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`` It is not far from here , '' she explained , `` it is the view I spoke of before . Just a little further up the hill you will see a flat gray rock , covered with blue gentians . No one knows how they grow -- they are always there , blooming in summer and winter . But it is said that one of God 's own great angels comes once in every month at midnight to bless the Monte Vergine , and that he stands on that rock . And of course wherever the angels tread there are flowers , and no storm can destroy them -- not even an avalanche . That is why the people call it the Punto d'Angelo . It will please you to see it , eccellenza -- it is but a walk of a little ten minutes . ''