Came across this lovely tree when I was walking from the house in Fossa along the road to the village cemetery. It stands looking to the Aterno Valley and the Apennines in Abruzzo with Gran Sasso in the distance.
* Interestingly, the oldest (scientifically dated) tree in Europe is in southern Italy. A craggy pine (Pinus heldreichii) that is 1230 years old and called, Italus (and is still growing).
Zoë Boccabella 
Hi! Zoe. Belli ricordi. Always a pleasure to walk the roads of Fossa where you meet nature & beauty at the same time.
Tanti Saluti e Auguri.
Thanks, Augusto, lovely that this brought back some fond memories for you, and so true about the roads around Fossa. Auguri!