Taste Chianti Classico in the hills

Rolling cypress hills, Renaissance cities and Sangiovese wine — Tuscany is the Italy of the imagination

Sample one of Italy’s most prestigious reds in its Tuscan hill town, aged at least five years

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

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

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