We recently spent a week in Tuscany. We go every year to Borgo di Vagli, our place in the Tuscan hills overlooking the Val di Pierle. On our side Tuscany: on the other side of the valley Umbria. What could be more enchanting!
Each year we try to revisit old haunts and go somewhere new. This year we went back to the beautiful Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, a Benedictine monastery dating from the Fifteenth Century, and containing Signorelli's wonderful fresco cycle of the life of St Benedict.
New for us was the wonderful hill town of Montepulciano, overlooking on one side the Val di Chiana and on the other the Val d'Orcia. Below the town walls is one of the most perfect of all small Renaissance churches - Sant'Agnese - built by Antonio da Sangello the Elder.
And of course we went back to Cortona and for the first time visited the exquisite Church of Saint Niccolo.
To see all of my photos of our stay go to
Flickr
