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Casoli | The Village That Decided to Be Interesting

A mountain commune above Camaiore in the Apuan Alps, and the case for small places doing something

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Peter Benei
Apr 21, 2026
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I grew up in a village in Hungary with a handful of streets, and I know what small looks like, and I know the specific silence of a place where nothing has happened for a long time and nothing is planned to, so when I tell you Casoli has maybe five streets, that you can walk all of them in under an hour, and that most of the houses belong to people who …

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