This restaurant has been suggested by many of our guests! Unfortunately we have not yet been there but every spring we plan to go:-)) … maybe this year?! Trattoria Latte di Luna Via San Carlo n. 2/4 Ph:  0578 748606  Handy: 338 3266791 Closed on Tuesday

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Pecorino Cheese is typical of Pienza.  I love it very much, both the Marzolino almost fresh and the most aged. Before coming here I didn’t even know about the existence of this cheese.. but when I tasted it especially as starter, with honey and pines or some particular marmalade, I appreciated very much and [...]

When I first went to Pienza, it was winter and a terrific wind blowed along the roads.. so I couln’t deeply appreciate the beauty of the place. The second time, it was spring.. and I found it one of the most interesting places to visit in the south of Tuscany, both because of the archistecture [...]