This flat is a jewel. It sits high above the Cortona skyline, with sweeping views of the Val di Chiana on one side and a unique outlook onto everybody's weddings on the other. It is cosy, friendly, just large enough to accommodate us and it shines with light on three sides. It draws you like a diamond, but its about to be abandoned... As the heaven's open, for the third winter running, we dive for the buckets and move the umbrella round the bed. Piazza Baldelli, Palazzo Baldelli, where noble families lived, where the first stones were set by the Greeks, where the Romans and Etruscans played, is disintegrating. Mold is taking over. The water is rising and we will have to get out before we sink.
Our bedroom / swimming pool.
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