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Poppi Castle in Il Casentino, Tuscany, Italy July 22, 2009 With assistance from my cousin Marco Goretti Although I was born in the United States, my family has a long history amid the Tuscan hills of Italy. To the east of Florence running south to Arezzo is a wonderful valley where the Arno River finds it source and tr...
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Mulino of Pratovecchio, Il Casentino, Tuscany, Italy Once called Mulino del Barbo, this flour mill is known to be a thousand years old. There is evidence that the Romans may have had a mill here earlier. Why here? Well, it is on the banks of the Arno River high in the Casentino Valley where one finds the river’s sou...
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Ponte Buriano This medieval bridge spans the Arno River to the north of Arezzo along a road called the Strada di Sette Ponte (The Road of Seven Bridges). When Leonardo De Vinci was in the area making a map of the region he crossed this bridge many times. Some say that the bridge in the Mona Lisa is this bridge. With a...
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Florence With assistance from my cousin Marco Goretti of Poppi, Italy No matter how many times one sees it, when arriving and viewing the skyline of Florence it takes one’s breath away. The best place to see the city in panorama is from the Piazza Michaelangelo. Visible in this panorama are most of the famous landmar...
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May, 2009 Mysterious and haunting Cranberry Lake is located in a secluded area of Somerset County in southwestern Pennsylvania just off route 653. It is 112 acres and has standing timbers in the water and a small waterfall. There have been many Big Foot sightings in the area. Fishermen come to fish for large mouth bas...
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August 10, 2009 This fantastic hilltop town in central Tuscany is perched atop a mountain that views the entire Val di Chiana plain and portions of the Valdarno. No wonder men from all historic epochs have established settlements here. The earliest known occupants were the Etruscans, then the ancient Romans. The town, ...
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San Gimignano is a famous hill town in Tuscany noted for its medieval towers erected by various families for their own security. Today it is one of the most visited sites in Tuscany and in the summer is often overcrowded with tourists. I was one of them in the summer of 2009. This image is taken from a hillside with a ...
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Casa Colonica, Tuscany, Italy August 14, 2009 with assistance by my cousin Sergio Boschi of Quarata, Italy Tourists love to see and take pictures of these colonial homes all over Tuscany. Their soft beige stucco walls and extraordinary dull orange pantile roofs bask in fields of dull yellow wheat or luminous yellow sun...
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July 4, 2009 My family and I live less than an hour from the site where Flight 93 crashed in the fields of Somerset County, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. On that morning I was teaching a research class at a local college. On the Fourth of July of 2009 my family and I took a morning ride to see the site and the t...
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If it weren't for the John Deer tractor atop the small roof on the barn, this scene could be in any era. Look for the geese swimming in the water and basking in the sun. It is in the Laural Highlands along Route 130 in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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