Tuscany has many different facets, starting from Versilia coast that alternates broad sands beaches with rock cliffs and the splendid countryside with its wide panoramic views and vineyard-covered hills.
If you have seen my last posts about the Medieval town of Montepulciano and San Martino bio factory you will have noticed how green and fertile the valley is.
There is another place nearby, with a very different landscape, characterized by the ochre-tinged soil used by Renaissance artists to create the famous Sienna yellow. It is called Crete Senesi (means Sienese Clays) and sums up everything that is quintessential and symbolic of Tuscany. Gently curving roads lined by tall cypress trees, tiny rural villages, magnificent views and small houses that stand lonely on the top of the hills, everything that you have ever associated with this Italian region is here.
We visited it last summer while we were travelling to the South and spent the night near Pienza, which is undoubtedly the most fascinating town in Tuscany and a mandatory visit for any tourist worth of its name. The day after we also stopped in the suggestive Sorano, a town built on the top of a tuff rock, which on the opposite, is far from the usual tourist trail.
Tip: If you are near Pienza check out La Fonte restaurant. It offers super delicious food in the quiet and romantic atmosphere of a farm house.
Do you like this part of Tuscany?
Beautiful pictures! Love the cypress trees. I also love any picture with doors!
Thank you, beauty! I was obsessed with these trees. I have seen them so many times on postcards and movies that I wanted to find them all 😀
Doors and trees but no stripes come on Gabi…I jest with you ..great pics 🙂
Thank you Carol 😀 I almost believed you :):):)
Going to photograph in Tuscany next month… Thanks for tips and inspiring photos!
Wow, can’t wait to see you photos, Anna!