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Men at work on the pebbles street pavement
6:53
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Recordist's notes
Street pavement downtown in Pavia are made of river pebbles. Three workers here are building the pavement: one selects the best rounded stones fron a pile, puts them on a barrow and unloads on the ground, the other two gently dab the pebbles on the soil with small hammers and level them to the ground. The gentle sound created by this rhyhtmic work gives an idea of the patience required
About the place
Pavia is a town of about 65,734 people in Lombardy, Italy. OttoAnna lists 39 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Pavia, Via G da Ferrara, Italy - men at work on the pebbles street pavement” by Giovanni Raciti – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0