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• Tuscany Wine Guide
• Vitigliano – a unique boutique hotel and spa experience in Tuscany
• The Vasari Corridor in Florence, then and now
• See the Ligurian villages known as the Cinque Terre from your vacation base in Tuscany
• Tuscan terracotta olive oil jars – orci
• Strada Bianca in Umbria, the “green heart” of Italy
• The Chianti hamlet of San Leolino in Tuscany, Italy
• Tuscan castles – fortresses, walled hamlets, fortified abbeys and towers in Tuscany
• Della Robbia Madonna in the Church of San Michele in Volterra
• Spaltenna, the castle and the parish church near Gaiole in Chianti
• Certaldo Alto, hometown of Boccaccio
• Best place to stay as a base to explore Tuscany
• Abbey of Sant’Antimo near Montalcino where you can hear Gregorian chant
• Tuscan folk festivals and historical re-enactments
• Villa Vignamaggio – NOT where Mona Lisa was born!
• Castello di Brolio, home of modern Chianti Classico wines
• A Tuscan farmhouse – the beauty of a Tuscan casa colonica
• Europe’s most affordable vacation destination could be Tuscany
• Butteri, the cowboys of the coastal Maremma plains of Tuscany
• Greve in Chianti becomes a flower and shrub market for the Festa dei Fiori
• Piazza Matteotti, the main piazza of Greve in Chianti, Tuscany
• The Cortona farmhouse of Frances Mayes and “Under the Tuscan Sun”
• The garden of Villa La Foce, created by Cecil Pinsent for Iris Origo
• Church of San Miniato al Monte, above Florence in Tuscany, Italy
• San Miniato in Tuscany, location of a great truffle fair during November
• The duomo of Orvieto, one of the great buildings of the world
• Big sky country – the Val d’Orcia
• Hermitage of Montesiepi near San Galgano in the Val di Merse, Tuscany
• Villa Medici at Fiesole, the first true classic Renaissance villa in Tuscany, Italy
• Roman bridge of Augustus at Narni in Umbria, Italy