Christmas holiday season is on the way and most of us start to seek ideas and advices both for presents and events to celebrate the New Year. The night of December 31st, that in Italy is also called “St. Sylvester Feast”, is celebrated in Tuscany with many open-air concerts, festivals…
Look at this picture of men whose faces are covered by wired cowls, in the darkness lighted up by torches: guess where we took it. In Sicily? In Andalucia? Actually, this style of Easter Week processions are typical of Southern Italy and Spain, but in this case, we didn’t have…
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…
