Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen blühn?

Know’st thou the land where lemon-trees do bloom?

(“Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship”, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Ours is the land of lemons, and not only.

Lemons, of which Sicily abounds, because, according to the German writer, you have not really seen Italy if you have not seen Sicily. Lemons as on Lake Garda, with its famous lemon groves that so much struck J.W. Goethe on September 13, 1786, while he was sailing from Torbole to Malcesine.

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