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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffee house (ahwa), a popular meeting place where chess and domino players can chat smoking sheesha, the traditional water pipe. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffee house (ahwa), a popular meeting place where chess and domino players can chat smoking sheesha, the traditional water pipe. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The Saint Lawrence Band Club founded in 1883 is a non-profit organisation with the main scope of teaching music and of being the social hub of Vittoriosa. The band in 1891 also obtained the patronage of the duke of Edinburgh which consequently became the band's name. In the last years tha band changed his name in Saint Lawrence Band Club.
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  • The Saint Lawrence Band Club founded in 1883 is a non-profit organisation with the main scope of teaching music and of being the social hub of Vittoriosa. The band in 1891 also obtained the patronage of the duke of Edinburgh which consequently became the band’s name. In the last years tha band changed his name in Saint Lawrence Band Club.
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  • The Saint Lawrence Band Club founded in 1883 is a non-profit organisation with the main scope of teaching music and of being the social hub of Vittoriosa. The band in 1891 also obtained the patronage of the duke of Edinburgh which consequently became the band's name. In the last years tha band changed his name in Saint Lawrence Band Club.
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  • The Merry Cemetery (Cimitirul Vesel in Romanian) of S?pân?a, Maramure? county, is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing in an original and poetic manner, the life of the local people buried there with scenes from their lives and work. The Merry Cemetery, now an open-air museum, is linked to the name of the local artist Stan Ioan P?tra? who in 1935 sculpted the first tombstone cross. In 1960s, more than 800 of such oak wood crosses came into this unusual cemetery.
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  • Chichen Itzà, the Main Ball Court, carving showing pelota’s players.
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  • Chichen Itzà, the Main Ball Court, carving showing pelota’s players.
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  • Chichen Itzà, the Main Ball Court, carving showing pelota’s players.
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  • Chichen Itzà, the Main Ball Court, carving showing pelota’s players.
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  • Chichen Itzà, the Main Ball Court, carving showing pelota’s game.
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  • Porto Seguro, the harbour.
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  • Henley-on-Thames is a market town in the heart of Oxfordshire, offering a weekly market, fantastic range of independent shops, places to eat and local history. The bridge on the Thames river. Legend has it that Shakespeare visited the High Street during his time as a strolling player.  This village has been the third Causton fictional town of Midsomer Murders.
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  • Henley-on-Thames is a market town in the heart of Oxfordshire, offering a weekly market, fantastic range of independent shops, places to eat and local history. The Legend has it that Shakespeare visited the High Street during his time as a strolling player.  This village has been the third Causton fictional town of Midsomer Murders.
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  • Henley-on-Thames is a market town in the heart of Oxfordshire, offering a weekly market, fantastic range of independent shops, places to eat and local history. Legend has it that Shakespeare visited the High Street during his time as a strolling player.  This village has been the third Causton fictional town of Midsomer Murders.
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  • Henley-on-Thames is a market town in the heart of Oxfordshire, offering a weekly market, fantastic range of independent shops, places to eat and local history. St Mary's church.  Legend has it that Shakespeare visited the High Street during his time as a strolling player.  This village has been the third Causton fictional town of Midsomer Murders.
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  • Henley-on-Thames is a market town in the heart of Oxfordshire, offering a weekly market, fantastic range of independent shops, places to eat and local history. the High street. Legend has it that Shakespeare visited the High Street during his time as a strolling player.  This village has been the third Causton fictional town of Midsomer Murders.
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  • Henley-on-Thames is a market town in the heart of Oxfordshire, offering a weekly market, fantastic range of independent shops, places to eat and local history. Legend has it that Shakespeare visited the High Street during his time as a strolling player. This village has been the third Causton fictional town of Midsomer Murders.
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  • Henley-on-Thames is a market town in the heart of Oxfordshire, offering a weekly market, fantastic range of independent shops, places to eat and local history. the High street. Legend has it that Shakespeare visited the High Street during his time as a strolling player.  This village has been the third Causton fictional town of Midsomer Murders.
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  • Henley-on-Thames is a market town in the heart of Oxfordshire, offering a weekly market, fantastic range of independent shops, places to eat and local history. The bridge on the Thames river. Legend has it that Shakespeare visited the High Street during his time as a strolling player.  This village has been the third Causton fictional town of Midsomer Murders.
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  • Henley-on-Thames is a market town in the heart of Oxfordshire, offering a weekly market, fantastic range of independent shops, places to eat and local history. Legend has it that Shakespeare visited the High Street during his time as a strolling player. This village has been the third Causton fictional town of Midsomer Murders.
