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Colle di Val d'Elsa, in brief.

Crystal glass production, hilltop old town.

A two-tiered town in the Val d'Elsa, its upper borgo perched on a ridge above the modern lower town.

Colle is the capital of Italian crystal, where furnaces have been blowing fine lead glass for generations.

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