Byways in southern Tuscany . Badia a Spineta CHAPTER XIII Cetona—Badia a Spineta—San Giovanni dAsso-montefollonico—montisi ROM Sarteano it is about four miles toCetona, nor to my thinking can there befound a town more perfect in type, moreexquisitely framed in country lovelinessthan this, with its castle tower risingabove secular trees, its houses in subor-dinate ranks below, its neighboring villagarden all spired with cypresses, whilethe ground, dropping from it in suc-cessive terraces, is plumed with ohves, verdant with grain,and broken by little settlements of conical crowns th
Byways in southern Tuscany . Badia a Spineta CHAPTER XIII Cetona—Badia a Spineta—San Giovanni dAsso-montefollonico—montisi ROM Sarteano it is about four miles toCetona, nor to my thinking can there befound a town more perfect in type, moreexquisitely framed in country lovelinessthan this, with its castle tower risingabove secular trees, its houses in subor-dinate ranks below, its neighboring villagarden all spired with cypresses, whilethe ground, dropping from it in suc-cessive terraces, is plumed with ohves, verdant with grain,and broken by little settlements of conical crowns the top of its own hill while higher mountainsform a wall behind it. The key of the castle may be hadin the piazza and one finds there is little left of it beyondthe tower with its seven-foot walls, but you are allowed 215. BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY to climb it to the top if you like, passing many rooms onits successive floors, unfurnished but with ceilings flaunt-ing a new and highly varnished Pompeian is the ever-beautiful prospect from the roof, afterviewing which you hurry down to enjoy the rugged ex-terior so happily draped with vines and caressed by noblecypresses and pines and where a deeply shadowed flightof steps leads down to a pretty little open-air tiers of seats are nearly covered with sod but the pit,the stage, and the prompters niche are still quite perfectand also the grand private box for the family importantlyopening from an upper terrace. If this beautiful valley beguiles us to prolong the ex-ploration of it, we can continue in the southerly directionand presently come to Le Piazze, a small village abovewhich stands a castle in the clouds, Fighine—who could
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