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  • Wallingford, the Corn Exchange, now a theatre. This village has been the first Causton fictional town of Midsomer Murders. From left: John Warburta, Dany Shimards, Peter Uttey. They worked as extras and help in Midsomer Murders and are part of the Sinodun players, an amateur dramatic group provided extras for episodes of Midsomer Murders.
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  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Langhe. Fronton of Santo Stefano Belbo, home of the legendary champion Augusto Manzo. Roberto Corino, who won three consecutive championships between 2006 and 2008. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe, Alba. The historical Mermet Fronton. Roberto Corino, captain batsman of Aigusto Manzo team of Santo Stefano Belbo,  won three consecutive championships between 2006 and 2008.  The players utilise a  bandaged fist 12 meters long to hit a rubber ball who has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe, Alba. The historical Mermet Fronton. Massimo Vacchetto, captain batsman of the local team, Albese.  The players utilise a  bandaged fist 12 meters long to hit a rubber ball who has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. Luca Galliano is the captain batsman of the Monferrina local team. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. Luca Galliano is the captain batsman of the Monferrina local team. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe. The main square of Bubbio, "piazza del Pallone" is the last fronton in a public space where is still played the traditionalpallapugno game. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe. The main square of Bubbio, "piazza del Pallone" is the last fronton in a public space where is still played the traditionalpallapugno game. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Chess players looking for The Guinness of play chess in a public square.
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  • Langhe, Alba. The historical Mermet Fronton. Roberto Corino, captain batsman of Aigusto Manzo team of Santo Stefano Belbo,  won three consecutive championships between 2006 and 2008.  The players utilise a  bandaged fist 12 meters long to hit a rubber ball who has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe, Alba. The historical Mermet Fronton. Massimo Vacchetto, captain batsman of the local team, Albese.  The players utilise a  bandaged fist 12 meters long to hit a rubber ball who has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe, Alba. The historical Mermet Fronton. Massimo Vacchetto, captain batsman of the local team, Albese.  The players utilise a  bandaged fist 12 meters long to hit a rubber ball who has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe. Fronton of Santo Stefano Belbo, home of the legendary champion Augusto Manzo. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. Bruno Campagno is the captain batsman of the Canalese team. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. Bruno Campagno is the captain batsman of the Canalese team. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. Bruno Campagno is the captain batsman of the Canalese team. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. The players utilise a  bandaged fist to hit a rubber ball who has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with aEvery team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe, Fronton of Santo Stefano Belbo. Preparation and control of the balls utilised for the traditional Pallapugno game that, fot the Firts League must weigh 190 grams. After the closing of the last local factory they arrive from Thailand. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with aEvery team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe. Fronton of Santo Stefano Belbo, the dressing room of the local team Augusto Manzo, named after a famous champion. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with aEvery team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe. Fronton of Santo Stefano Belbo, the dressing room of the local team Augusto Manzo, named after a famous champion. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with aEvery team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
    em7233755.jpg
  • Langhe. The main square of Bubbio, "piazza del Pallone" is the last fronton in a public space where is still played the traditionalpallapugno game. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Langhe, Alba. The historical Mermet Fronton. Roberto Corino, captain batsman of Aigusto Manzo team of Santo Stefano Belbo,  won three consecutive championships between 2006 and 2008.  The players utilise a  bandaged fist 12 meters long to hit a rubber ball who has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe, Alba. The historical Mermet Fronton, signals used by the linesman in the matches of Pallapugno. Once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe, Alba. The historical Mermet Fronton. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. Bruno Campagno is the captain batsman of the Canalese team. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. Bruno Campagno is the captain batsman of the Canalese team. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. The players utilise a  bandaged fist to hit a rubber ball who has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with aEvery team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Vignale Monferrato. The local fronton is one of the most beautiful in the western Piedmont. First league match between the local team and Canale's team. Bruno Campagno is the captain batsman of the Canalese team. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe. The main square of Bubbio, "piazza del Pallone" is the last fronton in a public space where is still played the traditionalpallapugno game. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Langhe. The main square of Bubbio, "piazza del Pallone" is the last fronton in a public space where is still played the traditionalpallapugno game. Pallapugno, once named "pallone elastico", is a traditional game still played in Piedmont and Liguria with a bandaged fist. Rubber ball has diameter of 10,5 centimetres and weighs 190 grams. Every team has 4 players and the team which wins 11 games is final winner of the match. Professional players dispute their matches in sferisterio 90 metres long and 18 metres large with lateral wall. Professional Italian pallapugno league is top level of competitions.
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  • Cleja village, Klésza in Hungarian, one of the best players of the tilinkà, the traditional  flute of this region. For the csango people music is literally part of the life.
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