Italia🇮🇹 vs. Venezuela🇻🇪 [Cross-Culture Challenge by @itchyfeetdonica]

Five years ago I lived for some months in a northern Italy village. It was my last travel before we entered in a critical survival mode in Venezuela due to the tyranny's efforts of implementation of communism, corruption and a long bad management of our natural resources, we were hit by a high-rocketing hyperinflation that caused us worrying mainly about finding some food. In the latest years most people's lifestyle in my country has been driven into a struggle for everything. I have been feeling like if I was swallowed by a giant blackhole and then I am living in another dimension. But I wanted to join my friend @itchyfeetdonica Culture Challenge and decided to share some old pics to remember good things and show some contrasts between those two cultures I could experience.

In the italian alps I could find lots of apples🍎🍏 once it was a fest where everything was about this fruit..it was called "La Festa delle Mele" or so..and I saw hundreds of different types of apples each one with different names, in Venezuela we don't have apples but tropical juicy mangoes when is mago-time and bananas the whole year😋 we also love our tropical oranges, papaya, pinneapples but we have a current lack of production of everything in my destroyed country and agriculture needs to be reactivated, in the north of Italy they produces lot of grains, soybeans, meat, and dairy products. They are also very involved with recycling and had different cans for waste I hope I could see people doing the same here!

Water wells fascinates me, looks magical☄ In Italy there were lots of ancient water wells whit tons of coins inside people threw with wishes. In Venezuela you are lucky if you find one, like me in the right pic, but it was a modern one in a hostal.

Italy is plenty of Art and antiques, in small villages I didn't spotted any modern contemporary design but all was finest, pale, elegant and ancient. The odor I noticed in each corner remembered me the same of old books!🤓📚

Here art is more colorful and funny..

Precious porcelain dolls in Italy vs. warm and simple trap dolls in Venezuela... I also noticed they are more sofisticated making handcrafts as here handmade are not considered luxury items..

I could find an infinite variety of fresh and delicious cheeses in Italy. Food was exquisite. In Venezuela before the scarcity we loved to fill plates with tons of sauces😁 Chefs used to criticize that this way venezuelans covered the flavor of the main food! But well I was a fanatic of putting everything I found over my hot dog or other foods to experience a more tasty meal😁

Hey take a look at this cuteness👀 Butterflies have owl faces drawings in their wings in Italy as in Venezuela they have happy faces! LOL

As I was there in autumm-winter mostly I was inside a house due to the cold weather, covered with tons of dark and sad clothes and that jacket that looked like a bag for garbage🤣 I really missed wearing light, fresh and colorful! I really felt I was ten years older there!👵

Italians love beautiful and lovely fountains, here are few but are more wild.

The sun there seemed softer as here looks magnificient and brighter, I think warm weather influences over the character of the people as there you could spot angry faces in each corner, most people didn't smile or interacted focusing on their own stuff as in Venezuela good mood predominates despite the problems.

Here is a comparison between two sunsets..

Public parks were stunning, peaceful and beautiful places..here people prefers to enjoy cool beaches and loud music!

Religious art where in each corner, I loved that you could find beautiful paintings over whatever wall in the street and people respected it, I mean here most people is not so civilizated not to think on writing over and ruin that!☹
And instead candid art here we have striking murals...

The most shocking impact I experienced in that travel was when I came back, I traveled from Torino to Milano to Rome and then finally arrived in Caracas to go my city so I turned from a cold, quiet, elegant, educated, well tasted, organizated, clean and safe to a friendly but loud, hot, chaos, warm, noisy, dirty and dangerous environment. To be honest I felt scared and very weird arriving home.

Behind me the river Po and a monastery in the hills.
In Venezuela we also have beautiful natural peaceful places like this beautiful lagoon, but those places are expensive to visit for us, most venezuelans can't afford doing turism in our own country not to mention the bad conditions of the roads and risks. Hope things will change.

Talking about sports, as in Italy they love football🥅⚽️, Venezuela loves baseball!

I am hoping to feel freedom again, looks like we are going to taste liberty soon and enjoy rebuilding our country bringing back our stopped cultural traditions! I just can think on having our delicious and tasty Christmas food back! I think we're on the road to get back to our normal lives. Lets hope🕊

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