Val d'Orcia
Regions
Each region has its own character
Val d'Orcia Regions
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Pienza
The Renaissance ideal city on a hilltop: one harmonious main street, the best pecorino in Tuscany, a papal palace with a hanging garden, and a panoramic walk that looks out over the Val d'Orcia to Montalcino.
Montalcino
The hilltop wine town: Brunello in the fortress, Rosso at the enotecas, vineyards visible from every terrace, and the quiet confidence of a place that produces one of the world's great reds.
Montepulciano
The largest and most dramatic Val d'Orcia town: a main street climbing steeply to a Renaissance piazza, underground cellars aging Vino Nobile in tufa caves, and the energy of a place that functions as a real town, not a museum.
Cypress Roads & Countryside
The landscape between the towns that is the actual UNESCO World Heritage Site: cypress avenues disappearing over ridgelines, the lone chapel between two trees, thermal springs in a valley, and the Tuscan countryside that every photograph tries to capture.