Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe

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Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe - A British Love Affair

Francesco da Mosto

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Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe: Episode 2: A British Love Affair

A British Love Affair

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Francesco learns how to be a courtier in Urbino and goes grape harvesting in Chianti.

While visiting Tuscany and Umbria, Francesco da Mosto learns how to be the perfect courtier in Urbino and goes grape harvesting in Chianti.

Francesco da Mosto enters Tuscany and Umbria to look at the long love affair that Britain has had with the area. He learns how to be the perfect courtier in Urbino, goes grape harvesting in Chianti, discovers the romantic inspiration at the heart of Puccini's operas, travels to Assisi to find out why he was named after St Francis and takes Dame Maggie Smith on a sightseeing tour of Florence.

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Francesco da Mosto travels the length and breadth of Italy.

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