Vanilla Beans & Brodo
Subtitle: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: July 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780743234610
Subjects: Montalcino (Italy); Travel - Foreign; Italy; Essays & Travelogues; Travel; Social life and customs; Montalcino; Travel / Europe / Italy; Dusi, Isabella; Europe - Italy; 20th century; Description And Travel; Homes and haunts
First sentence: The stone walls encircling Montalcino, first completed in the year 1110, form a defensive band around the village like a stone circle pushed down over the crown of the irregular-shaped hill.