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By CHRIS JEWERS
on a sunny summer day in Italy's southern Apulia region
gunshots broke the peace of the small town of San Marco in Lamis
Four bodies were found lying near a railway crossing and a small disused train station
Two of the men - the targets of the 'massacre of San Marco in Lamis'
as the incident is now known in Italian media - were local mafia boss Mario Luciano Romito and his nephew Matteo De Palma
They had been driving in a black VW Beetle near the station when they were ambushed by a car with four or five people inside
The other two men - Aurelio and Luigi Luciani - were local farmers
caught in the wrong place at the wrong time
having arrived at the scene shortly after the assassination in their own vehicle
There were to be no witnesses to the killing
Four bodies were found lying near a small disused train station
The targets of the 'massacre of San Marco in Lamis'
They were shot inside a black VW Beetle (pictured)
Suspicion quickly fell on the Apulian mafia, also known as Sacra Corona Unita (United Sacred Crown), or Italy's ruthless 'Fourth Mafia' - named 'fourth' after the feared trio of Sicily's Cosa Nostra (whose fame was amplified by 'The Godfather' films)
the Naples-area Camorra and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta
The killings were by no means the first in the region
which has been gripped by mob violence for several years
Victims have been shot in the face with shotguns
and farms have been burned down to intimidate locals
But the quadruple murder set alarm bells ringing about the possible emergence of a new group of criminals - an offshoot of Sacra Corona Unita - doling out violence in and around Apulia
a collection of different clans all vying for control in the southern province
has over time become to be recognised as Italy's 'fifth mafia' - also known as Societa Foggiana (or Foggian Mafia)
the city of Bari's anti-mafia prosecutor Biuseppe Volpe had written a letter to officials in the highest echelons of Italy's government
warning them of the 'long trail of blood' in Foggia
He said he felt abandoned - with criminal clans ruling the vast southeastern province with impunity
Figures reported by The Guardian show that in 2017 and 2018, Foggia saw an average of one murder per week, one robbery per day, and one extortion attempt every 48 hours - alarming rates of crime in a region home to just 150,000 people
attempts have been made to crack down on the mobs that make up the Fourth and Fifth Mafias operating in Apulia
Italian police launched a sweep against the Fourth Mafia
Italy's national anti-Mafia prosecutor - Federico Cafiero de Raho - said Foggia-based mob figures operated extortion rackets and used violence to control their 'territory' near the 'spur' of Italy's boot-shaped peninsula
De Raho warned that - unlike Italy's better-known mafias which had reduced their number of killings - the Foggia mafiosi were resorting to violence to bolster their influence
killing with impunity and without hesitation
A Carabinieri Italian police officer looks at the body of a man who was among 4 people killed by gunmen in an apparent Mafia hit
The SCU earned its name as the 'Fourth Mafia' because of its late emergence when compared to its three more notorious counterparts
some of which can trace their roots all the way back to the 19th century
those who are either working to combat or study the SCU call it a 'primitive mafia' - one that is less organised and established than the Cosa Nostra
the group was formally established in a prison in 1983 - according to a document found by investigators in the cell of its official founder
to a man named Raffaele Cutolo - also known as 'the Professor' - a Neapolitan crime boss who founded Nuova Camorra Organizzata (New Organized Camorra) which quickly became one of Italy's most powerful mafias in the second half of the 20th century
Nuova Camorra Organizzata set out to take control of swathes of Apulia
but the crime bosses in the region soon wanted independence of their own - leading to the informal birth of Sacra Corona Unita
It is understood that the group was formed to counter the power in the prisons and in Apulian territory wielded by the more established criminal mobs at the time
Rogoli came into contact with the leader of the Bellocco 'ndrina (a clan within the 'Ndrangheta)
as well as figures linked to Sicily's Cosa Nostra
whose structure is similar to that of the 'Ndrangheta (a loose confederation of organised groups
or families) - and was officially declared the supreme head of the new group
the SCU spread its influence throughout Apulia while adhering to traditions similar to that of the other three groups while exhibiting the same barbaric tendencies of the past - thus becoming known as Italy's 'fourth mafia'
The group originally preyed on Apulia's vast wine and olive oil industries
but later moved into smuggling and the trafficking of drugs
According to research published in 2012 by the Italian institute Eurispes
SCU's criminal enterprises were bringing in around 2.5 billion euros of income at the time
SCU's drug trafficking accounted for €878 million per year
prostitution accounted for €775 million per year
arms trafficking accounted for €516 million per year and extortion accounted for €351 million per year
The SCU is believed to consist of about 50 clans with approximately 2,000 core members
although other reports suggest it is more a loose association of some 10 to 15 criminal groups which are far inferior to the organisation exhibited by the 'Ndrangheta - said to be the world's largest criminal group
Mafia boss Mario Luciano Romito is believed to have been the main target in the 2017 assassination
Raffaele Cutolo - also known as 'the Professor' - a Neapolitan crime boss who founded Nuova Camorra Organizzata (New Organized Camorra) which quickly became one of Italy's most powerful mafias in the second half of the 20th century
While there is some school of thought that the SCU's power and influence peaked in the 1990s and has since been beaten back
Michele Miulli - the commander of Foggia province's carabinieri
said the group's behaviour 'is reminiscent to what was seen in Calabria in the 1980s and Sicily in the 1970s
She adds: 'The mafia here value powerful weapons; they disfigure and dismember bodies
It's not about subtle intimidation but about actions with impact.'
Camorra and the 'Ndrangheta are reported to have reduced the number of killings - coinciding with their international growth - the SCU eliminate enemies without a second thought
seeking a strategy of silence to stay unnoticed,' Foggia's head prosecutor Ludovico Vaccaro said last year
In a report issued by Italy's Anti-Mafia Directorate in 2021
the Fourth Mafia in Foggia was singled out for its 'unscrupulous use of violence and the ready availability of large quantities of weapons and explosives.'
the SCU is not thought to be as 'organised'
it does not have international financial structures
tax advisers - and has not become a 'mafia company' with a complex web of international arrangements
head of the Foggia branch of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate (DIA)
told Le Monde in 2022 that the SCU has no 'crown'
with different groups under the same umbrella
some questions have been raised over just how powerful the group actually is today
several of its leaders defected in the early 2000s
and most of its members at the time that didn't were rounded up and arrested
It is understood that the group no longer exists as a single organisation
It has been suggested that the more recent crimewave in and around Puglia actually points to the emergence of a 'fifth' Italian mafia - the Societa Foggiana - and that the various groups in Foggia are actually now separate from the SCU
This suggestion was reported in 2020 during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic when - on April 1 - a man wearing a mask - blew the doors off a care home for vulnerable people in Foggia
It was the second bomb attack on the home that year
was a man named Luca Vigilante - who along with his brother was a key witness in a trial involving a criminal organisation authorities had dubbed Italy's 'fifth mafia'
Matteo Messina Denaro - Italy's most wanted mafia boss - is seen being escorted out of a Carabinieri police station after he was arrested in Palermo
He was one of the leaders of the Sicilian mob - or Cosa Nostra
Matteo Messina Denaro is seen left after being arrested and right in his younger years
investigators said at the time they had uncovered an emerging Puglia-based crime organisation that had gone under the radar for years
A series of car bombs in January 2020 - as well as a murder
which saw a 50-year-old man shot dead in his car - led officials to confirm their suspicion about the emergence of this so-called 'Fifth Mafia' operating in Foggia
'The Foggia mafia is relatively young,' head prosecutor Ludovico Vaccaro, said at the time, according to The Guardian
'The clans that make up this organisation have been embedded in this territory for at least 30 years
We cannot compare them to the historical Italian mafia groups like Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta
but it is a mafia characterised by a high degree of aggression and violence
one that feeds cadavers to pigs so as not to leave a trace,' he added
there is some uncertainty over where the Fourth Mafia ends and the Fifth Mafia begins
with many crimes that were initially thought to be the work of the SCU later revised to be attributed to Societa foggiana
the Fifth Mafia also traces its roots back to Raffaele Cutolo
the leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata
He is understood to have met Apulian criminals in 1979
while he was waging a bloody war with leaders within the Camorra
founding an Apulian branch of Nuova Camorra Organizzata - a predecessor to Societa foggiana
Although the Fifth Mafia's founding is still mysterious
marked a turning point in the mafia war in the region - and the rise of Rocco Moretti
As gory details emerged in the wake of the murder - including that Laviano's head had been severed
with a picture of it later shown in a trial of several suspected mobsters - Moretti became the leader of Societa foggiana
2021 prior to the opening of the 'Rinascita-Scott' maxi-trial in which more than 350 alleged members of Calabria's 'Ndrangheta mafia group and their associates go on trial in Lamezia Terme
Two Italian Carabinieri stand near a poster that shows 32 people who were arrested in an operation against the feared Camorra clan
Different splinter groups from the SCU - believed to be part of Societa Foggiana - control four well-defined criminal zones in the Foggia region
each specialising in a different form of crime
The French newspaper says that in the town of Cerignola
mobsters there specialise in explosive attacks on armoured vehicles carrying cash
drug trafficking is the group's main source of income
with cannabis grown on-site to be sold on to the market
extortion experts and loan sharks have infiltrated the local economy and recruit from low-level criminals
a pilgrimage city that is visited by worshippers of Italy's most venerated saint - Padre Pio - was for a long time used as a place to store cocaine
each clan 'tries to gain influence and additional income'
Investigators have found the sawn-off shotgun to be a favourite weapon among the ranks of the Foggia mafiosos
particularly of the Gargano mafia - which operates in a region that welcomes both tourists and Albanian drug shipments from the east
is used to disfigure a victim - blowing their face off at close range in what is known as the 'ritual of death'
Bodies vanishing without a trace is also a common feature of investigations
fed to pigs or dumped in caves never to be found
a human skull was left outside of a municipal building
home to the offices of the mayor of Monte Sant'Angelo
The skinned head of a goat - with a dagger stabbed through the skull - was left the same year for a lawyer representing a suspected mafia victim's mother
Prosecutors have also been left concerned with a trend of young people being behind gangland killings
a 21-year-old was shot dead in a public park
His 17-year-old killer later turned himself in
three murders in 2022 were carried out by minors
Investigators have found the sawn-off shotgun to be a favourite weapon among the ranks of the Foggia mafiosos
Prosecutors in Foggia working to crack down on the SCU's criminal enterprise - and that of its splinter groups - are fighting an uphill battle
Le Monde reported last year there were '13,000 trials awaiting a hearing
more than 6,000 cases under investigation and 40,000 offences per year.'
