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Extract from the Cortona Travel Guides:
Travelling south from Arezzo you enter the
Valdichiana
, reclaimed swampland that is now prosperous cattle country, producing the much-prized Florentine
bistecca
. From the valley floor a long road winds up through terraces of vines and olives to the hill-town of
CORTONA
, 20km south of Arezzo, from whose heights you can see Lago Trasimeno. A scattering of Etruscan tombs aside, the steep streets are dominated by medieval architecture that claws its way around a knife-edge ridge, with barely a patch of level ground anywhere. Traffic is restricted, which accentuates the sense of hilltop isolation - alth...
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