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 | | The valley, located slightly more than 100 kilometers to the northeast of Milan, in the province of Sondrio, is large, green and lush, dotted with many monuments, and is dominated by mountains that are truly "tall and terrible," but they have made the inhabitants' fortunes, since they attract innumerable tourists in winter. |
 | | The valley belonged to Rhetia, a vast province that included, in addition to the Valtellina, the canton of the Grisons, the Verona district, the valley of the Adige and part of Austria. |
 | | And its wines were mentioned by the greatest Latin authors, including Pliny, Cato the Elder, Martial and Virgil in his "Georgics." Viticultural continued to flourish in succeeding centuries. |
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