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Situated on the River Mincio, between Verona and Bologna, Mantua is a wealthy living city with a Renaissance core as Fiona Cameron discovers.

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A 55-year-old Indian woman living in northern Italy has given birth to quadruplets after returning to India for fertility treatment.

If any other country in the world had a city like this, it would be signposted from hundreds of miles away. But in the land of Rome, Florence and Venice things are not that simple and Mantua is little known outside the circles of Renaissance buffs. Well, all this is about to change...