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Front gate

Here is the entrance to 'Curtizi Patrizi'. A gated community in Celino San Marco, Italy (past San Pietro Vernotico  on the way to Lecce). This is where Kim and I lived from '86-'89 (Contrada Bosco #13, Apt A. Celino S. Marco)).

The Powers' Estate, as the community was known, was owned by Albano Carrisi a famous Italian popstar, (aka Al Bano) and the wife he married in 1970, Romina Power (the daughter of the famous movie actor Tyrone Power and Linda Christian). The estate was huge, there were something like thirty villas and apartments here. Albano and Romina rented the apartments (and Villas) to American Servicemen and their families. It was a fantastic place to live. A little American community nestled in the arms of pastoral southern Italy. Photo taken May of '86.