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You're not allowed to say "central". There's only North and South, black and white. And then we argue for 100 pages more where that mythical dividing line goes.
It is not a northern city either but i'd rather say central Europe. In common with switzerland, northern Italy and southern Germany. This is where i feel the most at home, outside of home, within Europe.
I don't know Lyon well, but northern Italy is still southern Europe.
I have the impressions that Napolitans or Pugliese have a harder time fitting in the Bologna life than i do, and yet I'm a foreigner.
I don't think so. It still has more things in common with the rest of Italy than Germany, Austria, Poland or Switzerland.
What do you mean with mediterranean culture?
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I don't think so. It still has more things in common with the rest of Italy than Germany, Austria, Poland or Switzerland. Also southern Europe doesn't necessarily mean "mediterranean culture".
"Mediterranean culture" is not homogenous. All mediterranean is not necessary Naples-like. barcelona is nothing like that yet it is very mediterranean and similar to southern Italian latitudes"
I don't think so. It still has more things in common with the rest of Italy than Germany, Austria, Poland or Switzerland.
What do you mean with mediterranean culture?
Something i feel when i visit relatives in Southern France and which seems to appear only once I arrive around florence area and southward. Not here, or not to the same extent at least.
Something i feel when i visit relatives in Southern France and which seems to appear only once I arrive around florence area and southward. Not here, or not to the same extent at least.
What does southern culture mean anyway ?
I don't know what is "southern" culture, each place has its own features and not all southern Europe is mediterranean or has its stereotypes.
Bologna hasn't anything in common with Mitteleuropa.
Also I live in Italy but I've never heard before that northern Italy is part of central Europe.
"Mediterranean culture" is not homogenous. All mediterranean is not necessary Naples-like. barcelona is nothing like that yet it is very mediterranean and similar to southern Italian latitudes"
Yes, Southern Europe is varied and not just stereotypically "mediterranean".
Bulgaria, Thrace, Aquitaine or Basque Country haven't the same culture, climate, history, architecture or traditions of Sicily and Crete.
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Yes, Southern Europe is varied and not just stereotypically "mediterranean".
Bulgaria, Thrace, Aquitaine or Basque Country haven't the same culture, climate, history, architecture or traditions of Sicily and Crete.
Yes, very true. It seeme in this forum many people have very restrictive and stereotypical images of what "northern" or "southern" Europe is supposed to be. They think that to be "southern", a place must be chaotic, like the stereotypes of southern Italy or like Greece. Those stereotypes fit only to some places (and very caricaturally), Spain, even in ths south doesn't fit at all this stereotype, but still as much, if not more southern European than Athens. The same way, some people here thnik that to be northern Europe you need to be fitting the Scandinavian stereotypes only : wild places of boreal forests, etc. Even Denmark and Sweden (the most populated parts of Scandinavia) do not really fit that stereotype)...
Hello saxonwold - thank you but you know I think I know where Poitiers is, I live nearly two hours away from it.
I know you do. You are from France, but did you know that Poitiers is already in southern France? At least from what you wrote, it didn't seem like it. If you live south of Poitiers, you are in Southern Europe without a doubt.
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