Example sentences for: tuscany

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  • Vestiges of dwellings survive — cabins on stilts in the frequently flooded Po valley, larger clay houses on the western marshlands of Tuscany, and Sardinia’s still visible domed dry-stone nuraghi.

  • At the end of the Via Rizzoli, the two leaning towers are all that remain of a whole forest of more than 200 medieval status-symbols — like those of San Gimignano in Tuscany (see page 101).

  • The result is a bewilderingly beautiful phantasmagoria of fountains, lakes, rock gardens, trees, and flowers: the Sunken Garden, with symmetrical Trees of Life and rockery of gentian, saxifrage, and Lebanon candytuft; the Rose Garden, at its best in July, boasting 150 varieties of hybrid tea and floribunda roses; the Japanese Gardens, with scarlet azaleas, Himalayan blue poppies, weeping larch, and pond with a couple of cranes to bring you good luck; and the dreamy Italian Garden, cypresses singing a song of Tuscany around a cruciform basin filled with water lilies, where once was Mr. and Mrs. Butchart’s tennis court.

  • For a fine view of the surrounding countryside, Tuscany at its most poetic, climb up to the ruins of the Rocca citadel, the highest point in town and a good picnic spot.

  • With perverse anti-insight, Hoffman has updated the play to a sunny, atmospherically untroubled Tuscany in the 19 th century and has filled his frames with scampering street urchins and matrons kneading dough.


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