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Our Tuscan Retreat at La Pieve Marsina

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August 23rd 2016
Our Tuscan Retreat at La Pieve Marsina As I am starting to type this article, laying with my computer on an antique pink quilt thrown on a wrought iron bed, a swallow flies into my bedroom at La Pieve Marsina, a Tuscan retreat in the middle of the Chianti hills. She greets me cheerfully with a few, rapid wing beats before shooting out of the window, gliding briskly/s ... read more

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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