Foggia court's jurisdiction covers a territory of 7,200 square kilometres
diluting the power of prosecutors and emboldening the SCU
There have been several examples of intimidation reported which the mafia is believed to have been behind
the widow of Luigi - one of the two witnesses gunned down in 2017 - told Le Monde last year that she received death threats in the wake of her husband's death
She was too afraid to identify who sent them
24 acres of tomato fields she inherited from her husband were set on fire in the middle of the night
'This land was left to the mercy of criminals for 40 years,' she told Le Monde
But my husband's death was useful in that it brought to light an unbearable situation
we went from talking about delinquents killing each other to [discussing] a new mafia,' she said of how the situation has developed in recent years
told the French newspaper he was visited by a mafia chief who wanted to collect an annual 'sovereignty tax' of €150,000
so he was beaten and threatened with a gun to the head
made him a 'dead man walking' who banks and insurers are now too afraid to do business with
He said he'd be able to 'buy it back' from the mafia
One of his sheds full of goods was also burned down
People take part in a demonstration against the mafia in the city of Foggia
Authorities have taken some steps to combat the mafias in Apulia
One of Foggia magistrates' key objectives is to convince criminals to collaborate and turn on their former partners - a tactic that has historically yielded results in crackdowns against the likes of the Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta clans
the violence being meted out in the region has been declared a national emergency
leading to the creation of a special operations group in Foggia tasked with hunting down the hideouts frequented by criminal clans
With the groups said to be using Apulia's canyons
caves and abandoned quarries to hide weapons
the landscape is being scoured by the special carabinieri unit
the unit made 63 arrests and searched more than 1,500 houses
shelters and bunkers suspected of being used by the Fourth Mafia
'There are no quiet arrests here,' one of the officers told Le Monde last year
'They are waiting for us with weapons in hand
a guy was behind the door with a Molotov cocktail.'
The officers have detailed arrests made after dramatic rooftop chases
with one fugitive reported to have jumped out of a window only to be found crouching on the edge of a nearby cliff with nowhere else to run
The difficulty of capturing and holding powerful crime bosses desperate to avoid justice was demonstrated earlier last year when a Fourth Mafia chief was able to escape a maximum security prison in Sardinia
had been serving a 24-year prison sentence for membership of a criminal organisation
who had been described as 'dangerous' on Europol's list of Europe's most wanted criminals
was jailed for being the boss of the rural Gargano clan operating within a young and little-known organised crime syndicate in Foggia
was captured on the French island of Corsica on Friday
Raduano - described as 'dangerous' on Europol's list of Europe's most wanted criminals - was seen on CCTV footage escaping a prison in Sardinia
He was jailed for being the boss of the rural Gargano clan operating within a young and little-known organised crime syndicate in Foggia
This handout photograph released by the Italian Carabinieri press office on February 2
2024 shows the arrest of Italian mafia boss Marco Raduano
He was able to escape Nuoro prison by using bedsheets to scale down the side of the building in February 2023
CCTV footage showed him abseiling down the perimeter walls using the sheets - which had been tied together
Raduano was eventually caught up with on the French island of Corsica, and was re-arrested in February this year.
the footage suggested he had help from the outside - making it a hugely embarrassing incident for Italian authorities which underscored the power of the Fourth Mafia: Not even the Cosa Nostra
Camorra or the 'Ndrangheta have been able to orchestrate and escape from a maximum security prison
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Mass Propers for Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter:
says the Lord; whoever comes to me will never hunger
Preface II of Easter: It is truly right and just
but in this time above all to laud you yet more gloriously
when Christ our Passover has been sacrificed
Through him the children of light rise to eternal life and the halls of the heavenly Kingdom are thrown open to the faithful; for his Death is our ransom from death
and in his rising the life of all has risen
every people exults in your praise and even the heavenly Powers
sing together the unending hymn of your glory
we believe that we shall also live with Christ
Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter: O God
who open wide the gates of the heavenly Kingdom to those reborn of water and the Holy Spirit
pour out on your servants an increase of the grace you have bestowed
they may lack nothing that in your kindness you have promised
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit
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After taking part in the Crusades against the Albigensians
he used his inheritance to free Christian prisoners held by the Moors
He later founded the Order of Our Lady of Mercy (Mercedarians) beginning in 1218 devoted to ransoming Christians
John the Apostle was taken to Rome under the Emperor Domitian and plunged into a cauldron of boiling oil; by a striking miracle he came out safe and sound from this torture
This disposition to forgive did not die with St
but has continued to be one of the most characteristic virtues of the saint
Benedict as related in the Dialogues of St
that he was continuously and severely persecuted by a delinquent priest who lived in the neighborhood of the monastery
in order to protect the virtue and the vocations of his disciples
Benedict decided to abandon the site of his monastery and move to another location
He and his monks had hardly left their monastery when word was brought that the persecutor had died suddenly
Contrary to the expectation of the messenger who brought the news
Benedict broke out in loud lamentations that his enemy had died suddenly and had not had an opportunity to repent
The saints see so much more clearly than we the relative unimportance of the hardships and injustices we suffer in this world
and the importance before all else of the sinner's being converted and repenting of his sins
How long and how persistently we harbor grudges in our hearts against those who have offended us
How difficult we find it to forgive freely and from our hearts
Yet we proclaim ourselves to be Christians and to practice all the Christian virtues
Do we forget that our Lord told us that if we expect our prayers to be heard
and our sacrifices to be pleasing in the sight of God
and go first and make peace with our brother
Nor is the disposition to forgive our enemies peculiar only to the saints and martyrs of the ancient Church; nor should we expect it to be
and if His disciples were commanded to forgive their enemies in His day
Father Pro was executed in Mexico some years ago
he was asked by his executioner if he had anything he wished to do
or anything he wished to say before the sentence was executed
Father Pro said that there was; he wished to be given an opportunity to pray for his executioners and to give them his blessing before he died
During the persecutions in Spain during the late civil war
one of the religious who was to be put to death by the communists was led to his death with his hands bound
asked to be allowed to give his blessing to the members of the firing squad
It is said that the officer in charge of the guard untied his hands
and then swiftly struck off the hands of the priest with his sword
raised his right arm and traced the sign of the cross over the heads of his murderers
This is the true sign of the authentic martyr
the characteristic mark of the true saint of the Church
Who His own self bore our sins in His body upon the tree" (Epistle)
The redemption of man as accomplished by Christ might have been accomplished in other ways
but none of them would have been as perfect as the way Christ chose
God might have forgiven man outright without requiring any satisfaction for sin
This would have been a splendid manifestation of the infinite mercy of God
but it would have ignored His infinite justice
God might have refused redemption and forgiveness altogether
and this would have been in complete conformity with His justice
but it would not have satisfied His infinite mercy
Perfect redemption required that both God's mercy and justice be satisfied
Any act of satisfaction on his part would only have been of limited and finite value
An act of reparation offered by a divine person would have been adequate
since it would not have been offered by the offending party
The only possibility of a perfect redemption was for the divine person to become incarnate
could perform acts of infinite value; since he was a human being
He could act in the name of the human race
and offer an act of reparation which would be both adequate and authentic
But the martyrdom of the latter Apostle called for a scene worthy of the event
was not a sufficiently glorious land for such a combat
whither Peter had transferred his Chair and where he died on his cross
and where Paul had bowed down his venerable head beneath the sword
alone deserved the honor of seeing the beloved disciple march on to martyrdom
with that dignity and sweetness which are the characteristics of this veteran of the Apostolic College
In the year 95 John appeared before the tribunal of pagan Rome
the worship of a Jew who had been crucified under Pontius Pilate
He was considered a superstitious and rebellious old man
and it was time to rid Asia of his presence
sentenced to an ignominious and cruel death
A huge cauldron of boiling oil was prepared in front of the Latin Gate
The sentence ordered that the preacher of Christ be plunged into this bath
The hour had come for the second son of Salome to partake of his Master’s chalice
the boiling liquid lost all its heat; the Apostle felt no scalding
when they took him out again he felt all the vigor of his youthful years restored to him
four-day cattle drive from Puglia to summer meadows in Molise
a seasonal migration called a transhumance
This story appears in the May 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine.Each June
Nunzio Marcelli gathers his flock of 1,300 sheep and leaves his home near the medieval village of Anversa degli Abruzzi in the Apennine Mountains of central Italy
and a few guests curious about this region’s traditional way of life herd the animals to an alpine meadow high above the Marcelli farm
The route from the farm to the animals’ summer pasture follows a tratturo
the Italian word for the paths carved into this land by more than 2,300 years of such migrations
After clattering through Anversa’s cobblestone streets
the sheep and their herders scramble upward
They switchback through seas of wildflowers
and crumbling stone villages—including the ethereal hamlet of Castrovalva
which clings to a craggy limestone crown jutting into the sky
they crest onto a 6,561-foot-high plateau below the still snowcapped Monte Greco
Historic cowbells hang on a rail in San Marco in Lamis
before the Colantuono family and their herd depart on the transumanza
The bells help herders find stray animals and symbolize the family’s generations-long ties to this agrarian tradition
Although less than a hundred miles from Rome
Golden eagles and falcons wing through the bright blue Apennine sky
and wildflowers grow in dizzying profusion
This is the kind of place you’d never want to leave
But Marcelli has work to do back on the farm
after a celebratory lunch consisting of traditional Abruzzese fare such as lamb stew or pancotto
The Colantuono family’s twice-yearly journey with their livestock to and from summer and winter pastures is part of a tradition practiced by pastoral communities around the world and recently recognized by UNESCO for its cultural significance.Everyone
but the sheep that will remain here—on public land Marcelli leases from the district of Scanno near the border of the National Park of Abruzzo
Lazio and Molise—through summer and early fall
to watch over and protect the flock from wolves
and sometimes a few of the agriturismo’s guests willing to brave the late autumn cold
reverse the journey to bring the livestock home
In Monte Sant’Angelo a crowd gathers to watch a procession during the feast day of St
The Pugliese town lies along the network of tratturi
the trails long used in Italy for the transhumance
This wholly utilitarian and pragmatic task driven by necessity is now inscribed on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, along with Byzantine chant, the reggae music of Jamaica, and Argentine tango. When representatives from Italy, Greece, and Austria submitted a bid in March 2018, requesting that transhumance be added to the UNESCO list, they cited it as “more than just a profession for its practitioners, but a way of life.”
