Manduria, Olive Grove

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The olive groves near Manduria (and throughout Puglia, Italy’s heel) have trees with old, old knurled trunks. We were told some of these olive groves are a thousand years old, and older. The knurled, twisted, sculptured trees present some of the most delightful and tangled sculpture imaginable. Some look like modernistic statues, others could be a substitute for a Rorschach ink-blot test.
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