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The afternoon light is pure gold when you arrive, filtered through air that tastes of salt and pine and the particular sweetness that comes from flowers growing in abundance, from herbs warming in the sun, from the Mediterranean itself, that ancient sea that has witnessed so much of human history, that connects three continents, that has been crossed and recrossed by every civilization that has risen and fallen around its shores.

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The afternoon light is softening when you arrive, filtered through snow clouds that hang low over the valley, creating a luminous gray-white sky that makes everything below seem to glow, as if the snow itself is generating light rather than reflecting it. The air is cold and clean, so cold that each breath you take creates a visible cloud of vapor, so clean that it seems to have traveled over vast distances of emptiness, picking up nothing but the scent of pine and snow and the mineral freshness of mountain air.

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The afternoon light is softening when you pass through the ancient wooden door, its surface dark with centuries of hands pushing it open, its iron hinges worn smooth by the passage of countless scholars and students and seekers who have entered this space before you, each one seeking something—knowledge or solitude or simply a quiet place to read, to think, to be.