I think, that Bagno Vignoni is “must” for every lover of Tuscan. It is very very small, maybe a pair of roads and a square… but, in any case, it’s a very interesting village mainly because of its main square made of thermal water. Now you can’t bath in it anymore but in medieval times [...]

Hoffmann filmed his Midsummer’s Night Dream in Montepulciano. Chiappa: Kevin Kline Titania: Michelle Pfeiffer Oberon: Rupert Everett Puck: Stanley Tucci Elena: Calista Flockart Ermia: Anna Friel Demetrio: Christian Bale Lisandro: Domicic West Teseo: DavidStraithairn Ippolita: Sophie Marceau

Walk around the square and the main road of Pienza and look for the places where Zeffirelli filmed his beautiful  “Romeo and Juliet”, already in year 1968. The film won two Oscar (best costumes and best photography) and three Golden Globe (best foreign film, best female promise, best male promise)

At Sant’Anna in Camprena, a former Olivetan Benedictine monastery from the 15th century – only 6 kilometers away from Pienza, the Italian-American director Anthony Minghella shot some of the most famous scenes of his movie The English patient, nominated for 9 academy awards. Now the monastery is an agriturismo:  in the monastery’s refectory the visitors [...]

Do you remember the beautiful scenes of the Gladiator, when he imagines the Elysian Fields? It is the Orcia Valley, Tuscany, Italy. The Orcia Valley is always wonderful and continuously changing: you find it like in the movie, with golden cornfields, normally in june, when the grain is ripe in the fields but not yet [...]

If you go to Pienza, I suggest you also to go to Monticchiello (municipality of Pienza): it is at around half an hour from Pienza and the road is worth doing, because of the beautiful panoramas and for Monticchiello itself. It is a little medieval town on a hill: from here you can see a [...]