One of the sloping streets

Montepulciano

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October 6th 2018
06 October 2018 Montepulciano is well known for producing Vino Nobile wine and is built on a sloping ridge. In dull, cold and showery weather we left the camperstop to visit the town. Fortunately, there turned out to be two lifts which deposited us on the ridge and then, on the advice of the tourist office, we used a little orange shuttle bus which took us up the steep narrow streets to ... read more

Europe » Italy

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more