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The Chiorri Winemakers Company is a vineyard under family management, which with special care from their very own vines, produces D.O.C. Colli Perugini and IGT dell'Umbria white, red and rosè wines. The family, together with the help of experienced workers,...
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Farmhouse San Rocco, country holiday home in Umbria, Todi Summer holidays in Umbria, in Todi at Tenuta San Rocco Tenuta San Rocco has the pleasure to offer special conditions for accomodations in his flats or " casolari" You may test the tipical foods...
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The first traces of Bisol family in the heart of the Prosecco D.O.C area date to the 16th century and are contained in a census carried out for fiscal reasons by the aristocratic Venetian family Da Pola, who were landowners of the leading the very prestigious...
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In 1964, Alibrando Dei, Maria Caterina's grandfather, bought the first part of the entire estate : Bossona. This vineyard is gorgeous for exposition and kind of soil, a sort of amphitheater always where the wind blows with a certain constancy. And her...
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Poggio al Casone is a charming resort located in a private wine farm surrounded by 40 hectares of organic vineyards. An ancient villa and two independent cottages have been meticulously renovated offering now self-catering apartments available for holidays....
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Madonna delle Grazie Hermitage
Avola's ruins were gloomy and buried in loneliness, as the famous French traveller Jean Houel, who visited them, asserted. Monk Sebastiano Li Gioi, in order to revitalize and give sacredness to that place, decided to built the hermitage on the hill. The reconstruction work tookplace in 1729. Initially used to accomodate the novices, it later became a place for contemplation and prayer. The dormitory was then named "Eremo Madooan delle Grazie" for finding under a great rock a handbell and a hard low-relief showing the Graces' Virgin. In 1896 in this site was built a votive aedicula. The niche looks onto the hairpin turns going from Avola Antica to Avola where, in the second half of the XX century, it used to take place "Coppa Belmonte" uphill car races.
(source: Avola, la città esagonale)