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Setting up house in Montepulciano

Italians have a thing about beautiful things.  From hand-blown glassware from Murano, to Ferrari’s race-car power and beauty, Italy is known and appreciated the world over for its eye on design and skill in craftsmanship.Even Italy’s historic rival recently acknowledged…

Epidurals and GPSs

For Mother's Day, our reader Silvana Saccomani sent us this cute story about epidurals and gps on the road for Montepulciano. Good reading! I’ve never given childbirth. Never experienced the screaming pains of labour. And because of that absence I’ve spent…

La Golpe e il Lupo

Una novella della tradizione contadina raccontata da Lucia Tremiti. Nei suoi libri sono raccolte vecchie novelle nei quali l’autrice fa uso di antichi termini, filastrocche, proverbi e modi di dire. A tale from the peasant tradition, narrated by Lucia Tremiti.…
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