Terraces

Italy’s streets are unpeopled — a contradiction of how life is lived in Italy, which, aside from the worst of the winter months, is pursued outside, on terraces with neighbors, and in the piazzas with friends.

The Banaue Rice Terraces are occasionally called the "Eighth Wonder of the World".

The terraces are connected on the sides by open colonnades.

Rachel's left-footed piledriver smacked the goalpost and rebounded away to safety to a chorus of agonised groans from the terraces.

So, Italy’s streets are unpeopled—a contradiction of how life is lived in Italy, which, aside from the worst of the winter months, is pursued outside, on terraces with neighbors, and in the piazzas with friends.