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How A ‘Refugee Town’ Fell Victim To Italy’s Populist Politics

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Post date January 4, 2020

Manifestation of solidarity to the mayor of Riace Mimmo Lucano on May 11, 2018 Antonio Melita/Pacific Press via ZUMA

Fourteen months ago the progressive mayor of Riace, in Calabria, was arrested. Soon after, many of the refugees he’d help settle pulled up stakes and left.

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In Italian Forests, Where The “Bread Of The Poor” Grows

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Post date September 23, 2014

At the chestnut museum in Colognora Museo del Castagno

LAURINO — On the way to the mill, I stopped in Stazzema, in the heart of the Apuan Alps, where it was raining. I followed the step-by-step directions that Silvia gave me. She knows the trail well, as she and her partner Alex decided to move to the mill five years ago. This is “Friar’s […]

Tags bread, chestnuts, delicacy, flour, italy, lucca, mill, pruno, tradition, tuscany

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