Word: grosseto
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...Tuscany. There isn't much to tempt travelers to break their journeys; no major art galleries or unmissable architecture, just some Etruscan ruins, a pretty coastal village called Castiglione della Pescaia where locals reel in coach tours as plentifully as fish, and the resistable charms of the city of Grosseto. But one traveler was seduced into stopping and putting down new roots in the sandy soil nearby. Alain Ducasse, the first chef ever to win three Michelin stars for two restaurants simultaneously, followed an avenue of cypress and Tuscan pines through vineyards and olive groves and found...
...sources of steam. Borrowing from the most recent oil and gas drilling methods, the geologists study mineral composition and seismic activity to be better able to predict where the untapped wells are located. Still, searching underground is painstaking work. But though this one-hectare clearing in the Grosseto province has so far come up empty, the Enel team is confident from the geological findings that they are about to hit pay dirt. The other key advances are aimed above ground. Local opposition to geothermal projects in Tuscany is growing because the tourism industry is booming, and property owners have begun...