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Monte Lauro, Buccheri, Sicilia

Sicily often conjures up images of beaches and suntans, but once had a great reputation for ice. Gathering snow and compacting it into ice has been done for centuries, and Sicily’s high mountains provided ice not only for its hot coastal cities, but was shipped as far as Tunisia and Malta. On the... 

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