Chianti

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CIAO ADRIANO

8 DAYS IN TUSCANY AND UMBRIA

THE 2007 DOM PARADOX A TOUR FOR NICK (DOM P'S SON) AND JACUI

October / November 2007

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DAY FOUR

Saturday 3 November - A drive around Chianti

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Castellina market & walkabout (including the Torre).

Chianti's vineyards, hills, towns and churches.

San Giusto in Sálcio, Radda, Volpaia, drive west along the ridge road (Vignamaggio, the mansion where the Mona Lisa was maybe born, in a valley on the right), around Panzano (at the centre of the ancient caldera), Rignana (farm house restaurant), around Badia a Passignano (Vallombrosan Abbey), and lastly the Val d’Elsa (the sweeping Valley of the River Elsa) from the San Donato ridge.

Very special thanks as always to Gregory Page and the girls at Alfaimmobiliare, real estate agents straordinario in Castellina in Chianti, San Gimignano and Lucca (Tuscany) and Orvieto (Umbria), for their generous help and friendship during many happy stays in Castellina.

Looking down on the little church of San Giusto in Sálcio, just south of Radda-in-Chianti

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East of Panzano

Vignamaggio - where the model for the Mona Lisa was born

Antinori vines

Badia a Passignano - Vallombrosan Monastery

End of the Chianti tour - the Val d'Elsa

Castellina is located near the "i" of "Chianti"

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