Pistoia’s Cathedral of San Zeno with its 13th century crucifix painted by the Florentine artist Coppo di Marcovaldo, Pisa’s magnificent Piazza dei Miracoli with its incredible Leaning Tower: just a few of the many manmade wonders conserved within Tuscany’s art cities.
Categories: Itinerary
Posted by ItalyTraveller - January 5th, 2010
A trip to Tuscany’s Val d’Orcia to taste the excellent wine produced on the hills of Montalcino; stroll along the medieval lanes of San Quirico d’Orcia; and admire the renaissance treasures of Pienza, birth town of Pope Pius II.
Categories: Itinerary
Posted by ItalyTraveller - October 7th, 2009
Nobody should consider their vacation in Tuscany complete without having first toured the Crete Senesi: five hundred square kilometers of magnificent rolling hillside and tiny valleys which extend from Siena all the way to Mount Amiata.
Categories: Itinerary
Posted by ItalyTraveller - September 23rd, 2009
A journey across a fascinating landscape, walking along the ancient roads cut out of the porous rock of Pitigliano, exploring Tuscany’s ancient Etruscan burial grounds and visiting the tuff cities which still cling, miraculously, to the gradually eroding cliffs of Tuscia viterbese
Categories: Experience
Posted by ItalyTraveller - September 23rd, 2009