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introduction
Cortona is built on a buttress of Monte Sant Egidio and is surrounded by a massive, worm by centuries of wind and weather, in which opens the ancient city gates to receive the various roads winding up from the palin beneath. The read from the plain to the city wind through terraced olive grove divided bu stone walls, with fine villas surrounded by pines, ilexes and cypresses, farms, monasteries and monumental churches. Looking from the top of the finest and widest views in Italy, the wide fertile plain of the Val Chiana, with the mountain and Monte Cetona, and the great expanse of Lake Trasimeno |
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