L'Oltrepò sul Financial Times

Un "articolone" del prestigioso Financial Times che parla dell'Oltrepò e lo paragona a una "piccola Toscana".
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An undiscovered countryside

By Faith Glasgow

About an hour’s drive from Milan, in northern Italy, an upside-down triangle of alluringly plump hills rises greenly from the plains south of the river Po. The area is called Oltrepo Pavese but the locals refer to it as “little Tuscany”.

In many ways, it’s not hard to see why. The hills are striated by neat rows of vineyards and crowned with mellow stone farmhouses, hamlets and medieval castles.

Fortunado, Zavattarello and Montesegale are quaint hilltop borghi, while the medieval town of Varzi and the spa village of Salice Terme both lie on the Staffora river, which flows along the western edge of the region on its way to the Po. Pavia, the capital of the province, an ancient town and home to one of the oldest universities in Europe, is 15 minutes’ drive across the river to the north. Though Oltrepo would be pushing its luck to claim the architectural or artistic heritage of the towns around Tuscany, it comes close .....

Dall'estero iniziano a guardarci, cerchiamo di non farci sfuggire questa occasione, rispettiamo e salvaguardiamo questo territorio irripetibile, valorizziamo le specificità e apriamoci all'accoglienza.