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Sweet pea is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae, native to Sicily, southern Italy and the Aegean Islands. It is an annual climbing plant, growing to a height of 1–2 meters, where suitable support is available. The leaves are pinnate with two leaflets and a terminal tendril, which twines around supporting plants and structures helping the sweet pea to climb. The flowers are purple, 2-3.5 centimeters broad, in the wild plant. Source
Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.6 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The name Piedmont comes from medieval Latin Pedemontium or Pedemontis, i.e., ad pedem montium, meaning “at the foot of the mountains. Piedmont is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monviso, where the Po rises, and Monte Rosa. Source
Assisi is a town and comune of Italy in the province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It was the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare (Chiara d'Offreducci), the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. The 19th-century Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows was also born in Assisi. Around 1000 BC a wave of immigrants settled in the upper Tiber valley as far as the Adriatic Sea, and also in the neighborhood of Assisi. Source
Villa Carlotta
is a villa in Northern Italy on Lake Como. It was built for the Milanese marquis
Giorgio Clerici in 1690 and extends over a 70,000 m2 area in Tremezzo, facing the Bellagio
peninsula. An Italian garden with steps, fountains and sculptures was laid out
at the same time. Among the statues, Mars
and Venus by Luigi Acquisti is remarkable. The architect who designed the
villa is unknown. It was completed in 1745 and remained in the hands of Marquis
Clerici until 1795, when it passed by marriage to the banker and Napoleonic
politician Giambattista Sommariva, who added a pediment and clock. Source
