Tuscany

My home region of Tuscany remains one of the most popular and well-known destinations for global tourism, and its excellent food and wine certainly help to maintain its enduring reputation as one of the most attractive areas in the whole of Italy.

Tuscany’s diverse landscape encompasses the rugged Apennine Mountains, the islands of the Tuscan Archipelago, the Tyrrhenian coastline, and countless mesmerising, beautifully cared-for olive groves and vineyards. Then there are the cities of Florence, Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Volterra, Arezzo and many other ancient towns and villages, which together timelessly preserve Tuscany’s incomparable cultural legacy. This is the birthplace of the Renaissance, and is synonymous with many important figures that have been so influential in the history of art and science. One cannot underestimate the great impact that this region has had on European culture in the course of its history. Petrarch, Dante, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Vespucci, Boccaccio, Machiavelli and Puccini ... these are all Tuscans.