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San Gimignano, Italy: Towering Hill Town

San Gimignano, with its distinctive skyline, stands like a medieval mirage on its hilltop. With walls built in the 13th century and 12 surviving to...

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  Orvieto, Italy: Signorelli's Masterpiece

  Famous for its colorful ceramics and gleaming cathedral, Orvieto, Umbria's grand hill town, sits majestically high above the valley floor on a big ...

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  Montepulciano, Italy: Tuscan Dolce Vita

  Montepulciano welcomes visitors with views, villas, and vino. Streets are lined with noble palazzos because Florentine nobility favored Montepulcia...

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  Milan, Italy and Lake Como

  After you've taken in the city's renaissance art treasures, people-watch in Milan's high-fashion shopping zone to see Italy's 21st century prosperi...

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Milan, Italy: Artful Cemetery

While there are many evocative cemeteries in Europe, this one, with its emotional portrayals of the departed and their heavenly escorts in the melo...

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  Milan, Italy: Leonardo da Vinci

  Epitome of Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci spent some of his most productive years in Milan, enjoying the patronage of the Sforza family. In ...

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  Cortona, Italy: Rustic and Romantic

  Cortona has a history that goes back 2500 years to Etruscan times. It grew to its present size between the 13th and 15th centuries, when it was a c...

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  Italy's Great Hill Towns

  When Italy erupted in chaos after the fall of Rome, people moved to the high ground to escape the marauding barbarians of that dark age. Over time,...

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