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Twenty-odd years ago, my wife and son and I were lost in the Italian countryside somewhere between Rome and Venice (not a bad thing except we were low on gas) and we stumbled on a beautiful tiny town whose name was then lost. Until recently! I found some postcards my wife (now deceased) had kept a travel diary on, and she's recorded the name of the town. But I can't read it!

She wrote that we had gotten off the autostrada at Tivoli (which seems possible but I can't say for sure) and drove for quite a while through windy two-lane roads without seeing any towns until this little beauty.

Any help deciphering her handwriting? It looks like San Gregorino to me, but there's no town by that name. I will also say that in my memory, there wasn't a castle, just a town wall, but as I say it was twenty-odd years ago and anything is possible.

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San Gregorio da Sassola?

  • 10-15 km from Tivoli via narrow winding roads

  • Small town (population about 1500)

  • Appropriate name, if the "n" was a mistake

  • Site of Castello Brancaccio.

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Gas station AND Castle... Don't tell me it's your car too getting refueled... [San Gregorio da Sassola] enter image description here

(Image from Google Street View)

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