Category Archives: Siena and surroundings
The lovely hamlets of the Val d’Orcia
An itinerary to enjoy one of the most beloved parts of Tuscany, and admire its picturesque landscape that offers enchanting sites and picture postcard views all the year round: Spring with its intense green, Summer with long daylight hours and golden yellow fields, Autumn with its warm colours, and Winter…
The steam train TrenoNatura in Autumn 2013: here’s the programme!
“La Foce” Garden in Val d’Orcia
A few kilometres before Chianciano Terme the gently undulating hills of the Val d’Orcia come to meet the white and arid badlands of the Sienese Crete. Here, on the point where the four roads to Pienza, Montepulciano, Sarteano and Chianciano intersected and still converge, there is an enchanting place that…
Cheese factory “La Fonte”: great pecorino cheese and ricotta of the Sienese Crete
I often drive through the enchanting Sienese Crete, to the tiny village of Torre a Castello, located about 20 kilometres away from Siena, to taste and buy the delicious cheese made in this magnificent area. The landscape is impressive and heart capturing: in Spring it’s dominated by the intense green of…