Bests from Tuscany
| Includes works by Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio. |
| Built by Filippo Brunelleschi, best-known site and crowning architectural jewel of Florence is the domed cathedral of the city, Santa Maria del Fiore, known as The Duomo. |
| Originally built for a banker by the name of Luca Pitti in 1457 but when he went bankrupt the Medici family took over the palace and made it into their official residence. |
| The heart of the Piazza dei Miracoli is the Duomo, the medieval cathedral, entitled to Santa Maria Assunta (St. Mary of the Assumption). |
| The cathedral’s valuable pieces of art including The Feast of Herod by Donatello, and works by Bernini and the young Michelangelo make it an extraordinary museum of Italian sculpture. |
| This sloping brick piazza is one of Tuscany’s most famous squares, it’s a museum celebrating maestros of Gothic art. |
A medieval fairy-tale town with stone towers and majestic fresco covered churches surrounded by vineyards. | |
| Chianti is an area of Tuscany, Italy made famous by the red wine of the same name. It has much to offer for a visitor interested in wine, food and natural beauty. Many of the wineries are open for a tour and a tasting, and some offer accommodation services as well. |
| An elegant city of opera and arcaded Romanesque facades, medieval towers matched with 16th century barricades are now domesticated as small parks. |
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Home to the second greatest wine of Tuscany, Montepulciano features the Palazzo Comunale, Michelangelo’s tribute to Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, as well as the ancient Palazzo Bucelli which is embedded with Etruscan urns. |
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