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Michelle Franks

In Urbino you can observe all walks of life: the old, the young, the college students and even some Italian crazies. But the depth of this city is what gives Urbino its charm and what has allowed us to be fully submerged in Italian culture these past four weeks. You can’t find an experience like this anywhere else.

Stories by Michelle Franks

  • Maria Carobini, 69, spends her days tending to the delicate grains growing in the small orchard of the Station School, a school that just four years ago she was fighting to save. That fight was a community-wide revolution.

    Saving the Station School

    By Michelle Franks
    Maria Carobini, 69, spends her days tending to the delicate grains growing in the small orchard of the Station School, a school that just four years ago she was fighting to save. That fight was a community-wide revolution.

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