ITALY: MONA LISA BACKGROUND. LORENZO FIORI
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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1890 BOBBIO
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm John Batchel to my good colleague Lorenzo Fiore. |
| 0:10.9 | He is in Babio, Babio, Italy. |
| 0:14.1 | A beautiful picture I see in looking up, Babio, but there's much more to it. |
| 0:19.9 | There's a secret that is now to be revealed. |
| 0:23.4 | Lorenzo, wonderful. |
| 0:24.8 | You're in Bobio, which is an ancient village. |
| 0:27.9 | However, it is also the backdrop for a famous painting. |
| 0:32.3 | Please introduce us to Bobio. |
| 0:34.7 | What do you see? |
| 0:35.8 | What is there and about the bridge before we get to the famous |
| 0:39.3 | painting? What about the bridge? Good evening to you. Good evening, John, and good evening |
| 0:43.6 | to the radio listener. Well, let me tell you that Bobio is a sort of historical center or very |
| 0:49.4 | beautiful area, which is in between Liguria, Lombardia, Piemonte and Amelia. So it's a sort of golden |
| 0:59.8 | corner of five or four different Italian region. And it's in a very natural valley, the valley of |
| 1:09.8 | the Trabia River. And it's a valley, plenty of historical sites, the valley of the Trebia River, and it's a valley plenty of historical sites, |
| 1:14.5 | a lot of historical place, castle, towers and so on, particularly back to the middle age, |
| 1:22.0 | high middle age and lower middle age. |
| 1:24.9 | And it's an area that I do recommend tourists to pay a visit because the nature |
| 1:32.5 | is fantastic. The food is excellent and you can really enjoy because it's so green, a dense |
| 1:40.5 | forest, plenty of butterflies across this time in summertime, and in the wintertime, |
| 1:48.0 | the color in the fall season, and then in the wintertime you have the color of the full season |
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