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Lonely Planet: The worlds leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planets Florence & Tuscany is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience art-lover heaven at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, tempt your taste buds on a food tour around Tuscany, and climb San Gimignanos medieval towers - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Florence & Tuscany and begin your journey now!
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- Covers Florence, Siena, Central Coast, Elba, Apuan Alps, Lucca, Pisa, San Gimignano, San Minato, Chianti, Arezzo, Garfagnana, and more
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Florence & Tuscany
With its lyrical landscapes, world-class art and a superb cucina contadina (farmers kitchen), the Tuscan experience is perfectly in symbiosis with the land.
Tuscany has a timeless familiarity with its iconic Florentine cathedral dome, gently rolling hills dipped in soft morning mist and sculptural cypress alleys. But then, this regione in central Italy is postcard material. Golden wheat fields, silver olive groves and pea-green vineyards marching in sharp terraced rows on hillsides form a graceful prelude to soul-soaring medieval hilltop villages, mountain ranges and fecund forests in the north, and a garland of bijou islands beaded along the coastal south. Get out, explore, hike and ding your bicycle bell, as this rousing landscape demands.
Ever since the Etruscans dropped by to party and stayed, Tuscany has seduced. The Romans stocked their grain silos here, Christians walked a medieval pilgrimage route, and Napoleon plundered art (and suffered terribly in exile in a neoclassical villa with fig trees and sea view on the island of Elba). Florences historic churches and monuments were a key stop for British aristocrats on 19th-century Grand Tours and remain so. And at sundown when the river Arno turns pink, whether you like things old-fashioned and simple or boutique chic, this handsome city obliges.
No land is more caught up with the fruits of its fertile earth than Tuscany, a gourmet destination where locals spend an inordinate amount of time pondering and feasting on food and wine. Local, seasonal and sustainable is the Holy Trinity and Tuscans share enormous pride in the produce quality. Tuscan travel is grassroots: from wineries to taste blockbuster wines like Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano; to a family-run pastificio tradizionale where artisan pasta is cut by hand; or road trips in quest of the finest bistecca alla fiorentina (chargrilled T-bone steak).
Then theres the art. The Etruscans indulged their fondness for a classy send-off with exquisite funerary objects, and the Romans left their usual legacy of monumental sculptures. But it was during the medieval and Renaissance periods that Tuscany struck gold, with painters, sculptors and architects creating world-class masterpieces. Safeguarded today in churches, museums and galleries all over the region, art in Tuscany is unmatched. Edgy street art in Florence and countryside sculpture parks bring the art scene right up to the 21st century.
By Nicola Williams, Writer
Tuscany won me over at a farm in the Garfagnana. We were tucking into dinner when the farmers wife rushed in mid-secondi and urged us to join her in the stable to watch a calf being born. Later, when she joyfully declared, Well call her Kaya after your daughter!, I was speechless. So my nine-year-old now has a cow in Tuscany and I the honour of being privy to yet another intimacy of this wildly diverse, soulful, earth-driven region. This (and its truffles, Florence,
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