{"id":3164,"date":"2015-06-12T14:13:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2015-06-12T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T21:13:32","slug":"how-pizza-margharita-got-its-name-plus-enchanting-dolceacqua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/12\/how-pizza-margharita-got-its-name-plus-enchanting-dolceacqua\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pizza Margharita Got It’s Name PLUS Enchanting Dolceacqua"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DA<\/a> That’s the Castello at Dolceacqua<\/a>, alongside Claude Monet’s wonderful portrayal\u00a0of it.\u00a0\u00a0It stands at the start of the stone pathway that crosses the bridge and leads into this ancient, wonderful beehive where, since the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries people have\u00a0lived, shopped and tolerated the tourists.<\/p>\n

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It’s a quiet, special treasure, a bit mysterious, mixing the distant past with today, and\u00a0far more fun and exciting for us because we hadn’t expected much at all from this trip designed to get us out of the shopping center that is San Remo.<\/p>\n

\"GIUSIANA<\/a>NOW – about that Pizza Margharita. \u00a0Our wonderful guide, Giusiana, as we passed a statue of “Regina Margharita” added yet another factor to her wonderful\u00a0narrative. \u00a0WHAT is the reason the much beloved Pizza Margharita bears her name? \u00a0A baker created it in the colors of the Italian flag: tomato sauce for red, basil for green and mozzarella for white — and dedicated it to her in thanks for her just and creative role as the first woman ruler of Italy.<\/p>\n

And there you have it – another brief, photo-heavy offering. \u00a0It’s late again – and it was a wonderful day. \u00a0I am reminded every day as we move from place to place of the value of travel – learning the narratives and dreams and history of other cultures and finding within them lessons for our own.<\/p>\n

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That’s the Castello at Dolceacqua, alongside Claude Monet’s wonderful portrayal\u00a0of it.\u00a0\u00a0It stands at the start of the stone pathway that crosses the bridge and leads into this ancient, wonderful beehive where, since the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries people have\u00a0lived, shopped and tolerated the tourists. It’s a quiet, special treasure, a bit mysterious, mixing the … Continue reading How Pizza Margharita Got It’s Name PLUS Enchanting Dolceacqua<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[3286,3288,3290,3272,3287,3289,3293,3291,3292,3283,3284,2621,2640,3282],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-travel","tag-claude-monet","tag-dolceacqua","tag-impressionists","tag-italy","tag-moner","tag-monet","tag-pizza","tag-pizza-margharita","tag-pizza-margherita","tag-riviera","tag-san-remo","tag-seabourn","tag-seabourn-cruise","tag-seabourn-sojourn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DA-BRIDGE-SIGN-5.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-P2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}