It may sound a perverse idea … times are tight, so why not pack your bags and fly off to Italy. But the credit crunch and the pressure on tour operators, hotels and indeed whole regions which have had worse than expected summers, is yielding unexpected bargains for the traveller. As Autumn kicks in, now [...]
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The main reason to book a Montecatini Terme hotel is, of course, to take the waters. This spa town in Tuscany’s Pistoia province is first mentioned back in 716AD; in 1164 it was a free ‘comune’ but was then invaded by Lucca; in the fourteenth century its castle was besieged during the war between Lucca [...]
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