Transhumance takes place between upper and lower altitudes—and between upper and lower latitudes—and involves all manner of livestock. On the Tigray Highlands of Ethiopia, herders move cattle, sheep, and goats. In Bhutan and Nepal, the practice includes yaks, water buffalo, and cattle. Pig transhumance has been a feature of Bosnian pastoral life.
Some ranchers in the American West still practice transhumance. One livestock corridor, the Green River Drift in Wyoming, has been used for more than a century and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Each spring, cowboys trail herds of cattle along the “drift” from desert grazing allotments in western Wyoming to summer pasture high in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The nearly 60-mile journey takes three weeks to complete.
On May 1, the Abruzzese town of Cocullo hosts the Festa dei Serpari. Women in local garb carry bread-filled baskets while serpari, or snake handlers, prepare to drape the statue of patron saint Domenico di Sora in serpentine coils. The popular event grew out of the transhumance and the snakes on its paths.
In southern Greece, where my family and I have lived off and on since the mid-1970s, the twice-yearly flow of people and their animals was so ingrained in the way of life that, until the late 1990s, it carried a priest and a schoolteacher with it.
Dimitris told us about the blue mold that forms between the cheese and the skin, which he kneads into the cheese. Yianoula scooped out a chunk and placed it on a communal plate. Hunks of wood-toasted bread in hand, we dug in. The cheese was deliciously pungent and peppery—it was the touloumotiri of my childhood, the touloumotiri of transhumance.
About 75 miles southeast of the Marcelli family farm, fourth-generation cheesemaker and dairy farmer Carmelina Colantuono also practices transhumance, but on horseback, herding her family’s 300 mostly Podolica cows more than 100 miles to and from winter pasture. Colantuono’s award-winning caciocavallo cheese, fragrant with the wild grasses and herbs of Puglia and Molise, is served in restaurants from Rome to Manhattan.
A study of the “traditional ecological knowledge” of transhumant shepherds in Spain posits that such knowledge—of flora, fauna, and natural phenomena resulting from a culture having direct contact with an environment for generations—helps those people adapt to environmental change and be effective stewards of the land.
When he was a child, Marcelli says, he was told, “If you don’t study, you’ll have to graze the sheep.” He embraced that notion. While he did study—economics and commerce at the Sapienza University of Rome—he wrote his dissertation on using sustainable methods of sheep breeding to stimulate rural Abruzzo’s economy.
“In the past there were millions of sheep in Abruzzo,” she says. “Now there are maybe 200,000. We raise sheep because we hope to inspire others to do the same. We make the transumanza because it is good for the health of the animals and it is good for this place. It is part of this mountain culture, and we don’t want this culture to die.”
to shifting demographics and evolving land-use policies and patterns
Others now intersect highways or rail lines
Young people leave the villages or have little interest in continuing their families’ traditional livelihoods
Although the Italian tratturi are public property
Colantuono must apply for permits to cross highways and pass through villages and towns before leading her family’s cattle to and from Puglia each year
For Marcelli the challenges include not only livestock predators but also politicians whose policymaking
On the third day of the Colantuonos’ transhumance
herders dry off at a camp in Ripalimosani after a storm
Their trek follows one of five remaining migratory routes in the region.Viola Marcelli is grateful for the UNESCO ruling
“It’s a hard job being a farmer,” she says
But overcoming the challenges is worthwhile
these have been a part of Abruzzo and Italy for thousands of years
What to know Today transhumance is as much a movement as an agricultural practice. Organizations such as Le Vie dei Tratturi advocate for shepherds’ rights and corridor protection, and provide information to travelers on events, museums, and exhibits with, in some cases, maps of trails and herding roads.
Guided hikes, mountain bike tours, and expeditions on horseback delve into the practice and history of transhumance. Most guided tours operate during the spring and fall, with guests helping shepherd the livestock. Not all transhumance pathways are open to the public; it’s important to check before exploring.
Festivals Whether celebrating the safe return of the herd or advocating for shepherds’ rights, transhumance festivals take place around the world. They often include traditional folk music, feasting, costumes, and dance—in addition to livestock parading by the hundreds, sometimes thousands, through the streets.
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Women in local garb carry bread-filled baskets while serpari
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the Camorra in Naples and the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria
new violent criminal clans are intimidating the city of Foggie and its surroundings
Their eradication has become a 'national emergency' for the authorities
at a crime scene in a technicolor Wild West landscape: There were azure blue skies
a disturbing atmosphere permeated this corner of countryside
like the moments that precede the fury of gunfire in Western movies
2017 – a sunny Wednesday – and four bodies were found lying on the edge of the railroad tracks swallowed by the tall grass
are honored by a stele with a discreet flower: Aurelio and Luigi Luciani
Mario Luciano Romito was the "boss." Matteo De Palma was his nephew
Was the "massacre of San Marco in Lamis," as the media called it
had sent an unusual letter to the highest officials of the Italian government
The magistrate confided that he felt abandoned; he warned of the "long trail of blood" that threatened to cover the northern part of the Puglia region if the clans continued to rule with impunity
Hooded killers executed the boss and his nephew near the small train station
when the two Luciani brothers' white Fiat van approached as they went to work
The two farmers were executed in the same location by the hitmen
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Italy and his mother was from Hannawa Falls
He also attended Clarkson University where he was a member of the ROTC and was part of the New York National Guard for 9 years
He was also owner and operator of Panunzio’s Gun Shop for over 40 years
traveling to Italy to visit family and spending time with family and friends
Constance; three sons and two daughters-in-law
A Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 am Saturday
Condolences may be made online at www.frederickbrosfuneralhome.com
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In a historic decision, Pope Francis has appointed three women—two Italians and one Belgian—as consultants to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as part of his ongoing effort to give a greater role to women in the work of the Roman Curia offices
the central administration of the Catholic church
that Francis has named three women and two priests as consultants to the C.D.F
undersecretary for “the section for the lay faithful” in the Dicastery for Laity
who teaches theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome; and Prof
who teaches theology at the Collège des Bernardins
who teaches theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University
a Claretian and president of the Institute of Both Jurisdictions (civil and canon law) at the Lateran University in Rome
All Vatican congregations and pontifical councils have consultants who are appointed by the pope
The role of a consultant in the Roman Curia is to give advice or opinions on questions that need to be resolved or to be studied
meant to give breadth and focus to a given question
Consultants have long played an important role in the C.D.F.; for example
they have often been called on to give their opinion on a book or an article written by theologians that may have raised questions of doctrine
RELATED STORIES Pope Francis appoints two laywomen to key positions in Roman CuriaGerard O’Connell
“Consultants are invaluable,” a senior Vatican official told America
Until Pope Francis departed from the tradition
consultants of the Vatican congregations have been men
Pope Francis appointed two women to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments: Prof
Donna Orsuto (U.S.) who teaches at the Gregorian University and is also director of the Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas in Rome
who teaches in the Pontifical Theological Faculty of St
In what L’Osservatore Romano called "a historic decision," this morning’s appointments mark the first time ever that women or laity have been appointed as consultants to the C.D.F.
the oldest and most powerful of the nine Vatican congregations
Originally erected in 1542 by Pope Paul III to deal with cases of heresy and schism
its competence was redefined by John Paul II in 1998 “to promote and defend the doctrine of the faith and its traditions in all of the Catholic world.”
