Bolgheri's famous cypress trees avenue at sunset. Scenic road in Maremma, Tuscany region, Italy.
"The tall straight cypresses in double row, a troop from San Guido down to Bolgheri ..." thus begins the famous poem "Before San Guido" by Giosuè Carducci, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906. The cypresses are those of one of the most famous and beautiful roads in Tuscany and Italy, the Viale of Bolgheri, a long straight boulevard of five kilometers that leads from San Guido on the Via Aurelia, to the village of Bolgheri.
The two rows of cypresses that line the road on both sides have over 2,500 trees that are over a hundred years old. Cypresses were planted from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, and today they reach considerable heights, well over 10 meters.
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