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Content from the Mediterranean. Italian opera singers living abroad from a caravan 🇪🇸 | Ithaca Bound —

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Lorca, Spain 🇪🇸 — During a tour that Juan José Miñarro Sánchez hosted for @AndrewSchiestel in Lorca, Murcia, the two came across an olive tree believed to be around 500 years old.

Juan José’s family appeared in this Ithaca Bound Video Series episode —

https://t.co/gYDbO1HOEo

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Alicante, Spain 🇪🇸 — Annually, Alicante hosts The Carnival, a Catholic-oriented festival that is amongst the largest in the autonomous community of Valencia. In this video, scenes are caught on its pinnacle day—the Saturday before Lent.

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Alicante, Spain 🇪🇸 — Freddy Asanjo Perez, owner and operator of El Rincón de Alma, makes paella at his restaurant. (Filmed, February 6, 2022)

Based in the Centro in Alicante, Spain, Freddy started El Rincón de Alma in 2012.

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Granada, Spain 🇪🇸 — In this Ithaca Bound episode, @AndrewSchiestel visits Italian opera singers, Christian Chiapperini and Diana Vassallo, who are travelling abroad, living from their caravan and street performing.

https://t.co/G2f9SmtB0j

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Alicante, Spain 🇪🇸 — In Alicante, Spain, is Michelen Star, Monastrell. In this video, Proprietor and Exec. Chef María José San Román escorts @AndrewSchiestel to the restaurant’s terraza (terrace).

To read the article — https://t.co/2RCDqJU4QW

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Province of Málaga, Spain 🇪🇸 — Verónica of Alfar Tierra Cocida explains the landscape from her mountain estate in the Montes de Málaga, a 30-minute drive from the Centro of the City of Málaga. The company offers retreats at their mountain home.

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Muro de Alcoy region, Spain 🇪🇸  — Carlos Cano Martínez of Almazara La Alquería (@LaAlqueria_aove) pulls some camomile out of the ground to demonstrate how an orchard’s environment influences the taste of the EVOO that the olive trees produce.

Article — https://t.co/LdmVan7ZLe

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Casabermeja, Spain 🇪🇸 — Juan Salvador Cabello of Molino del Hortelano (@MolinoDelHortel) describes the high polyphenol rating that the Picuda cultivar from their 2020/21 harvest produced.

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Lorca, Spain 🇪🇸 — During a visit to Miñarro Sánchez’ family’s olive orchard, family member Juan José, and @AndrewSchiestel, have difficulty finding a water supply—but that’s not the end of the story.

The family appeared in this Ithaca Bound episode — https://t.co/gYDbO1HOEo

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Córdoba, Spain 🇪🇸 — During a visit to Huerta de Peñamelaria, a wild horse that lives at the orchard, Pía, arrived and joined the family’s gathering.

Huerta de Peñamelaria appeared in Ithaca Bound episode — https://t.co/dq68kXCoLI

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Carcabuey, Spain 🇪🇸 — Mario Méndez of Almazaras de la Subbética (@almasubbetica) drives @AndrewSchiestel to an olive orchard on the mountain, Pico Bermejo.

The co-operative appeared in this Ithaca Bound episode — https://t.co/SriUhNPTnx

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Alicante, Spain 🇪🇸 — Owner of El Rincón de Alma, Freddy Asanjo Perez, shares how his newborn daughter’s presence influenced the restaurant’s current name.

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Alicante, Spain 🇪🇸 — In this video @AndrewSchiestel visits Michelen Star restaurant, Monastrell, and its executive chef and proprietor, María José San Román (@mariazafran).

To read the article—https://t.co/54FQ68nrxF

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In this Ithaca Bound episode @AndrewSchiestel stays a night with a Spanish family in Lorca, Murcia, Spain. 🇪🇸

Almond trees, orange trees, an olive orchard, flamenco dancing, and more.

To watch the episode—https://t.co/gYDbO1HOEo

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Casabermeja, Spain 🇪🇸 — In this clip, @AndrewSchiestel visits an olive tree in the Province of Málaga, Spain, believed to be at least 1,200 years in age.

The tree is of an ancient uncategorized variety—known, in Spanish, as a paleovariedad.

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Alicante, Spain 🇪🇸 — Eutimio Fernández Pardo, a co-owner of Papelería Eutimio, speaks about his business and its history. Papelería Eutimio is a third generation family-owned business in Alicante, Spain.

Full article – https://t.co/NNXrZdmUzu

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Muro de Alcoy region, Spain 🇪🇸 — Carlos Cano Martínez of Almazara La Alquería (@LaAlqueria_aove) drives @AndrewSchiestel to a place in one of their orchards that contains olive trees that are believed could be a millennium in age.

Full article – https://t.co/LdmVan7ZLe

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Lorca, Spain 🇪🇸 — During a tour of Miñarro Sánchez’ family’s olive orchard, @AndrewSchiestel squeezes some olives to observe the natural oil they produce.

The family appeared in this Ithaca Bound episode — https://t.co/gYDbO1HOEo

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Córdoba, Spain 🇪🇸 — Couple José Penco Valenzuela and Nati Nieto of Córdoba, share a moment at their family’s olive orchard in the mountains.

The couple appeared in this Ithaca Bound episode — https://t.co/dq68kXCoLI

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Carcabuey, Spain 🇪🇸 — Freshly harvested olives at Almazaras de la Subbética (@almasubbetica) arrive at the mill to be processed. (Filmed, December 10, 2021)

The co-operative appeared in this Ithaca Bound episode — https://t.co/SriUhNPTnx

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Alicante, Spain 🇪🇸 — Michelen Star Chef María José San Román (@mariazafran) speaks about a major renovation last year at the first restaurant she opened—in 1975—3BK (@Tribecamusicbar).

To read the article – https://t.co/lvihIfiuLM

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