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“Do you know the land of flowering lemons,
where the golden oranges shine among the
dark foliage, a mild breeze blows from the
clear blue sky, calm is the myrtle and the bay
tree sublime, do you perhaps know it?
Down there, down there I’d like to go with
you, my beloved!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ballad, Colle-
cted poems.
The South is a symbolic place. It is a dazzling
light where the work of mankind blends with
nature and reveals the harmony between
imagination and learning. A language redo-
lent of signs, forms and colours. The poetry
of proportions, the nostalgia of freedom.
Travel notes. South