This morning’s appointments mark the first time ever that women or laity have been appointed as consultants to the C.D.F.
Pope Francis had already appointed Dr. Linda Ghisoni
as undersecretary for the office for the laity of Dicastery for Laity
Born in Piacenza in northern Italy in 1965
she graduated with degrees in philosophy and theology from Eberhard Karls University in Tubingen
She gained a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1990
she has served in a wide range of roles both at the Vicariate of Rome and at the Tribunal of the Roman Rota
and before being appointed to the Vatican dicastery she was professor of canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University
obtained a degree in foreign literature at Rome’s La Sapienza University
and earned a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University
where she teaches fundamental theology and subjects related to anthropology and Oriental Christianity
A nurse who specialized in palliative medicine
she also gained degrees in theology at the Institut d’Etudes Théologiques in Brussels and a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Rome
She has taught theology at the Colleges des Bernardins
and is a consecrated virgin of the Archdiocese of Paris
but they are nonetheless further noteworthy steps in ongoing efforts to make it possible for women’s voices to be heard in Vatican offices where decisions are made
Gerard O’Connell is America’s Vatican correspondent
Could the editors give us more details of the education
faith and history of these women so we can be assured they are representative of the faithful women of the fellowship of all believers
We don't do that for most prelates right now
how would a group of men know how to evaluate a group of women anyway
How much worse could it get than some of the pompous twits we see claiming wisdom now
Phillip--One of them is a consecrated virgin
I have a feeling that is a special category beyond my understanding
The advice they give can be completely disregarded by the CDF leaders
Either make women cardinals and give them the same voting power as men or it is all just still another role that is "lesser by far than men" and containing no real weight
Women are done with being treated less in any way
We demand priesthood and same exact sacraments as men be restored to us immediately as a matter of human justice
Walk the Walk or don't bother doing the talk
We are done watching leaders pat themselves on the back for more continued sexism
but Francis can only do so much by himself and he cannot say what you can
No one wants prophet for a pope--at least not if they know anything about servant leadership
If you are speaking what God has told you to speak
Suggestion: I could be wrong but I am suspicious of self-proclaimed prophets
Just speak and if others start calling you prophetic
Now appoint four or five every six months and ask them to answer questions that male clergy have failed to illuminate
DominicI recollect you are frequently self avatared as " Dominic The Physician "....I suggest you talk with him about reducing your dosage.😇😇
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nestled among the lush vegetation typical of the Gargano
and according to tradition has been the scene of several apparitions of the saint
The shrine is arranged on several levels with a Romanesque-style facade and the unmistakable bell tower
what makes the visit special is the large underground cave accessed by a staircase carved into the rock and containing numerous masterpieces
There is no better place to understand the wealth of Gargano history and traditions than the Monte Sant’Angelo Civic Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions
This large exhibition space is dedicated to the memory of local scholar Giovanni Tancredi and is housed in the 14th-century convent of San Francesco
Walking through the three levels of the museum
the traveler will have the opportunity to touch some of the typical elements of this territory and understand how it has been shaped by man over the centuries thanks to the numerous artifacts that tell of agricultural and pastoral civilization
but also testify to the habits of ancient pilgrims or trades that have been lost
At the northernmost point of the Gargano lies one of its brightest jewels
Peschici is a seaside village perched on a rocky outcrop whose typical white houses overlook the Adriatic Sea
Its historic center rises within the perimeter of the ancient medieval walls
and is dominated by its ancient castle built by the Normans between the 10th and 11th centuries overlooking the sea
Strolling through narrow alleys and small squares surrounded by the typical white houses on whose walls stand out many small details painted in pastel colors
one comes across many noteworthy monuments that hold ancient treasures including the Abbey of Calena
the Church of Purgatory and the Church of St
Siponto is the initial nucleus of present-day Manfredonia
but it was above all an important seaport and one of the most active Roman colonies in the entire region even though its history goes back much further
Today a large archaeological area can be visited here that testifies to the importance Siponto achieved over the centuries before
the swamping of the harbor and two violent earthquakes drove the inhabitants to move to the new town
the vestiges of this great past are still clearly visible and are represented by the cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore
It is to a square building completely rearranged in the 13th century and one of the greatest examples of Romanesque in Apulia
At its side are the remains of an early Christian basilica with three naves and a mosaic floor
since 2016 has been the work Where Art Reconstructs Time
an installation by Edoardo Tresoldi that reconstructs the ancient early Christian temple
It is an oasis of peace and tranquility where it is possible to discover the area at a slow pace
following the many itineraries that allow you to admire up close the many wonders hidden among the valleys and slopes
among ancient farms and fairy-tale villages
the cathedral of Vieste is located at the highest part of the ancient medieval town and is certainly one of its best-known symbols
Considered one of the most shining examples of the Apulian Romanesque style
its construction dates back to the second half of the 11th century although it has since undergone numerous modifications as evidenced by the splendid bell tower rebuilt in a purely Baroque style in the late 1700s
There are many things to see inside including the statue of the Madonna of Santa Maria di Merino
a beautiful wooden sculpture from the 1300s that
was found by some sailors on the beach at Vieste
Vieste’s Swabian castle almost seems to rise straight out of the sea with its massive bulk overhanging the cliff
Like an authentic arrowhead this ancient structure has been an impregnable stronghold of the territory’s defense for centuries
Still today the castle is owned by the navy and for this reason it is opened to the public only on rare occasions
it nevertheless represents one of the most scenic places both from which to admire the panorama of the coast and to photograph from afar
Particularly striking is how the castle dominates Vieste’s main beach
there is also the Pizzomunno a solitary monolith considered the symbol of the town
These are some of the ingredients that make a visit to the small village of Mattinata
Here you are sure to find some of the most scenic views of the entire Gargano
such as those offered by the bay of Mergoli
off the coast of which striking stacks emerge from the turquoise waters
or the bay of the Zagare with its pristine sand framed by pine and lemon trees
the town of Mattinata itself that probably deserves the most attention for how it has managed to keep itself intact and tied to the traditions of the land
The Junno district is the most characteristic place thanks to the presence of the pajare
typical buildings with very white facades and built side by side leaving no space between them
The largest coastal lake in Italy and the seventh largest in the whole boot
it is about 10 kilometers long and spreads for 7 within the Gargano promontory while it is divided from the sea only by a very thin strip of land
Lake Varano has been central to the life of this entire part of the region and still represents a very important natural oasis
coots and snipes are just a few of the many species of birds that populate this wonderful place not to mention the very rich vegetation that surrounds it
Surrounded by hornbeams and ash trees, the sanctuary of St. Matthew
is located a few kilometers from San Marco in Lamis and is one of the most important buildings of worship in the Gargano
With a massive shape that almost recalls that of a medieval fortress
it still retains evident traces of the passage of pilgrims who for centuries found refreshment and shelter here along the road that led them to the cave of the Archangel Michael at Monte Sant’Angelo
is the center of a fervent cultural life thanks to the opening of a large library and museum that tell its story and with it that of the entire territory
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Antonetta Napolitano
February 6,1942-July 9
Passed peacefully on July 9 ,2021. Devoted wife of the late Michele Napolitano and loving Mother of Tony (Kathleen) Antonio,Olivia,Rachel,Marie,Kathleen,Antoinette,Gemma,Joseph,Lucia,Matteo.Lucy (Napolitano) Marwick (Dan) Daniel
Foggia Italy and came to Canada in 1959 and married Michele Napolitano
She raised 4 children who will be forever grateful for the sacrifices she made
She had an unbelievable passion for cooking and baking and was able to prepare a 5 course meal within hours
Over time Dad had to keep extending the small table downstairs to accommodate the ever-growing family and what became known as "Sunday 1 o'clock " tradition
She always made more food than expected just in case extras showed up and that invitation was extended to everyone
She was extremely hardworking and provided us with a great example of that
She had a love for her garden and it wasn't unusual to find her late at night picking fresh vegetables for her Sunday sauce which was the most amazing thing one could ever taste the expression holds true for that " often imitated but never duplicated "
She will be missed sadly by all and we pray that she may enjoy the peace and glory of everlasting life in Heaven
We would like to thank the St.Catharines General Hospital especially the Doctors and all the staff on the 5th
Al-Baldawi for her kind care and guidance and to each and every Staff member at Extendicare Pelham road for their unwavering support through this unprecedented and difficult time and yes our wish was fulfilled to make it as comfortable as you can for her
The family will receive visitors at the GEORGE DARTE FUNERAL HOME,585 Carlton Street
anyone wishing to attend the visitation must call the funeral home for an appointment to attend
A Funeral Service will take place on Tuesday
Anyone wishing to attend must call the funeral home to book your attendance
Entombment to follow at Victoria Lawn Cemetery
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Everything is ready for the awaited start of the World Masters Orienteering Championships (WMCO)
the over 35 orienteering World Championships presented this morning in the Sala Di Jeso of the Palazzo of the Presididenza of the Puglia Region in Bari
where from 8 to 16 July will compete in the evocative landscapes of the Gargano
organized by the International Orienteering Federation
FISO – Italian Federation of Sport Orientation and WMOC Organizing Committee in collaboration with Sport and Health
