1. Quarantined at Ponte Centino

    · Ponte Centino, Tuscany–Lazio border, Italy

    Quarantined at Ponte Centino
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    Plague controls forced Galileo to remain for more than two weeks at the frontier between Tuscany and the Papal States before he could continue to Rome. The coordinate is a representative point near the historic Centeno/Ponte Centino frontier locality; the exact quarantine lodging is uncertain.

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