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Don’t Blame the Village: The Real Work of Regenerating Rural Italy Starts After the Dream

A reflection inspired by Cassandra Tresl’s article “Don’t Blame the Village”, published in Life in Italy on 26 June 2026, and by the very practical experience of working from Buriano...

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Matteo Cerri and ITS ITALY
Jun 29, 2026
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… a small village in Tuscany, where the beauty of place is inseparable from the patience, humility and responsibility required to engage with it properly.

There is a useful sentence at the heart of Cassandra Tresl ’s recent article, ‘Don’t Blame the Village’: the problem is not necessarily small-town Italy, but the fantasy people bring with them when they buy into it. …

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