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Extract from the Montalcino Travel Guides:
MONTALCINO
is another classic Tuscan hill-town, 20km west of Pienza. Set within a full circuit of walls and watched over by a
rocca
, it looks tremendous from below - and from above, the surrounding countryside strewn with vineyards, orchards and olive groves is equally impressive. Montalcino produces a top-notch DOCG
wine
, Brunello di Montalcino, reckoned by many to be the finest in Italy, and is a quiet place, affluent in an unshowy way from its tourist trade. For a time in the fifteenth century, though, the town was of great symbolic importance: it was the last of the Sienese
comune
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read the whole Montalcino Travel Guides...
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