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Last Updated: Aug 17th, 2009 - 19:02:51 |
Queen star Dame Helen Mirren has bought a 16th century Italian castle.
The Oscar-winning actress and her husband director Taylor Hackford bought an estate in Tiggiano, in the province of Lecce in southern Italy, for £690,000.
The new holiday home is situated half-a-mile from the Mediterranean and is surrounded by high fortified walls and its own vineyard.
Already, Dame Helen has been meeting the locals, and a local baker even presented the actress with a cake decorated with a picture of herself in the Queen.
The nearby city of Lecce is something of a hidden gem tucked away in the heel of Italy south of Brindisi.
In Italy the city is known as La Firenze del Sud, or The Florence of South, because of its wealth of baroque architecture.
Its cathedral, or duomo, was originally built in 1144, although restored in 1670, and is one of the most important in Italy.
The city also has a number of sites dating back to the 2nd century AD, when Emperor Hadrian established an amphitheatre and moved the city 3km north.
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