was able to count on a strong synergy at both national and territorial level thanks to the important patronage of the Ministry of Tourism and the Province of Foggia
as well as the teamwork of 14 Municipalities (Vieste
The WMOCs will involve over 3 thousand athletes from 40 countries with an expected daily presence in the Gargano of 5 thousand people
also considering their families and friends
this means a raw total of 50 thousand presences in the ten days of stay
Considering an average investment per person of 100 euros
the organizers expect a local induced activity of 5 million euros
in addition to the enormous value linked to the promotion of the territory to users in central and northern Europe
as 50% of the orienteers coming from the Scandinavian countries
“Puglia is a region that invests heavily in sport – said the president of the Puglia region
It is therefore with a particular emotion that we are about to welcome and host the World Masters Orienteering Championships 2022
will be the backdrop to the world competition that will involve over three thousand athletes from all over the world
We will continue to support and encourage these sporting events which represent an important opportunity to make the beauty of our territory known to a large public
I wish the sporting competitions maximum success and I send the warm greetings and welcome of the Apulian to all the participants “
It is a real honor to share my linguistic and intercultural abilities with my homeland
This event will finally highlight the richness of the Gargano area
WMOC will also be a boost for the local economy and tourism
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biodiversity: orienteering is proposed as a sport discipline and practice fully within the ‘spirit of the time’ we are experiencing – commented the vice president of the Puglia Region and councilor for Sport per tutti
“The Puglia Region welcomes the WMOC 2022 – Gargano caravan
and their families will have the experience to be kept among the most cherished treasures
Finance and Control Section in Health and Sport
thinking of the great value of a sporting event that will live in one of the most evocative contexts on both naturalistic and cultural levels
and services so that the positivity we all need is unleashed
after two dark years and while in Europe the fear of war has even returned: with the participation of women and men from countries close to the conflict and where orienteering is very popular
we hope that a message for the peaceful and prosperous coexistence of all European peoples will spread from Puglia and the Gargano ”
“Puglia still protagonist with sporting events – underlined the Tourism Councilor of the Puglia Region
After the Italian road cycling championship
we are preparing to welcome a worldwide event in the wonderful locations and protected areas of the Gargano
Corsican Orienteering is often part of training practice in our schools and is an outdoor sport appreciated by all because it stimulates a spirit of adaptation and creativity
About 50 thousand presences are expected during the days of the competition with repercussions imported on the territories in economic terms
In the wake of an increasingly varied and sustainable tourist offer
this is an opportunity to give visibility to unique tourist destinations in our region such as the UNESCO heritage sites of Monte Sant’Angelo and the Umbra Forest and to the entire Gargano “
“When more than a year ago they came to talk to us about orienteering – said the regional manager of the Administration
Finance and Control Section in Health and Sport of the Puglia Region
Benedetto Giovanni Pacifico – none of us knew this discipline
in light of all the efforts made by the organizing committee
the WMOCs represent what we consider the true
We are happy to have contributed to its realization because these World Championships will have a great return on the territory ”
“Sports tourism is a vocation of Puglia on which we are working through events of international importance
The Orienteering World Championships on the Gargano for us – said the general manager of Pugliapromo
Luca Scandale – represents a further opportunity to make known the authentic wonder of 14 Municipalities of the Gargano which
will be involved in the path which will involve over 3000 athletes from 40 countries
athletes will experience a sporting emotion in the name of sustainability
and their stories they will become the new ‘ambassadors’ of Puglia “
“Our territory is proud to host the World Masters Orienteering Championship 2022 – stated the President of the Province of Foggia
this is an award that contributes to celebrating and honoring the environmental and landscape excellence of a province which
seems to be made especially for orienteering
we could only support with conviction a sporting initiative of extraordinary importance and prestigious international scope
An event that will allow us to enhance our immense wealth to an even greater extent
placing them in an extraordinary showcase “
“The choice to host the Orienteering World Championships – said the Mayor of Vieste
Giuseppe Nobiletti – has a strategic value in conveying the image of Vieste and its territory in the circuit of highly attractive landscape holiday resorts
Considering its sporting-environmental value
a great event such as WMOC 2022 represents the ideal event to relaunch and modernize our tourist offer on the basis of a landscape rich in natural attractions that can also be oriented towards other types of tourist flows
We also appreciate the support that the Puglia Region has ensured for the event
together with ours and that of the other Gargano municipalities
WMOC 2022 is an event that will also sound like a message of peace
and concord that starts from sport and spreads throughout society ”
THE STRONGEST ORIENTEERERS OVER 35 IN THE WORLD
and Switzerland are the nations with the highest number of holdings
The event will see the involvement in the role of tracker of the Finnish Janne Salmi
with a world gold in the relay and three world silver in the Palmares
a representation full of illustrious names from Switzerland
with his 8 career world golds accompanied by 11 silvers and 9 bronzes
under the ASCO Lugano but political in life
competing in the M60 category which boasts about 200 members
with an experience of 13 World Cups with the Swiss national team
She was first world champion and then European in the Sprint distance
winning another 2 gold medals in the relay at the World Championships
Sarah Rollins is also a favorite thanks to her 12 participations as a protagonist at the World Championships with the shirt of Great Britain
“FISO is pleased to see the WMOC 2022 assigned to Puglia – declared the president of the Italian Sports Orientation Federation
which has always been attentive to respect for the environment
will bring a peaceful invasion of competitors interested in the discovery of the territory and its excellences
I believe that the typical Apulian hospitality
and the wonderful locations will make the experience unforgettable
Swiss and also all the other nations present will know how to become ambassadors of your values in the world
I especially thank those who have lent themselves to the success of the event: institutions
“I want to underline – commented the president of the WMOC Committee
Michele Barbone – the goal achieved that we set ourselves
by identifying the Gargano and in particular the Umbra Forest as the seat of a FISO Federal Center for development and the promotion of the sport of orientation in the Center-South of Italy and in the countries bordering the Mediterranean Basin
the involvement of technicians and sports managers
as well as teachers and students of institutes and schools in the municipalities of the Gargano and the University of Motor Sciences of Foggia in special training courses was and will be even more important in the future “
“The participation of over 3 thousand athletes – added the general director of the WMOC Committee
Gabriele Viale – will result in the daily presence in the Gargano of 5 thousand people
equal to a total of 50 thousand in the ten days of average stay
If we consider an average investment per person of 100 euros
the local induced will be equal to 5 million euros
The WMOCs will be activators for the future of seasonally adjusted tourism because athletes will become ambassadors around the world
in addition to promoting the area to users in central and northern Europe
50% of orienteers coming from Scandinavian countries
there will also remain a mapping plant area for orienteering at an international level and with zero impact
full of gratitude to all the working group
who are organizing this World Cup and with whom we managed to make the Organizing Committee work in a network with all the institutions
2001 Foresta Umbra Training Credits PWT Italia – Bernt Bjornsgard
In 2001 the exploration of the woods of southern Italy
was carried out by Gabriele Viale together with the Scandinavian orienteers Jorgen Martensson and Bernt Bjonsgaard
brought to light one of the most technical undergrowth in the world for orienteering
Its development path from an oriental point of view at an international level started sixteen years ago with a series of events: the 2004 Italian Cup
and many other competitions in the historic centers of Vico del Gargano
the world candidacy project was launched with Gargano Park as a leader
repeated three times until the assignment in 2019
The highlight was the official handover of the flag of the International Orienteering Federation by the Hungarian authorities to the Italian Committee in August 2021 during the World Masters Championships in Csákvár in Hungary
including the pandemic and recent problems in Eastern Europe
The desire to show this landscape pearl of Italy that is the Gargano and the belief in offering an opportunity to young people have pushed the Committee to continue pushing the heart beyond all obstacles
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A Lonely Planet guide to Australia once described Bennetts Lane as “the world’s best jazz club”
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I grew up in the suburb of Footscray in a large family
All of the 133 cardinals expected to take part in the secret conclave to elect a new Pope have arrived in Rome
with the race to succeed Pope Francis seen as wide open
AC Milan scored twice in two minutes to beat Genoa 2-1 in Serie A and keep alive their slim hopes of a place in next year’s Champions League
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The Rock Garden Estates plan is proposed to be built at a 70-hectare property located between the 5th and 6th Line
The Coventry Park development is proposed to be built next to Coventry Park
at a large property located west of Tottenham Road and south of the 5th Line
The Huntington Woods proposal at 6209 14th Line in Alliston is described as a residential community designed for seniors of all stages in life
The New Tecumseth Administration Centre in Alliston
Council will be asked provide comments on the three requests at an upcoming committee of the whole meeting
and the information within may be out of date
More developers are lining up to ask the Town of New Tecumseth to support their plans to request a Minister’s Zoning Order (MZO) to approve large-scale developments in Alliston and Tottenham
relate to Totten Investment Inc.’s Coventry Park Neighbourhood Plan and Rock Garden Estates Inc
and San Marco in Lamis Ltd.’s proposal for Huntington Woods in Alliston
All of the proposed developments are located outside the settlement area boundaries for both communities
