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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Helen Coffey

Italian locals outraged after tourists put a stop to bell that helps them sleep

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Locals in an Italian town have complained that they can’t sleep after the bells of their historic clock tower were silenced at tourists’ request.

The Unesco-listed town of Pienza in Tuscany is famed for its 15th-century buildings, such as the Pienza Cathedral and Piccolomini Palace, Pope Pius II’s summer residence, as well as being used as a backdrop in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet.

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