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Guide to Pienza

We start our guide to Pienza with the fact that this little town is known as the “ideal city of the Renaissance”, the creation of the great humanist Enea Silvio Piccolomini who later became Pope Pius II. The town lies on the top of the hill in the middle of breathtaking valley of Orcia and […]

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Week’s Place: Unesco World Heritage Sites in Tuscany

Italy counts 47 UNESCO World Heritage Sites within its borders, the most of any country on the World Heritage List. Tuscany is a place filled with history – so much history that UNESCO has declared six Tuscan localities World Heritage Sites. The historic center of Florence, 1982 This area attests to Florence’s history as a […]

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