A 67-year-old American man from Connecticut fell to his death from on top of a city wall in Pienza on Sunday, June 12. It has been ascertained that he had a little to much to drink at dinner with his wife in the Renaissance town. He was rushed to a hospital in Montepulciano, but did not make it. To read more in Italian, visit Florence’s La Repubblica news site.
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