The stunning Villa La Foce is located on a hill overlooking the Val d'Orcia, a beautiful and miraculously intact valley in Southern Tuscany. Villa La Foce was purchased by Antonio and Iris Origo in 1927. They engaged the English architect Cecil Pinsent, who had previously done extensive work on Bernard Berenson's Villa I Tatti in Florence, to restructure the main buildings and create a large garden.
On his grand tour of Italy, Monty Don stops at La Foce. He discovers how, like a piece of sculpture, Renaissance gardens were created as works of art, and how a group of Edwardian ex-pats mistakenly reinforced the idea that formal Italian gardens were flowerless.

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Casa Vacanze Podere Santa Pia

Podere Santa Pia, situated in a breathtaking setting in the south of Tuscany, incorporates the perfect harmony between man and nature. This magical holiday house is located in Castiglioncello Bandini, a small village in the Tuscan Maremma, overlooking the Ombrone and Orcia valleys. An undiscovered corner of Tuscany.

Address 

Podere Santa Pia
Via Santa Pia 1
Cinigiano (Castiglioncello Bandini)
Grosseto

 

Coordinate GPS 42.870931, 11.423410