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Extract from the Arezzo Travel Guides:
AREZZO
, 65km southeast of Florence, has a charming old quarter, unspoilt enough to catch the eye a few years back of local folk-hero and deliberate clown of Italian cinema
Roberto Benigni
. Many key scenes in his Oscar-winning
La Vita Bella
(Life Is Beautiful) were filmed in Arezzo, and strolling on its quiet streets is like a breath of fresh air after days spent doing battle with Florence's big-city grind.
Arezzo was a major Etruscan and Roman city, and was a prosperous independent republic in the Middle Ages, until, in 1289, its Ghibelline loyalties precipitated military defeat at t...
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