POPE LEAVES FOR 12-DAY VACATION IN NORTHERN ITALY

VATICAN CITY, JUL 9, 2001 (VIS) - At 10 this morning Pope John Paul left by car for Rome's Ciampino Airport where his plane left at 10:30 for northern Italy's Valle d'Aosta region. He arrived at 11:40 at the Saint-Christophe Airport in Aosta and was accompanied to the villa in Les Combes which will be his home until early evening of July 20.

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