The Coventry Park development is proposed to be built next to Coventry Park, at a large property located west of Tottenham Road and south of the 5th Line
The documents submitted to the town state the development would include a range of housing types
and also a 200-bed-long-term-care facility
The Rock Garden Estates is proposed to be built at a 70-hectare property located on the north side of the 5th Line, west of Tottenham Road. The lands were recently purchased by the owner of Woodington Lakes Golf Course
The plan says the property would be used for employment uses and commercial uses along the 5th Line
The proposal also says two manufacturing companies have expressed interest in expanding their operations at the property
which would bring almost 2,000 “good paying” jobs to the area
The north end of the property toward the 6th Line would be used for residential and community uses
including “expanded natural areas” and also for “alternative forms” of housing
The Huntington Woods proposal at 6209 14th Line in Alliston, between Industrial Parkway and 10 Sideroad
is described as a residential community designed for seniors of all stages in life
plus a 120-bed long-term-care facility and community centre
The MZO is a tool at the disposal of the province that allows the minister of municipal affairs and housing to designate land uses
which in turn lets developers bypass the normal planning approval process at the municipal level
While MZOs used to be reserved for extraordinary cases
the Ford government has been using them more frequently in the past two years
An MZO removes the requirement for any public consultation
along with the possibility of appealing the land use designation at the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT)
While the minister of municipal affairs and housing is the one who ultimately approves MZOs, the ministry told Simcoe.com it doesn’t consider requests for approval unless they have the full backing of the municipal council
Councillors will be asked to provide comments on the three requests at an upcoming committee of the whole meeting
Simcoe.com asked New Tecumseth Mayor Rick Milne to explain how he thinks the town should deal with the influx of MZOs
sending it to staff to make a report when all information has been gathered
and send it back to council to make a decision,” he said
These requests follow on the heels of FLATO’s MZO request for a 995-unit development outside Beeton’s settlement boundary that proposes to provide attainable housing for seniors
Council voted 7-3 in favour of the proposal at a special meeting held Oct
but council is expected to discuss the issue again at the Nov
4 meeting to finalize a list of conditions the town wants to include in its letter of support to the province
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The Carlton Football Club has long been linked with Melbourne’s vibrant Italian community
The old Princes Park ground flanks what was once a tight-knit enclave of Italian migrants
who lugged their suitcases from the weather-beaten wharfs of Victoria Dock and Station Pier to the old boarding houses dotted in and around Lygon Street
who disembarked the Regina d’Italia after seven weeks at sea in September 1924
but not before he’d spent his first night in the new country sleeping beneath a pile of newspapers by a Moreton Bay fig tree in Melbourne’s Exhibition Gardens
no-one had heard of the “Silvagni” surname
Today it’s as much a part of the Carlton vernacular as the club’s re-worked lyrics of Lily of Laguna
Jack’s son Sergio is a first generation Australian of Italian origin
as are Serge’s League contemporaries like Albert Mantello
Tony Liberatore and more recently Peter Riccardi
Saverio and Anthony Rocca and the Carlton captain Anthony Koutoufides
whose mother Anna was born in the Northern Italian town of Arcade
of the 113 senior VFL/AFL footballers known to have been born overseas in the 107 years since the competition’s formation
none are listed as having been born in Italy
“I always thought I was the first and only Italian-born League footballer
in fact I’ve suspected it for some time,” Peter said
“I’ve often mentioned it as a trivia question
Pietro Paolo Bevilacqua was born at San Marco in Lamis
on the south-eastern side of Italy flanking the Adriatic Sea
He was so named because his birthday fell on the feast day of St Peter and St Paul – June 29
Peter’s date of birth was registered with the local municipality two days later on July 1 and is the date which has appeared on all his official papers in the seven decades since
was one of thirteen children born to Angela and Antonio Bevilacqua in San Marco in Lamis in July 1897
the year the Victorian Football League was formed
Raffaele exchanged marriage vows with Carolina Villani at the local San Marco registry
Carolina presented Raffaele with their first child
whose life changed inexorably early in 1926
According to memoirs penned years later by his son Joe
Raffaele “encountered three goat herders who
would encourage their goats to feed from whoever’s property they were passing”
“They were not aware Raffaele was in the house,” Joe wrote
Raffaele emerged and was involved in an altercation with one of the herders
A few days later news was relayed to him that it would be in his interests to migrate
Raffaele bade farewell to his pregnant wife and two sons and trod the well-worn path to Foggia
boarding the passenger steamship Palermo at Naples in June 1926
He disembarked the vessel at Melbourne on August 4 that year
a little more than a month before his third son
Raffaele obtained work in the various Gippsland locales of Maffra
Lindenow and Bairnsdale where migrants from his old town – Sammarchesi as they were known – had earlier settled
Raffaele landed work on a property managed by an Australian of German descent
as attempts to send for his brother were in vain
Raffaele continued to work the property until January 1931
when word reached him of the death of his son
reaching San Marco on the feast of San Giuseppe in March
after Carolina’s father and their dead child
Peter’s memories of San Marco in Lamis are few
running around outside of the house and the dirt floor in the house,” he said
“I also remember my mother making my bed with a stick
where she used to wrap the blankets over a stick and flick them across the bed
And I remember running around with a split down the back of my pants
which was normal for we kids needing to use a toilet.”
Raffaele was confronted with yet another major decision
Mindful that the yield from his farm was struggling to meet the demands of his growing family
Raffaele again opted to turn to Australia as a future haven
In November of that year he bade farewell to Carolina and his four boys and boarded the steamship Viminale
disembarking at Port Melbourne in January 1936
Raffaele took up temporary lodgings in North Melbourne’s Italian enclave which surrounded the Queen Victoria Market
until he learned that work was available for a farmhand at Perricoota on the New South Wales side of the Murray River
Raffaele managed to raise enough money to arrange for the passage to Australia of his wife and four sons
Joe and Peter bade farewell to San Marco in Lamis and boarded the P & O liner
“I remember leaving home with my mother and my brothers and boarding a minibus for the drive through the night to Naples,” he said
I befriended an English couple and by the time I got here I was speaking a reasonable amount of English
I also remember Christmas day with all the presents going out to the children
which ended up over the side and they had to stop me jumping in after it.”
Carolina and her four boys were greeted by Raffaele
Together the five family members loaded their belongings onto a family friend’s Chevrolet truck and made the short trip to their temporary lodgings at 74 Docker Street
the Bevilacqua’s boarded a train to Moama and took up residence in a rental home on the Murray
Joe and Peter were enrolled into the local Moama school
How well Peter remembered his first day at school
“We stood out with the Italian shorts and braces over the shoulders
there were a few taunts and life as a whole wasn’t easy
In December 1939 the Bevilacquas relocated to Perricoota
while the boys slept in shearers sheds nearby
As rent was a little cheaper than at Moama
Raffaele put part of his earnings to a .22 rifle
The boys would chase rabbits into hollow logs and Peter would frighten them out with a stick
into the grasping hands of his older brother
Peter and Joe furthered their schooling by cycling five kilometres to Benarca primary – a one-teacher school – but not long after World War II began in Europe and the family opted to return to Melbourne to better their conditions
they moved into a rented premises at 125 Barry Street Carlton
“When we came to Melbourne we were the only Italians really there
In fact the only Italians I can recall in the area at the time were the Borsaris
who had a bike shop on the corner of Lygon and Grattan Streets,” Peter said
“People have said ‘You were more Italian than Australian’
I probably had more fights than feeds in Carlton because you had to look after yourself and I let any racist taunt get to me
I was probably nine at the time when a young bloke a few doors down who was three years older and a few stone heavier had a go at me
took me outside and made me put my fists up and say to the kid
but I think he was more scared of Mum than me.”
The Bevilacquas settled into their new surrounds
Carolina found solace in the company of Italian migrant families a short walk away in North Melbourne; families named Sfirro
from whom the promising Geelong footballer Kane Tenace is descended
It was amid this happy environment in September 1941 that Carolina gave birth to her last child and first daughter
having completed an initial working stint in a Victoria Street foundry
landed a job as a gardener at a Kew monastery through the assistance of father Ugo Modotti and later tended to the gardens of the Convent of the Good Shepherd in Abbotsford
Oldest son Anthony gained employment as a window frame maker in Bentleigh; Michael
went peapicking with a number of Sammarchesi to Yarra Valley locales such as Croydon
Wandin and Seville; and Peter and Joe were enrolled into St George’s Catholic Primary School in Drummond Street
not the least of which was an unusual game known as Australian Rules football – a personal favourite of Peter’s
“When we came to Melbourne they put us in grade two
a month later in grade three and the next year in grade four
As a natural progression of that I got through to grade eight and was fortunate enough to win a scholarship,” Peter said
The scholarship enabled Peter to further his studies at Parade College in East Melbourne
but after just two weeks he relocated to St Joseph’s North Melbourne
By then he had already developed a healthy appreciation for footy
We’d previously played together at St George’s and we would play together again at Yarragon when I was coaching in 1958/59,” Peter said
Peter and Joe were indeed gifted sportsmen
but the former had no idea as to the origins of his sporting genes
which was the year I and a few other Italians in and around Lygon Street and St George’s Carlton joined
I also managed to play two senior matches for Juventus that year,” Peter said
someone from the University Soccer Club invited me to training
and I ended up playing in a match at Fawkner Park
Uni Blues took on Melbourne High School Old Boys in a practice match at the Melbourne High School ground and after I finished playing soccer I went over to have a look
and probably the best full-forward in the VAFA
Someone had told him I played footy at St Kevin’s so at half-time he approached me asking if I wanted to play in the second half
I accepted the invitation and kicked four goals.”
