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Laundry Lines, Palermo, Italy, 1995

"Like startled doves, linens and underwear flap in the Mediterranean sun baking old Palermo's rugged Albergheria neighborhood. 'We get angry when it rains,' says a native Palermitan. 'It's an insult, and we take it personally.'"

—From "Italy Apart—Sicily," August 1995, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by William Albert Allard