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A Home in Italy For $11,000
Date: 04/26/200421 Via Monte Nero, Alberobello...my own little Italian hobbit-hole.
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A Home in Italy For $11,000
Date: 04/26/2004"Italy is full of picturesque countryside, but I've never seen anywhere quite as strange or beautiful as the Itria Valley in the Apulia region..."
Read OnA Florentine Proposal
Date: 04/14/2004The 'Cradle of the Renaissance' opens before us--in the foreground is the Arno River and the Ponte Vecchio, the oldest bridge and the only one here not destroyed during World War II…
Read OnEaster in Florence
Date: 04/12/2004A friend had warned against trying to get into Il Duomo for Sunday morning mass...
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Vespas and Art
Date: 04/10/2004"Even the Germans respected Florence. During World War II, they severely restricted bombing of this city. Some buildings on either side of the Ponte Vecchio were destroyed. Otherwise, most of its treasures were preserved..."
Read OnTax-free Since 1805
Date: 02/19/2004A small Alpine village in northern Italy, Livigno sits in a valley; the Swiss border to the north, Milan to the southwest, and, at all other points on the compass, an impassable mountain range.
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Tax-free Since 1805
Date: 02/19/2004"A small Alpine village in northern Italy, Livigno sits in a valley; theSwiss border to the north, Milan to the southwest, and, at allother points on the compass, an impassable mountain range..."
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