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A walled city in Tuscany clings to its ancient menuLUCCA, Italy : With its pink-hued medieval churches, tree-lined city walls and a famously excellent regional cuisine, Lucca seems the perfect Tuscan city. But that charm is precisely what has made it the latest battleground in a tug of war between the romantic Italy of the popular imagination ...
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To shelter its cuisine, Italian city bans foreign flavorsUntil recently, Italians overwhelmingly ate Italian food, but a decade or more of immigration has seen a surge of new foreign food eateries. Now, one city has declared that enough is enough. The walled, medieval bastion of Lucca, in the heart of Tuscany, wants no more of the kebab shops and ...
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Vatican MuseumsThe Director of the Vatican Museums, Mr. Antonio Paolucci, who welcomes the visitors to the present web site, hopes that this informative means may be a useful instrument of knowledge and access to the complex reality of these five hundred – year old art collections which are the destination of ...
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Portal:Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLocation of Italy in the EUItaly, officially the Italian Republic, is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The ...
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History of Tuscany - WikipediaTuscany is named after its pre-Roman inhabitants, the Etruscans. It was ruled by Rome for many centuries. In the Middle Ages, it saw many invasions, but in the Renaissance period it helped lead Europe back to civilisation. Later, it settled down as a grand duchy. It was conquered by Napoleonic ...
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Brunello di Montalcino - WikipediaaBrunello di Montalcino (brew NEL lo de mon tal CHEE no) is a red Italian wine produced in the vineyards surrounding the town of Montalcino located about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Florence in the Tuscany wine region. Brunello, roughly translated as "nice dark one" in the local dialect, is ...
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Val d'Orcia - WikipediaThe Val d’Orcia, or Valdorcia, is a region of Tuscany, central Italy, which extends from the hills south of Siena to Monte Amiata. It is characterised by gentle, carefully-cultivated hills occasionally broken by gullies and by picturesque towns and villages such as Pienza (rebuilt as an “ideal ...
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Pienza - WikipediaPienza, a town and commune in the province of Siena, in the Val d'Orcia in Tuscany (central Italy), between the towns of Montepulciano and Montalcino, is the "touchstone of Renaissance urbanism."[1]In 1996, UNESCO declared the town a World Heritage Site, and in 2004 the entire valley, the Val ...
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San Gimignano - WikipediaSan Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. It is mainly famous for its medieval architecture, especially its towers, which may be seen from several kilometers outside the town.The town also is known for the white wine, Vernaccia di ...
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Tuscany - WikipediaTuscany (Italian: Toscana) is a region in Italy. It has an area of 22,990 square kilometres (8,880 sq mi) and a population of about 3.6 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence. Tuscany is known for its landscapes and its artistic legacy. Six Tuscan localities have been UNESCO ...
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