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Autumn in Italy — When Chestnuts Reign

Autumn in Italy — When Chestnuts Reign

The aroma of wood-burning fires in the cool air . . . hillsides covered in yellow and orange . . . the sound of voices echoing through the woods as parents and children troop through the fallen leaves, collecting chestnuts…. this is October in Italy! We are in Licciana Nardi, a tiny hamlet in the Apuan Alps in the province of Lunigiana (northern Tuscany). This is the land of a hundred castles, where stones and turrets of bygone days seem…

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