San Gimignano, Montalcino and Pienza It had been five years since my last trip to Southern Tuscany and in 2021 I was anxious to see all my favorite places again. But it seemed like a case of you can’t go home again, at least with respect to Montalcino and Pienza. So I’ll start with San […]
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Cathedrals and Abbeys
Prologue I dedicate this article to my mother, Shirley Marguerite McNeil Wright, 1920 to 2009, who lived by the principle of leaving the world a better place. She was a staunch Methodist but loved going to the St. Cecilia Cathedral flower show (Omaha, NE). I went this past January 2017 for the first time since […]
Read MoreMontalcino and Southern Tuscany
I first saw Montalcino from the seat of a bike grinding up the switchbacks from the valley below, on the road from Buonconvento. I don’t know about the rest of our group but I was sweating and dying. But when we got to the town and sat in a little park or open space along […]
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