Peter ultimately represented University in finals in that pivotal year of 1951 and then a premiership in ’52
By then he’d matriculated from St Joseph’s (through its St Kevin’s Campus) and embarked on medical studies at Melbourne University
Peter completed his Military Service at Puckapunyal
he took up a teaching course after struggling with his medical studies
accepting an invitation to train with the Carlton Football Club
“I was always a Carlton supporter and memories of Carlton always come flooding back,” Peter said
me and a few mates used to go to watch Carlton play every week
In the outer there used to be a double gate on the boundary line at the north-east corner of the ground where a policeman used to sit on a horse
We’d open the gate for him to ride onto the ground at quarter time
three quarter time and at the end of the game
“At three-quarter time we’d follow the horse out and hear Perc Bentley address the Carlton players because the cop knew that when the huddle broke up we’d race off and open the gate for him
“I was there for ‘The Bloodbath’ Grand Final of ’45 between Carlton and South Melbourne at Princes Park
The crowd tore down 100 metres of fence to get in that day because the gates were locked
so on Grand Final day me and a few mates literally hung from the rafters and had a bird’s eye of view
I can still see the ‘ray of sunshine’ that took Ken Hands out and I remember seeing was one of my heroes Jimmy Mooring
the blond bombshell Ron Savage and Bert Deacon playing
Deacon was fabulous as was proven when he won the Brownlow Medal in 1947
the club was first class compared with anywhere else
back then it was a real community involving the spectators
Peter’s emergence as a Carlton footballer was recorded by The Herald in February 1953
which carried a photograph of the 20 year-old
signing autographs for a couple of local Carlton kids
The caption read; “Carlton recruit Peter Bevilacqua
caught the interest of these youngsters as they watch him write out his difficult name in their autograph books
Peter turned out for the Carlton reserve grade team through season ’53
He strung together a series of creditable performances and after nine rounds was on the verge of senior selection
“I then played in a reserve grade match against Geelong and with 90 seconds to go
“The next week I tried to disguise the injury by strapping it up and training through
was awake to it and I wasn’t considered for a call-up
In those days you were notified in writing if you were selected
but there was a note placed in my letterbox the following Friday morning saying I was unfit for selection
It took me a few more games in the reserves before I finally broke through to the seniors.”
That came in the last week of August when the name “Bevilacqua” was pencilled into Carlton’s senior team sheet for the Round 18 match against North Melbourne at the old Arden Street ground
It was a momentous occasion for the boy from Foggia
named as 19th man for the final home and away fixture against the famous “Shinboners”
particularly Peter’s siblings Giuseppe and Angela
who made their way to the old ground with plenty of time to spare
While Joe had been a regular at Carlton fixtures
and was literally hanging from the rafters with Peter for “The Bloodbath”
Joe and Angela took their places next to the boundary fence on the eastern side of the ground
From that vantage point they saw their brother emerge from the bunker early in the third quarter – the first and last Italian-born senior League footballer known
He thought about those who had come before – men like Bob Chitty
Hands and Deacon who all wore the Carlton guernsey with distinction
“One of the difficulties in playing against North Melbourne was that the Shinboners
which included Ted Jarrard and Jock McCorkell (in their final senior appearances) and John Brady
were mostly ex-St Joseph’s boys from the old school team with whom I occasionally played,” Peter said
It was a terrific experience and I think we actually won the game.”
with Peter savouring barely 40 minutes of game time
It would prove his first and last hurrah at the elite level
as Carlton ended the 18-game home and away season fifth – three wins shy of a berth in the final four as it was then
Peter lined up for the Carlton reserve grade team
which boasted the likes of Gerald “The Turk” Burke and Dean Jones’ father Barney – aptly named too according to Peter “because he’d rather have a fight than a kick”
Peter featured in Carlton’s best players in all three matches of its successful finals series campaign
“I got a trophy for best first year player and a trophy for best performed player in the finals series,” he explained
Col Austen lined up on a half-back flank for Richmond and I was one of three rovers changing off him
Between the three of us we managed nine goals which was enough to get the team over the line,” Peter recalled
a real team leader and in his own way as tough as Bob Chitty
And we ended up beating North in the Grand Final too
it was our 15th win from the last 16 matches of that year.”
Peter had every reason to believe 1954 would be THE year as far as his senior football was concerned
But the Victorian Education Department intervened and the 20 year-old
was relocated to Traralgon where he met a fellow teacher and future wife Christine Underwood – herself the classic “ten pound Pom” having migrated to Australia from South End in Essex in 1951
I caught the train up and back to play for Carlton and the club paid my fares
but after a while I was told that I couldn’t play seniors unless I trained once a week,” Peter said
“I couldn’t fulfil that expectation and Carlton released me to Traralgon on the basis that if I ever returned to Melbourne I’d play for Carlton
Peter lined up for Traralgon for the last nine games of season ’54
finishing fourth in the competition’s best and fairest award and helping Traralgon into the finals
The following year he was relocated to Moe where there was an influx of migrants precipitated by the expansion of the electricity generation industry
He took to the field for the Moe Football Club as assistant coach
representing the club in the finals series of 1955
the winning Grand Final of 1956 and the finals series of ’57
Peter and Christine had married in St John’s East Melbourne in January 1957
he took his bride to his new posting at a one-teacher school at Budgeree in the hills near Moe
they began their new life and in November of that year
Peter furthered his football career by coaching Yinnar in the mid-Gippsland League in 1957
then La Trobe Valley Football League outfit Yarragon in 1958 and 59
His prowess as a footballer was recognised in 1959 when he took out the Victor Trood Cup and Rodda Medal for the competition’s best and fairest player
Peter successfully applied to join the newly-formed physical education sector of the Education Department
after returning to Melbourne University for his diploma in physical education
Peter and his family took up lodgings in a flat at Ascot Vale and
at a new house at Hadfield on land he had previously purchased
Peter also resumed his playing career with VFA club
in his capacity as Physical Education Advisor
Peter accepted the role at Essendon when the club’s resident advisor left for the United States
Peter served under the tutelage of senior coaches John Coleman for six years
during which time Essendon competed in three Grand Finals (two of which involved his old team)
“John Coleman was a tremendous coach in that he had that uncanny ability to get the best out of a player
He got very emotional in matches and I had an excellent relationship with him,” Peter said
Peter remembered Essendon ruckman Geoff Leek suffering an ankle injury on the Thursday night before the ’62 Grand Final
“From that moment on he had to run every four hours
He was given an injection and managed to counter John Nicholls and Graham Donaldson
who were two great ruckmen for Carlton,” Peter said
we lost Ken Fraser at full-forward and Greg Brown at full-back
“The ’62 and ’68 Grand Finals were bitter sweet for me
after completing a bachelor of arts degree and lecturing at the Coburg and Burwood Teachers Colleges
Peter was offered a teaching role at Marist Regional College just outside of Burnie
The offer was warmly received by Peter’s wife Christine
and Peter was again on the move – this time with his wife
daughter and three new additions – sons David (born 1962)
The family settled in Somerset and in early 1973 Peter commenced duties with the college for what would be a five and a half-year tenure
Peter maintained his involvement with football
Marist Regional College won four consecutive Northern titles and two consecutive state titles in independent schools competitions
In 1977 Peter was appointed senior coach of North Western Football Union club
taking the team to ten and a half wins for the season (after just two wins the previous year) and imparting his wisdom on its players
who would later win the 1983 Norm Smith Medal in Hawthorn’s Grand Final triumph over Essendon
The following year he was named Director of Coaching in Tasmania for the Australian National League
no Tasmanian team is represented in the Australian Football League
“It’s most disturbing as I firmly believe a national team should be based out of Tasmania and would be capable of fielding a competitive team in the national competition,” Peter said
“Melbourne can’t field more than eight teams
They [the AFL] should relocate a team to Tasmania
introduce a semi-moratorium on the recruitment of Tasmanian players and foster that interstate jealousy
there’s something like 40 Tasmanian players currently involved in AFL competition.”
after Peter accepted the role of Deputy Principal at Marist College
where he fulfilled duties as Secretary of the Tasmanian Catholic Education Employees Association
Peter’s daughter Robyn made the pilgrimage to San Marco in Lamis – 44 years after Peter bade farewell to the old home town
almost 70 years since he grasped his mother’s hand and strode down the well-worn gangway onto Station Pier
Peter Bevilacqua’s few memories of San Marco in Lamis are revived by videotaped images passed on from his older brothers
“Unfortunately I’ve never been back,” he said
“My wife and I put family before everything and there’s virtually no-one left in the old town now.”
died in Melbourne in April 1987 and his father Raffaele passed away nearly three years later
Both are buried at the Melbourne General Cemetery in Carlton
when I first played for St Georges Carlton
the surrounding grounds of Princes Park used to be my home oval
I had a great attachment to it,” Peter says
we weren’t too welcome in those days and during the war I probably had more fights than feeds
There was incidence of racial abuse at Carlton whatsoever (it was more the general community)
but the thing that changed it all was when we started to show ability on the football field.”
Though he made the odd pilgrimage to Princes Park when Sergio [Silvagni] was coaching the Carlton reserves
Peter has called Tasmania home since 1973 “and it’s been a few years since I’ve been back”
“And yet if I walked in tomorrow I’d feel like I never left because I’ve been affiliated with the place since I was seven or eight and we had the luxury of walking to the ground through the university and back again,” Peter says
“In those days Joe and I would raid the orchard for apples in Melbourne Uni and there are buildings where the orchard was now
Carlton was almost the hub of the Italian community – not so much Parkville
Now the Italians have all moved out to Mont Morency
One hundred and fifty years ago the working class Anglo Saxons built up their fortunes and moved out and the Italians followed suit
Now the young ones are moving in and renovating.”
