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[Regions of Italy]
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Italy is relatively tiny -- only the world's 70th largest country -- and yet is home to over half the planet's registered artworks. Still, despite the plethora of landmark statues, Renaissance paintings and ancient artefacts that abound everywhere you look, it is the country's humble, unsung beauties that stay in our mind's eye after we return home. The simple hillside villages and their cobblestone lanes; the rolling fields dotted with black-green cypress stands and silvery-green olive groves; the abandoned churches; the commonplace butcher shops and bakeries and fruit stands; the lovingly tended family grapevines whose vintages will never win an award but will always warm the heart as they go down..... These are the joys of Italy, and nowhere are they more abundant than in Tuscany. Here are a few snapshots from our own forays down every single dirt road and into every stone village in the region.

Olive Trees & Grapevines, Tuscany's Unofficial Logo

Village in the Chianti

Val D'Orcia

Val D'Orcia

The Chianti

The Rooster, Trademark Symbol of the Chianti

Near San Gimignano

Olive Trees and Juniper Trees

Cypress Trees

Belltower with Rosemary and Cypress

La Vendemmia, Harvest Time

Grapes on the Vine

Grapevines & Mt. Amiata

Outside Lucca

Some Tuscan's Backyard

The Ancient Roman Gate to Saturnia

Butcher Shop in Pietrasanta

Sant'Antimo hasn't changed much since Charlemagne stopped by
on his way home from the Crusades

Medieval Abbey

Brickwork Ceiling of the Medieval Abbey

Pienza, Hilltown Par Excellence

Pienza is a Perfect Renaissance Town

A Perfect Renaissance Cat

The Green Hills of Siena

Creti Senesi, The Clay Hills of Siena

Miraculously, this church survived a World War II
carpet bombing that razed everything around to the ground
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