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In 2019 Carolyn McPherson said: "My family lived in
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in the village. In 1955--10 years after the end of WWII--it was still possible to find large fragments of burned maps lying in the olive groves below the
Gamberaia. We visited the famous gardens once; most of the trees and shrubs were dead, and the statuary broken".
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and his wife stayed at the Villa
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