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Pietrasanta | Old Money, Long Afternoons

The capital of Versilia. Where art is the lifestyle.

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Peter Benei
Apr 22, 2026
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The first town we lived in was up in the mountains, a hundred people above a curve in the road, a church, a grocer who opened for four hours a day twice a week and closed if it rained, and for the first few weeks we had all of it, the stone houses and the old men on the benches and the kind of silence you read about in books, and the wanting and the hav…

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