Oropa is 1100 m high, in the province of Biella (Piemonte - Italy).
In a habitat of big stones, grass and a small stream with water ponds, I saw two lizards that were for me unusual and not so typical for Podarcis muralis.
The pictures are awful, and a friend of mine, who has seen them with cell phone/whatsapp, said to me they are common Podarcis muralis because of the dark stripes on the flanks and the beige dorsum: but I'm not convinced of this, because I've seen pictures of Z.vivipara on the web with the same colours of my specimens.
I think they could be Z.vivipara for the following reasons (I've seen rather well the two specimens, and spotted only for a fraction of second other 1-2 lizards in the same habitat):
- wet mountain habitat not so typical for P.muralis;
- colour and markings were not so typical for the P.muralis I usually see;
- I had the impression they had "keeled" dorsal scales;
- I had the impression head shape was different (more rounded and less flat) than in P.muralis;
- the tail (particularly of the first small specimen) was incredibly long and fat for a P.muralis: I've never observed a tail like that in a muralis.
Here are the (awful) pictures: