Outliers

Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills of the Italian province of Foggia. In the style of medieval villages, the town is organized around a large central square. Facing the square is the Palazzo Marchesale, the palace of the Saggese family, once the great landowner of these parts. An archway to one side oleads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-storey stone houses with red-tile roofs.

FromOutliersby Malcolm Gladwell2009. Published by Hachette.