Day 25: Troia to Castelluccio dei Sauri

Again today the weather was lovely and the Way (27.43 km), was a mostly flat walk along farm roads (unsealed) and back roads (sealed), mostly exposed, so, I'm glad it wasn't really hot. I walked through farmland, in what I would call a podcast day. As after about seven km, I needed some entertainment. I had a lovely coffee and a nice break at Giardinetto Vecciho. After that, I came to an area, many kilometers long, where the derelict buildings, separated by obvious allotments of farmland, where labeled "ONC" and a number (e.g. "ONC 709") I looked into it later and found it was an organization, the Opera Nazionale Combattenti, in which the agricultural arm coordinated the expropriation of lands and their "colonisation" by vetrans. It had been created after WWI, 1917, and was dissolved in 1977. The land is still being farmed, so I have no idea who farms it now - though at least two of the properties I saw where occupied. I also saw two trains (always a treat) and a, quite large, black snake slithering on an abandoned building. I wish I had been quick enough to take a photo.Read more