Though Peter and his family have spent more than three decades on the Apple Isle
Peter Bevilacqua lives a full life (he still loves to swing a tennis racquet) and together with his wife Christine
panders to his four grandsons and watches them pursue their sporting activities including football
Peter and Christine live in the Hobart suburb of Howrah
the former Carlton vice-captain and an old teammate of Peter’s from the days of ’53
It’s more than half a century now since Peter completed his 40-minute cameo for Carlton and yet his place in football history is assured
But did he harbour any regrets with what might have been
but I’ve helped make a better life for my wife and my family,” Peter said
“In the back of my mind I always believed I was good enough to make it
football hasn’t been good to me – it’s been fantastic to me.”
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WORLD MASTERS ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS 8-16 LUGLIO
The World Masters Orienteering Championships greet the Gargano
In the long distance in the Umbra Forest the redemption of the Swiss Hubmann
the Ukrainian Marchuk is the new M35 champion
The 39-year-old Swedish Lonnkvist queen of the woods
triple for the 95-year-old Finnish Nieminen
In Peschici the closing ceremony of the international orienteering event
which has brought 3,000 athletes from 35 to 95 years from 40 different countries to the spur of Italy
The association of orienteering with the Gargano area will continue with the birth of the FISO Federal Center
The strategic skills of a chess player combined with the athletic skills of a runner
These are the skills fielded by 3 thousand athletes
from 40 countries and more than half Scandinavian
protagonists of the World Masters Orienteering Championships
which end in Gargano with the assignment of over 35 Long distance titles
With the organization of the International Orienteering Federation
the Italian Federation of Sport Orientation and the WMOC Committee
the event was able to count on the collaboration of Sport e Salute
together with the patronage of the Ministry of Tourism and the Province of Foggia and to the synergy of 14 municipalities (Vieste
in the presence of the Mayor Francesco Tavaglione
the Councilor for Sport Luca Esposito and Isabella Damiani from Vico del Gargano representing the Puglia Region
“After 14 years of waiting we managed to fulfill a dream
it was a great World Cup – declared Gabriele Viale
Director General of the WMOC 2022 Committee – We brought 3 thousand athletes from 40 countries to enjoy the technical features of the Apulian villages and the Umbra Forest
unique in the world from an oriental point of view
We have triggered an important path for the future of tourism deseasonalization as this discipline is practiced a lot in Scandinavian countries in spring and autumn
I have to thank all the staff and the organization
whose strength was based on the winning mix of technical resources
and young talent with their modern and technological language
We have made a system with FISO Puglia and the institutions
the Carabinieri Command and the Civil Protection of Vieste
the Biodiversity Department of Carabinieri
and the Municipal Police of the 14 Municipalities involved
We all have worked 110% to complete this project
but above all to promote the extraordinary identity of Puglia and the Gargano at an international level”
“A great participation for a World Championships – declared Sergio Anesi
President of the FISO Italian Federation of Sport Orientation – which Italy has been able to express in organizational terms
with the care shown in the realization of the various races
The prospect for Puglia is now really interesting with the arrival of new national and international competitions and the now forthcoming establishment of a FISO Federal Center
the second in Italy after the one on Alpe Cimbra which will be a reference for the center and south of the peninsula
The presence in the Gargano of people of all ages and entire families committed to practicing an outdoor discipline is the emblem of our sporting culture
which has an inherent social but also economic value due to the significant induced generated in the area”
LONG AND MIDDLE TITLES ASSIGNED IN THE UMBRA FOREST
At Riserva Falascone and Laghetto d’Umbra
the Long race (up to 10 km) on karst terrain
with sinkholes and depressions among the beech woods recognized 5 years ago as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO
the most medalist in the discipline in activity
the very favorite Swiss had to give way to the Ukrainian Marchuk Oleksandr with the Swedish team OK Sodertorn
In W35 Sweden Sofia Lonnkvist won gold medals in both finals in the forest
with 13 World Championships in his Palmares with the Swiss National
But the absolute phenomenon is the 95-year-old Finnish Sole Nieminen
“It was a good race – commented Sofia Lonnkvist – harder in my opinion than the Middle
The end of the route was the most demanding part of all but I appreciated the woodland
I tried to familiarize myself with the continuous ups and downs of the terrain to be ready for the final
I will bring back home from Gargano beautiful memories of my first World Masters Championships
as well as my first experience in this green and luxuriant area of Italy
the coast with its wonderful beaches”
The complete rankings and the winners of the Long races: https://bit.ly/3zbnABF
M35 / W35 – Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland) – Sofia Lonnkvist (Tullinge SK)
M40 / W40 – Oystein Kvaal Osterbo (Baekkelagets SK) – Celine Dodin (ACA Aix-en-Provence)
M45 / W45 – Petteri Muukkonen (OK Trian) – Yvonne Gunell (Pargas IF)
M50 / W50 – Fabrice Vannier (Balise77) – Vroni Koenig Salmi (Finland)
M55 / W55 – Svajunas Ambrazas (S Sportas) – Annika Viilo (Tampereen Pyrinto)
M60 / W60 – Jozef Pollak (Klub OB ATU Kosice) – Laila Hoglund (FK Herkules)
M65 / W65 – Jorma Nissila (Kokkolan Suunnistajat) – Kjellrun Sporild (Malvik il)
M70 / W70 – Tom Arild Karlsen (Fredrikstad Skiklubb) – Maria Nordwall (OK Kolmarden)
M75 / W75 – Veikko Loukonen (Piikkion Kehitys) – Kari Timenes Laugen (Imaas il)
M80 / W80 – Stig Israelsson (OK Tyloskog) – Torid Kvaal (Freidig)
M85 / W85 – Sivert Axelsson (Kalmar OK) – Eivor Steen Olsson (Kungalvs OK)
M90 – Kjell Arne Pettersson (Harlovs IF)
W95 – Sole Nieminen (Jamsan Retki Veikot)
The complete rankings and the winners of the Middle distance: https://bit.ly/3o32vmx
M35 – W35 – Oleksandr Marchuk (OK Sodertorn) – Sofia Lonnkvist (Tullinge SK)
M40 – W40 – Roman Ryapolov (IFK Mora OK) – Katri Lindeqvist (Paimion Rasti)
M45 – W45 – Marek Prasil (OK Jihlava) – Yvonne Gunell (Pargas IF)
M50 – W50 – Janne Salmi (Turun Suunnistajat) – Anna Gornicka Antonowicz (Stowarzyszenie Team 360 stopni)
M55 – W55 – Matti Yliluikki (Suomusjarven Sisu) – Annika Viilo (Tampereen Pyrinto)
M60 – W60 – Michael Wehlin (Skogspojkarnas OK) – Laila Hoglund (FK Herkules)
M65 – W65 – Antanas Pauzas (OK Dainava) – Lotta Linsefors (Lunds OK)
M70 – W70 – Bjorn Grinde (Oslostudentenes IK) – Britt Eriksson (Sala OK)
M75 – W75 – Timo Peltola (MS Parma) – Bjoerg Lohne Kocbach (Bergens TF)
M80 – W80 – Roland Karlsson (Ronneby OK) – Torid Kvaal (Freidig)
M85 – W85 – Jaroslav Havlik (Sportcentrum Jicin) – Eivor Steen Olsson (Kungalvs OK)
M90 – Martin Hutzli (Ulus Reisewelt)
SPRINT TITLES ASSIGNED BETWEEN PESCHICI AND VIESTE
After the qualifying session in the suggestive historic center of Peschici
Vieste definitely put the athletes to the test
The 3km route proved to be technically challenging both from a physical point of view
in light of the continuous and steep ups and downs between the streets of the town
forcing a careful reading of the map during the constant changes in direction
The arrival on the seafront of the Marina Piccola is not to be missed
including that of the favorite Sarah Rollins
with her 12 World Championships appearances with the Great Britain jersey and now W45 champion
The complete rankings and the winners of the Sprint races: https://bit.ly/3RpF1Wf
M35 – W35 – Francois Van der Ouderaa (Belgium) – Tatsiana Voveriene (Devyni OSK)
M40 – W40 – Alessio Tenani (Polisportiva G
Masi) – Katri Lindeqvist (Paimion Rasti)
M45 – W45 – Nick Barrable (South Yorkshire Orienteers) – Sarah Rollins (Southern Navigators Orienteering)
M50 – W50 – Fabrice Vannier (Balise77) – Anna Envall (IK Hakarpspojkarna)
M55 – W55 – Svajunas Ambrazas (S Sportas) – Annika Viilo (Tampereen Pyrinto)
M60 – W60 – Graham Patten (WARROC) – Laila Hoglund (FK Herkules)
M65 – W65 – Mario Ammann (OLG St
Gallen/Appenzell) – Unni Strand Karlsen (Fredrikstad Skiklubb)
M70 – W70 – Mikko Sani (Hollolan Urheilijat 46) – Maria Nordwall (OK Kolmarden)
M75 – W75 – Peter Gorvett (CADOC) – Bjoerg Lohne Kocbach (Bergens TF)
M80 – W80 – Otto Venhauer (OLCU Viktring) – Ulla Lindhe (IK Stern)
M85 – W85 – Rune Carlsson (Sundbybergs IK) – Inger E Vamnes (Hamar OK)
M90 – W90 – Martin Hutzli (Ulus Reisewelt) – Eileen Bedwell (Sugar Loaf OK)