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Fiesole & Florence hills

Welcome to Fiesole, the mother of Florence. This is how the Florentine always think about Fiesole.It would have been impossible to have Florence  where it is laying now without the Etruscan living up in this beautiful little village nested between 2 hill peaks.

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