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Sunset over rolling hills with cypress trees in Tuscany, Italy, creating a serene landscape view.
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Pecorino di Pienza: The Sheep’s Milk Cheese of the Val d’Orcia

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The Val d’Orcia — the landscape that surrounds Pienza and gives the cheese its character The Val d’Orcia south of Siena is one of the most distinctive landscapes in Italy — wide clay valleys, rolling hills, isolated farmhouses, rows of cypress trees on ridgelines. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape and the […]

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Sunset over rolling hills with cypress trees in Tuscany, Italy, creating a serene landscape view.
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Montalcino Wine Tour from Florence or Siena: Brunello, Rosso, and the Val d’Orcia

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The Val d’Orcia south of Siena — Montalcino sits on a ridge above this landscape Montalcino is a small fortified hill town in the province of Siena, sitting on a ridge at 564 metres above the Val d’Orcia. It takes about two hours from Florence and one hour from Siena by car. For most of

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