Bucket List Trip Getaway under By Joan Cohen


Panorama of the rolling, unforgettable Chianti wine region of southern Tuscany.


Sun. And it’s true: this 23,000 kilometres square (nearly 9,000 square miles), golden triangle in central Italy holds a vast legacy of remarkable works and achievements brought forward from the past and proudly nurtured by energetic, alert generations in the present. One of the world’s great collections of painting, sculpture and architecture, from pre- and early-Renaissance periods are located here. Te calming but potent splendour of its landscape serves in many ways as the rural match to this


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uscans are of this time; they simply have had the good instinct to bring the past along with them. So explained American writer Frances Mayes in her longtime best-selling Under the Tuscan


artistic offering, marked in large part by a continuum of low-rolling hills melded with sturdy, dark-green cypresses, silvery-green olive trees and endless stretches of suspended grape vines. Te rhythmic, elegance of the Italian language, the sim- ple perfection of the cuisine, local wines that tantalize the tastebuds, the romance of the music and literature all im- merse the traveller mind, body and soul within this cultural paradise. It was, of course, Florence, in north-central Tuscany, the


region’s capital, that was home to towering artists and ar- chitects, an amazing number of whom made that city the undisputed world leader in its holdings of Renaissance art:


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