Vast fields of sunflowers, sprawling pine trees and slim cypresses, as well as vineyards ... this typically Tuscan landscape is the result of an intense interplay of the condition of the soil ...

wooded hills – is not always the iconic Tuscan landscape (cypress, vine, olive) of popular imagination. Chianti is a known name, a brand that sells; a region whose history of early expat ...

The marriage of Tuscan landscape and the Holy Land is the happiest marriage in art. Will these cypresses grow in our gardens? In the early 1970s two evergreen Italian cypresses framed the entrance ...

Stay in historic hotels in city centers, at simple pilgrim hostels, or at cozy agriturismi (farm stays) amid the iconic Tuscany landscape. Pointy cypress trees? Check. Rows of undulating grapevines?

Around me, cypress trees creaked ... of silence suggested a landscape that had gone into hibernation. Forget the magazine covers that promise “The Undiscovered Tuscany!” ...

a region of Tuscany that feels much like the land that time forgot. South of Siena, Val d'Orcia is a time-furrowed landscape, ...

It stands on a dune-like hill amid the pale sweep of the Val d'Orcia landscape, closely set about with cypress trees but otherwise alone, master of all it surveys. It's just a Tuscan farmhouse ...