Visit Lucca

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

A perfectly preserved medieval city built around the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo, home of the Palio

The "medieval Manhattan" — a Tuscan hill town bristling with stone tower-houses, 14 still standing

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