; fax 0039011939706

web site: http://www.sacradisanmichele.com/

I Broke The Wireless Receiver For The Mouse

Snow in mid-March

Normalmente, al 10 di marzo, ci si alza al mattino e si ha already planned a series of works that can be done in the country: among all these, get a shovel about a meter of snow is not usual, at least not here in Langa ... Beppe remember something like that is over 20, but not so much space!

course, with the snow, lunch arrives a dish of polenta, which is eaten at home in many ways: some prefer it with milk, some with cheese or sausage and who, like me, in the end it has to eat a bit with the jam.

Snake And Angel Bites

Set-parloma you there and some

Checkout better than to sit with friends - perhaps with a glass of wine and a slice of salami - to talk without haste and freewheel?
's so that I feel when I go to my friend with me Boettger, aka Barbafiore, author of Piedmontese dialect poetry (including the collection entitled, precisely, Set-parloma you there a bit'): I sit on the chair, and while I am beard and hair, and no one runs behind us, we talk about everything that comes to mind ...
work, deadlines, busy schedule weekly, and the desire to force us to demonstrate a more hectic life in which we chase our time giving us a fleeting values, unaware of losing, little by little, the ability to appreciate the simplicity (and the therapeutic value!) of the moments spent together, sharing experiences and feelings, or just the pleasure of being together ... He sadly Barbafiore reason when, in his "Solitude" says

Ser Im always' d pi / with the parl nen / the other body to the shy ... / And pay to talk to the analyst.

(tr.: I close more and more, with no one speaking, the more I avoid it ... and I pay to talk to the psychoanalyst.)
And 'This is what we would like to avoid! On the contrary, we wish to propose a space and opportunity to know each other a bit 'more telling of work, family, moments of celebration, plans, disappointments and achievements ...
The invitation is open to all, without exception, and the spirit is the same one that welcomed guests to stop off at our farm, Farm St. Euphemia!