Arezzo, Italy Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

AREZZO , 65km southeast of Florence, has a charming old quarter, unspoilt enough to catch the eye a few years back of local folk-hero and deliberate clown of Italian cinema Roberto Benigni . Many key scenes in his Oscar-winning La Vita è Bella (Life is Beautiful) were filmed in Arezzo, and strolling on its quiet streets is like a breath of fresh air after days spent doing battle with Florence's big-city grind. Arezzo was a major Etruscan and Roman city, and was a prosperous independent republic in the Middle Ages, until, in 1289, its Ghibelline loyalties precipitated military defeat at the hands of Guelph … more »