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Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

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Re: Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

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arethuza wrote: post #47
contingencies wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the recommendation. What else would you highlight in Puglia for food/nature/history?

The whole region is awesome for food and wine - we did a walk (over few days) from Santa Maria di Leuca to Otranto - sometimes along the coast and sometimes in paths through the lovely countryside. We started and ended that trip in Lecce - staying in a few agriturismos along the way, all of which had sublime food. We've also been to Bari as well - which has a lovely old town as does Otranto - where the town centre is…

I was really looking for some points of interest rather than a tale of walking and sitting, but thanks anyway.

Re: Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

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contingencies wrote: post #51
arethuza wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole region is awesome for food and wine - we did a walk (over few days) from Santa Maria di Leuca to Otranto - sometimes along the coast and sometimes in paths through the lovely countryside. We started and ended that trip in Lecce - staying in a few agriturismos along the way, all of which had sublime food. We've also been to Bari as well - which has a lovely old town as does Otranto - where the town centre is…

I was really looking for some points of interest rather than a tale of walking and sitting, but thanks anyway.

I live in Bologna and went to Puglia at the end of last year for the first time, loved it!, here are some highlights off the top of my head:

- We stayed a few nights in an _Agroturismo_ near Cisternino that makes olive oil, our room was actually a _Trullo_ [1], a type of building typical of the area. There are many such places.

- If you want to see lots of Trulli in a picturesque town, Alberobello is beautiful but quite touristy. Still worth the visit imo.

- In Cisternino, they have these amazing restaurants (that is, if you eat meat) that are basically butcher shops where you choose the meat you want and they grill it for you. One of the specialties are "bombettes". The town itself is pretty.

- In Martina Franca, you have to try (again meat) "Capocollo di Martina Franca", which is like the Parma ham of the region. You can probably find it throughout Puglia, but the town is nice.

- Ostuni is a very beautiful white washed town.

- Lecce is well worth the visit, I can't really remember all the restaurants we visited, just one for seafood "Il Vico Del Gusto", we liked it a lot.

- Coming from Lecce but you can probably find them in other places in Puglia are the pastries "pasticciotto", which is a shortcrust pastry filled with custard cream, (sometimes they add other ingredients). Yum.

- Another typical dish of the region is the pasta "orecchiette con le cime di rapa", which is this ear-shaped little pasta with broccoli rabe, garlic, chili flakes, olive oil, and sometimes anchovies. Simple but very nice.

Hope that helps/convinces you to go!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trullo

Re: Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

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Post by contingencies »

tinkertrain wrote: post #52
contingencies wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was really looking for some points of interest rather than a tale of walking and sitting, but thanks anyway.

I live in Bologna and went to Puglia at the end of last year for the first time, loved it!, here are some highlights off the top of my head: - We stayed a few nights in an _Agroturismo_ near Cisternino that makes olive oil, our room was actually a _Trullo_ [1], a type of building typical of the area. There are many such places. - If you want to see lots of Trulli in a picturesque town, Alberobello is beautiful but qu…

Awesome cheers :)

Re: Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

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Post by damnitbuilds »

bluebarbet wrote: post #44
damnitbuilds wrote: post #8

"Twenty centuries are stacked in 4 meters (13 feet) of earth — or about the height of two-and-a-half Napoleon Bonapartes standing on top of one another." Way to get history wrong in your story about history.

The quip suggests he was 1.6 m tall. The best guess is in fact 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in), so it's not that far off.

The author picked Napoleon because of the belief that he was shorter than average and included a sum showing that they think he was shorter than average.

Napoleon was not shorter than average.

-> Bad History.

Re: Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

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Post by bluebarbet »

damnitbuilds wrote: post #54
bluebarbet wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The quip suggests he was 1.6 m tall. The best guess is in fact 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in), so it's not that far off.

The author picked Napoleon because of the belief that he was shorter than average and included a sum showing that they think he was shorter than average. Napoleon was not shorter than average. -> Bad History.

Indeed. Obviously the author was not au fait with the latest Napoleonic height historiography, because Napoleon's non-shortness is at this point almost a meme. Either way it's not very important.
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