S13 Ep62: Stage 19 | Biella – Champoluc | Giro d’Italia 2025

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to Girovagando, the cycling podcast at the 2025 Girod Italia,
0:08.9	celebrating 10 years of the cycling podcast on the ground every day at the Girod Italia.
0:14.8	Today we are in Shampu-Luk.
0:17.3	Cozze chite and cozze vicine.
0:22.6	No sticud de chikora. No spikud de chikora. He said to becote, coze We should be able to He said it is you from the city who call it nature.
0:40.3	It is so abstract in your heads that even the name is abstract.
0:44.3	Here we say forest, pasture, stream, rock, things that one can point to with one's finger.
0:49.3	Things that can be used. If they can't be used, we don't give them a name because they don't do any good.
0:56.2	I'm not talking about you, Michele Pachchi. What am I talking about? And what did we hear there?
1:01.4	What did we, well, we heard one of the locals saying thank you to the judge of Italia for coming here in one of the local,
1:07.3	there are many local tongues. That was the patois that is spoken in the Valdosta.
1:11.6	But what did we hear after that?
1:12.6	What was I reading from?
1:13.6	It was a passage of a very famous book of an author whose house was at the foot of the very last climb of today's stage of the Giro D'Iro-Ditlietta
1:23.6	The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti, a book we've talked about in the Kilometra Zero episode
1:29.4	we released yesterday and your passage that you read, Daniel, Daniel, is one of the most famous
1:36.2	of the book which became a movie which describes also these beautiful mountains we are surrounded
1:42.6	by.
1:43.6	It puts man in his place, doesn't it?
1:46.0	A scenario like this, Michele, we've got a mountain called the Breit Horn, I think, behind us.
1:52.0	That's way over in Switzerland, over 4,000 meters.
1:55.0	Some of the highest mountains in the Alps are surrounding us.
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