60. Garfagnana - undiscovered Tuscany
Untold Italy travel podcast
Katy Clarke
4.6 • 659 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Explore Tuscany beyond Florence and surrounds and you'll discover areas rich with local culture and cuisine and interesting landscapes. Today we're headed to the Garfagnana hills that are rugged and covered in chestnut trees in contrast to the vine-covered regions of Chianti and Val D'Orcia.
The Garfagnana is close to one of our favorite cities Lucca and also the northern Tuscan coast. It's an interesting place to explore and we'll find out some of its secrets from our guest Buzz McCarthy who has lived there for many years.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you're listening to episode number 60. |
| 0:11.5 | Chau and benvenalty to Untold Italy. I'm Josie. And I'm Katie and we're here to help you plan |
| 0:17.1 | your trip to Italy. Between us, we have many years of travel experience and we want to help |
| 0:22.1 | you uncover your own, as yet untold stories and adventures in Italy. Each episode, you'll hear |
| 0:27.8 | practical advice, tips and ideas to help you plan your own trips to the magical land of |
| 0:32.3 | history, stunning landscapes and a whole lot of pasta. We'll have interviews from experts and focus on local destinations |
| 0:39.0 | and frequently ask questions about travel in Italy. Thanks for listening and make sure to |
| 0:44.2 | subscribe to our show. Now let's get started on your regular dose of Bala Italia. Chia Amici, I'm Katie and welcome to this week's Untold Italy episode where we are taking another |
| 1:05.6 | trip to Tuscany. |
| 1:07.4 | If you heard our recent episode about the Kianti region, then you'll know that Tuscany is a very |
| 1:12.9 | big area and that talking about it as a whole really does it a little bit of a disservice. |
| 1:19.3 | Tuscany stretches from Carrara, which is famous for marble, just below Las Petsia and the Cinque Terre |
| 1:26.2 | in Liguria in the north, and to the seaside town of |
| 1:29.8 | Otobelo in the south. In fact, Tuscany has a long stretch of coastline that is largely unknown |
| 1:35.7 | by visitors from outside the European continent. But on this episode, we're taking to the hills. |
| 1:42.0 | And while Tuscany is known for rolling green hills and hills towns, |
| 1:45.9 | this time we are exploring the hills of northwest Tuscany in the area known as Gaffaniana, |
| 1:51.3 | which is north of the charming city of Luka, which I've talked about quite a bit on previous episodes. |
| 1:57.2 | The hills of this region are very different to those in Kianti and the Valdorsha, |
| 2:01.5 | but I'll let our guests tell you all about that. |
| 2:04.6 | Buzz McCarthy is a world traveller, author and has a PhD of psychoneurology. |
| 2:09.6 | A fellow Melbournean, just like Josie and I, |
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