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When I take the dog for a walk on Sunday mornings through the woods from Catagnana to Barga suddenly through a gap in the trees, there they are, the Apuan Alps stoically making their statement of beauty and wonder. Beauty and wonder is what our guests at Art Toscana Art Vacations in Italy say when they take the same walk and see the mountain. At Val di Pozza paintings of the mountain hang on the walls, there are drawings of the mountain in the artist’s studio and the mountain creeps into the sketch books of our painters at Art Toscana Painting Holidays in Italy. Yes, you can’t get away from the mountain, not that you would want to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I take the dog for a walk on Sunday mornings through the woods from Catagnana to Barga suddenly through a gap in the trees, there they are, the Apuan Alps stoically making their statement of beauty and wonder. Beauty and wonder is what our guests at Art Toscana Art Vacations in Italy say when<\/p>\n

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