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Wine Vacation: Sleeping in a Castle in the Prosecco Hills — CastelBrando, Veneto

Let me tell you something about the Prosecco hills that most travel blogs don’t think to mention. You can sleep inside them. Not in a tent. Not in a rustic farmhouse with questionable plumbing and a charming smell. I mean inside an actual medieval castle, two thousand years old, sitting... The post Wine Vacation: Sleeping in a Castle in the Prosecco Hills — CastelBrando, Veneto appeared first on The Finest Italian Wine .

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