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Welcome to our blog, Genzano it story
and this post, the town I have come from
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This is one of Genzano main streets, it is called the 'Corso' in this photo the 'Corso' seems deserted, but there are special times in this town, when most people all dressed up stroll up and down, it is like a parade and the walk very slowly just to see who is there and to be seen; this really happens every Sunday afternoon and also on other days.
The town I have come from
Genzano is the town I came from
Dear readers, wherever we are, people
always ask these questions, where we come from? Of course this makes us think first
of all where we come from originally, so we start thinking about creation and
something similar; we start thinking that life is the best gift that God or
Mother Nature has given us, it is always wonderful to think about our life and
trying to live it the best way we can; at the same time we are wondering
sometimes where we come from and most of us would like to know why and what is
the reason for being here on earth; some of us have their own beliefs or just
we go along with other people beliefs, but this reasoning is about where we
come from originally, whether God has created us or we are just a product of
evolution.
But here in this post we are not going to
talk about this philosophic question, we are only talking about where we come
from, meaning whether we are local people that have lived there for many
generations, or we are new to this place, this is what other people most times
want to know. So, when you are not living in your native town anymore, because
you have left your native town and gone to live somewhere else to earn a
living, then the most likely question that people would always ask would be;
where you come from?
While we try to answer their question the
best way we can we start thinking about our own fife journey and indeed about
the town that we have came from; in my case I would answer I have come from
Genzano di Lucania; so, Genzano is the town I came from. Then we may start
thinking that we might be born with our own destiny, since we see that there
were certain reasons why we left our native town, at least some of us might
believe we do have a destiny, just because we would like to believe that it is
so. You see for this reason I believe that somehow my own destiny has played a
part and has taken me away from my native town. Some people may say that since
you left your town for your own personal reasons, you would forget about your
native town altogether, and you would not say a word about it since this town
could not give you what you wanted when you were young, so you left your native
town.
Some people might think that you don’t like
your native town, but it is not like that at all, because wherever you are born
and grow up it is going to be your native town for the rest of your life. You
see every one of us is proud of its native town or country, if we were not
proud of our heritage we would be unworthy of ourselves, so, I hope that you my
dear readers understand why sometimes I would like to talk about Genzano my
native home town. After all Genzano di Lucania is really a good town that one
could be proud of to come from, so let us talk about Genzano di Lucania the
town that I come from.
Click
on the link above to see the map, another map is in our hub, Genzano di
Lucania.
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The town where I came from
Dear readers, allow me to
describe to you the town where I was born, lived when I was young and later on
I had to leave; because of the changes that were occurring at that time, it
would not be financially sound to continue to work this small family farm; so, I left our farm and migrated to
Australia. Now, I would like to talk about my native town so that you could
understand the ways that we used to live in this town, at the time when I was
young; after all we want also to compare the ways of living of those time with
today’s ways of living: we would like to do that not only to compare the
difference, but also because you may perceive and feel my life story in the
same way and depth as I have perceived and felt it, while I was living my young
life at that place and at that particular time. About my life in the farm I
have already written several hubs and some of them you can check them out at
these addresses:
My life my struggles, An old man life story , A man life journey, An old man story,
My farm life experience, and there are more.
As we were saying the town that we are
talking about here is the town where I was born and lived my youth before I
came to Australia, its name is Genzano di Lucania.
Therefore let us go back to the time when I
was young, so that I could describe to you the town and their costumes, so
that, you may be able to understand the ways that these people have lived their
lives for centuries; And therefore the reason why they were living the way they
were living at the time when I was young. Now because I was born there I was
caught in their own ways of living, which left a lot to be desired for, if one
compares it to the ways that we live our lives in Australia nowadays, and also
most of the advanced countries in the world.
The town where I came from happens to be
situated in Southern Italy; its name is ‘Genzano’ but its full name is ‘Genzano
Di Lucania’, only to distinguish it from ‘Genzano di Roma’. But when we talk
about this town, we just talk about Genzano, and this causes a curious fact of
life here in Australia, because to most people living in Australia the name of
‘Genzano’ sounds very much like ‘Cinzano’ which is a famous wine brand. So they
start asking questions whether my native town is the town where such a good
wine originated. But unfortunately ‘Genzano’ the town which I have come from
has got nothing to do with that famous wine brand. Although we had and still
have some good vineyards in the town territory, and they make good wines, and
here we have to add that also my family owned some vineyards at the time when I
was young, from which we used to make good wines too. The wine that our family
made from our vineyards was mainly for our own family use, but usually it was
more than our family could use, so we would sell the extra wine locally. I will
tell you more about this wine making in another hub, here is the link to check
it out: Wine
making the old ways
But talking about wines and wine making, it
makes me think of something very unusual and scenic in this town of Genzano,
which people from outside town and not familiar with this sort of set up would
be amazed to see. (Check our hub, Wine making the old way in the subtitle, life
and sound of the chasm) Now, if we were to say that the people of Genzano make
their wines inside cellars, which are large caves, dug in the walls of a chasm,
it would certainly leave too much to your imagination, and you may be forgiven
to imagine that there are cavemen too living in these caves, but let us see or
imagine how all this wine making in the cave came about, in this southern
region of Italy. But first let us look at the ancient towns of this region of
Italy.
Anyhow I believe that this post is already
long enough, so see you in our next post that we are going to call, old towns
of southern Italy.
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Genzano it story
The town I have come from
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, old towns of Southern Italy
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Genzano it story
The town I have come from
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, old towns of Southern Italy
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