Climb 251 spiralling steps up the world's most famous architectural mistake — tilting since 1173
The Renaissance in one walkable city: Michelangelo's David, Brunelleschi's dome, and the Uffizi
Rolling cypress hills, Renaissance cities and Sangiovese wine — Tuscany is the Italy of the imagination
Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Leonardo, Raphael and Caravaggio under one Renaissance roof in Florence
Sample one of Italy’s most prestigious reds in its Tuscan hill town, aged at least five years
Drink the Black Rooster wine where it’s made — among vineyards and castles between Florence and Siena
Feel the madness of a bareback horse race round a medieval square, 90 seconds of pure tribal passion
Share a colossal T-bone steak, charred rare over wood — Florence’s carnivore centrepiece
Stand before the 5.17 m marble David — Michelangelo's flawless Renaissance colossus in Florence
Bathe in warm sulphur water cascading over natural limestone terraces in the Tuscan countryside
The "medieval Manhattan" — a Tuscan hill town bristling with stone tower-houses, 14 still standing
A perfectly preserved medieval city built around the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo, home of the Palio
Cycle the intact Renaissance walls of Puccini’s home town, ringing a maze of car-free lanes and piazzas
The quintessential Tuscan landscape — lone cypresses, golden wheat ridges and farmhouses on the hills
The first 'ideal' Renaissance town, set among Val d'Orcia hills — and the home of pecorino cheese
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