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Marina di Pietrasanta | A Weekend in May

Saturday market, Sunday bike, and the marina between Forte dei Marmi and Lido di Camaiore

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Peter Benei
Apr 27, 2026
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The first cornetto on a Saturday morning in May is the one filled with apple, and I eat it dipped into a long coffee at the Margherita while the market two streets away begins its slow assembly under the plane trees of Piazza Villeparisis. The pastry has a coat of sugar on top of the sugar already inside it, and Sophia, sitting across from me with a cap…

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