Visit the Val d'Orcia

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

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 first 'ideal' Renaissance town, set among Val d'Orcia hills — and the home of pecorino cheese

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

Cycle the intact Renaissance walls of Puccini’s home town, ringing a maze of car-free lanes and piazzas