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Arezzo (ärĕt`tsō), city (1991 pop. 91,626), capital of Arezzo prov., Tuscany, central Italy. It is an agricultural trade center and has machine, clothing, gold, and jewelry industries. Arezzo was an Etruscan town, later became a Roman military station and colony, and was made (11th cent.) a free commune. Siding with the Ghibellines, it was defeated (1289) at Campaldino by Florence, to which it passed definitively in 1384. In Roman times the famous red-clay Arretine vases were made there. Arezzo was a center of learning and the arts in the Middle Ages; Guido d'Arezzo, Petrarch, Aretino, and Vasari were born there. The city retains much of its medieval character. Noteworthy buildings include the Gothic cathedral (1286–1510); the Gothic Church of San Francesco (14th cent.), with frescoes of the Legend of the Holy Cross executed (1452–66) by Piero della Francesca; the Romanesque Church of Santa Maria della Pieve (1330); Bruni Palace (15th cent.), which now houses an art gallery and museum; and Vasari's mansion (decorated by Vasari in 1540).
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No references found | has toyed with the idea of chucking it all and embracing the rural Tuscan lifestyle, made of simple living in touch with nature Those that have traveled to Tuscany usually have an even stronger drive to pursue this dream who visited Arezzo, Siena, Florence, Cortona and other beautiful Tuscan cities and countries knows that these places are able to leave people breathless, so is no surprise that they want to come back at any cost Almost anyone who has seen the film or read the book ? However tests at the San Donato hospital in his home town of Arezzo, in Tuscany, found that he actually had leukaemia. To bring a piece of Sundance to Cortona that seems to have been the aim of Robert Redford, who in August visited the town in the province of Arezzo in order to take part, with a poem recital, at the Tuscan Sun Festival. |
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