The Colorful Blooms of Castelluccio, Italy

Alan Taylor
July 7, 2020
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In central Italy, the small village of Castelluccio sits atop a hill overlooking the Piano Grande—a broad basin surrounded by the Sibillini Mountains—where fields of lentils and poppies bloom every year, carpeting the landscape with a colorful quilt of blossoming flowers. Every summer the phenomenon is viewed by thousands of tourists, and this year, the photographers Antonio Masiello and Tiziana Fabi visited the fields, sending back these photos.

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A view of fields of blooming lentils and poppies during their annual blossom, on July 3, 2020, in Castelluccio, Italy. Castelluccio is a small village in the Umbria region where prized lentils are grown. Damage is still visible in the village, affected by an earthquake in October of 2016. #

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People walk through fields of blooming lentils and poppies in Castelluccio on July 3, 2020. #

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The fields and mountains of Castelluccio, photographed on July 3, 2020. #

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People visit Castelluccio's flowering fields on July 3, 2020. #

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People photograph the blooming fields, on July 3, 2020. #

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An aerial view of the blooming lentils and poppies near Castelluccio, on July 6, 2020 #

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This picture taken on July 6, 2020 shows a paraglider flying over fields near Castelluccio. #

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Clouds cast shadows on the fields of Castelluccio, on July 3, 2020. #

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People visit Castelluccio during the annual blossom of lentils and poppies, on July 3, 2020. #

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Blooming lentils and poppies in Castelluccio #

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A view of the fields and surrounding hills in Castelluccio #

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Blooming lentil and poppies carpet the wide basin in Castelluccio, photographed on July 3, 2020. #

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Tourists walk through the blooming fields of Castelluccio on July 6, 2020. #

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The village of Castelluccio sits atop a hill looking down on the fields of lentils and poppies in central Italy's Umbria region, photographed on July 6, 2020. #

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