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Cortona For The Tuscan Food And Wine Lover

The first thing I think of when Italy comes to mind is food – well, food and wine. Our most recent trip to Cortona, Italy, proved to be more wonderful and delicious than I could have ever imagined. We stayed less than five minutes from the main village at the magnificent Villa Marsili. The close proximity to the rustic Italian village proved to be an advantage to our appetites, if a disadvantage to our waistlines.

6 Literary Spots in Rome

Rome’s influence on literature has been perennial. From the time of Ovid and Virgil to the Anglo-Saxon influx of writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne and young John Keats, all the way up to the more recent time of Alberto Moravia and Carlo Emilio Gadda, Rome has captured the imagination and thoughts of many great writers.