Byways in southern Tuscany . 214. 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 crow
Byways in southern Tuscany . 214. 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
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