1.   Aglianico, an excellent red grape, thrives in Campania but can be found all over the Italian boot.

2.   Peculiar to the Murge, this dry, hilly sector of Puglia, the southeast heel of the Italian boot, they are peculiar indeed.

3.   Salice is one of the best wines from the Salento peninsula, the heel of the Italian boot.

4.   Romantics have described the Italian boot as one large vineyard, from the Alto Adige to the southern coast of Sicily.

5.   The Fifth and British Eighth Armies are fighting side by side up the Italian boot against stiff German resistance.

6.   These are just a few of the hundreds of wines produced in the southernmost reaches of the Italian boot.

7.   U.S. forces also are only two miles away from the port city of Livorno on the west coast of the Italian boot.

8.   Authorities on a routine check discovered the latest arrivals on beaches near Brindisi, at the heel of the Italian boot.

9.   Immigration authorities on Tuesday reported a surge of expulsion orders in Puglia, the heel of the Italian boot, in April and the first week of May.

10.   The Italian coast guard intercepted the ship, which became stuck in shallow water near the Calabrian coastline in the toe of the Italian boot.