Nor could you hope for a more seductive mix of stony pomp and shady portico than Arezzo’s Piazza Grande. His wounded men were tended in the church of San Francesco beside. Helping with the wounded men in the church that day in 1849 was Garibaldi’s wife, Anita, six months pregnant and worn out with weeks of flight. Garibaldi’s men had to ford it, slipping between enemies approaching from both sides. Now an eccentric artistic family have transformed it into the sort of sanctuary where wounded heroes go to be cured by Elfin queens.

Source: The Guardian June 15, 2021 09:56 UTC