Belvedere is a special house. If your eye has so much as brushed across posters or calendars of Tuscany, you probably know the house already. It stands on a dune-like hill amid the pale sweep of the ...

The history of olive cultivation in Tuscany reaches far beyond what many visitors might imagine when they see the postcard-perfect hillsides dotted with silvery trees. While the documented expansion ...

Any visit to Italy means food – and lots of it. Add on wine and you’ve got a holiday that’s guaranteed to be memorable, but might add a few centimetres to your waistline. Plus, when you’re spending ...

When Luca Dalco visited Tuscany in the summer as a child, he found himself utterly terrified. Whisked away from the bustling city of Rome once a year, the ominously silent Tuscan hills filled him with ...

From a barren wilderness, the valley was transformed by Origo and her husband into a thriving farm, crowned by one of Italy’s loveliest landscaped gardens, where now, some 80 years later, Origo’s ...

The full moon was rising over a row of cypress trees when I arrived in Tuscany. Jasmine perfumed the night air. I fell asleep to the song of a nightingale and awoke to a trill that was unmistakably ...