The third evening of vacation we went to Ginosa, where Vitopaolo grew up. Its a 15 minute drive from Marina di Ginosa and feels totally different world. Ginosa is famous for its Gravina, this ravine had been inhabited from the paleolithic days up until the 1950's, when the last inhabitants moved into the city. In the Gravina you can see ancient caves and pieces of old houses, its quite amazing. Ginosa, like most of Puglia, has white stone buildings and streets. In recent years the government has been funding restoration in the oldest part of Ginosa, so a lot of it has been restored and is being restored. We stopped in two of the churches in town. The first one Chiesa dei Santi Medici houses statues of the patron saints of Ginosa, Cosimo and Damiano Medici. The second, Chiesa Matrice, has a statue of Madonna that was carried from America. The story goes something like this: in the early 1900's there were a large number of people who immigrated from Ginosa to America and were working in a mine. There was an accident in the mine and they heard the bells of the Chiesa Matrice and then they were saved. They made the statue and brought back to the church as a thanks.
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| Chiesa dei Santi Medici |
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| Inside Chiesa dei Santi Medici |
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| Patron saints of Ginosa |
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| Veggies on a plate signify that they sell them here |
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| A building for sale |
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| A fat cat on a leash, we saw a man walking him but I couldn't get a good picture |
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| The Gravina |
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| Houses in the Gravina |
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| Caves in the Gravina |
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| Herd of goats in the gravina |
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| Bonnie, Vitopaolo and me |
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| Chiesa Matrice |
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| Frescoes inside Chiesa Matrice |
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A funny man who showed us around Chiesa Matrice, he has an stricking resemblance to his dog in the picture above
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Thanks for all the good things you wrote on us. Nicola Natale
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