blog.italytraveller.com » Itinerary of Tuscany http://blog.italytraveller.com Just another Blogs Capri Online site Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:19:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tuscan Art Cities http://blog.italytraveller.com/2010/01/05/tuscan-art-cities/ http://blog.italytraveller.com/2010/01/05/tuscan-art-cities/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:58:48 +0000 italytraveller.com http://blog.italytraveller.com/en/?p=572 Tuscan Art Cities

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.

]]> http://blog.italytraveller.com/2010/01/05/tuscan-art-cities/feed/ 0 Journey in to the heart of Val d’Orcia http://blog.italytraveller.com/2009/10/07/journey-in-to-the-heart-of-val-d-orcia/ http://blog.italytraveller.com/2009/10/07/journey-in-to-the-heart-of-val-d-orcia/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:16:50 +0000 italytraveller.com http://blog.italytraveller.com/en/?p=352 Val d'Orcia - Tuscany

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.

]]> http://blog.italytraveller.com/2009/10/07/journey-in-to-the-heart-of-val-d-orcia/feed/ 0 The Palio of Siena, wine, and the Crete Senesi http://blog.italytraveller.com/2009/09/23/the-palio-of-siena-wine-and-the-crete-senesi/ http://blog.italytraveller.com/2009/09/23/the-palio-of-siena-wine-and-the-crete-senesi/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:52:37 +0000 italytraveller.com http://blog.italytraveller.com/en/?p=313

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.

]]> http://blog.italytraveller.com/2009/09/23/the-palio-of-siena-wine-and-the-crete-senesi/feed/ 0 Tuff cities of Tuscany and Lazio http://blog.italytraveller.com/2009/09/23/tuff-cities-of-tuscany-and-lazio/ http://blog.italytraveller.com/2009/09/23/tuff-cities-of-tuscany-and-lazio/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:17:29 +0000 italytraveller.com http://blog.italytraveller.com/en/?p=311 Itinerary in Tuscany and Lazio

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

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