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Aug 2010
38m 22s

AT#242 - Day Trips from Florence, Italy

CHRIS CHRISTENSEN
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The Amateur Traveler talks to Italophile Ira Bernstein who returns to the show to talk about day trips in Tuscany that you can take from Florence. We talk about visiting the walled city of Siena and its famous bareback horse race the palio, viewing the many towers of San Gimignano, climbing the leaning tower of Pisa (after you take the obligatory picture of ... Show More
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