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Top Hotels in Pienza
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Relais Il Chiostro Pienza
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Corsignano Pienza
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Relais La Saracina Pienza
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Arca di Pienza
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La Bandita Pienza
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Travel Blogs from Pienza, Italy
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Under the Tuscan Rain
... literally (okay, big guy up there?). Looks like we have brought a little bit of Seattle rain with us here to Pienza, Italy, which is in the Tuscan countryside. Luckily, sitting inside and relaxing was just what we needed. Jeanine and I ...
Under the Tuscan Sun
... look cushy though and has air conditioning. We lodge for the first two nights in a quintessential hilltop city-state, called Pienza, with its central plaza (piazza), large main church (duomo in major cities) and high walled perimeter. Ancient Italy ...
Picnic in Pienza
Armed with a bottle of red wine, some cheese and chicken pate, we arrived in Pienza and browsed the shops looking for a loaf of bread. It took a bit, but we got our loaf and found a park bench overlooking vinyards for our picnic lunch. We had many ...
tuscany
... . we went to Multepulciano where the Contucci vineyard is located and were able to taste and buy local wine. Later we went to Pienza which is famous for it's cheese. One of the stores was full of shelves filled with blocks of different beautiful moldy ...
Under the Tuscan Sun
On Sunday we visited two of the most beautiful and famous Tuscan hill-top towns...Pienza and Montepulciano. After our three hour journey of winding through the rolling hills we first arrived in Pienza. Pienza was built in the 1400s by Pope ...
Cretaoile Dreamin'
... to another hill town for a day trip. We spent a day in the pouring rain in Montecino. The town was a little bigger then Pienza and had a fortress to seek shelter in from the rain. We also had another fantastic zuppa lunch. Mostly we walked around and when ...
Day 25- Summer
NORTH TRIP BEGINS!!! The trip we have all talked about and waited for was now upon us. First stop: Pienza. Woke up early and started to four hour drive, but we were cool with it because we had a full bus just for the 23 of us so we were all ...
Pienza
Pienza, is this beautiful little town on a hilltop in the South of Tuscany. Here we stayed in a newly renovated but old monastery. It was great. We had a tour of Pope Pius summer home, enjoyed great Tuscan food, did a little bit of shopping and, probably ...
From medieval to renaissance
... another. I think that today is our favorite so far as we crossed over from medieval to renaissance with a visit to Pienza, possibly the first medieval village to be rebuilt in the new humanistic morality and urbanism of that time. Pienza is ...
From Pienza to Montichello
... - Learned how to make a frittata (with roasted red pepper, cheese and a buttery crust!) - Hiked the Italian back country from Pienza to Montichello (10 glorious uphill kilometers) - Drank wine, ate pasta for lunch. Drank more wine. - Took a nap in ...
Pienza and sunset
After we left Montepulciano we went to the next hilltop to visit, Pienza. A very small town with Renaissance beauty everywhere you turn. The most wonderful thing here is the walkway all around the outside of the town on the mountainside wall! It is just ...
Field Trip (even if it is a little late!)
... , so I only remember a "limited edition" of the drive! I kept falling asleep! Surprise, surprise!! haha. Anyways, driving to Pienza was neat because it's truly in the heart of Tuscany. And let me tell you, Tuscany is spectacularly beautiful. Looking out ...
Pienza, tuscany region
... a very charming young man; we will call him Guisseppe, who translated for me. We had to take a bus to Montepulciano and then another to Pienza. It took about an hour and a half to get there by bus due to wait times but we finally made it and it was ...
Pienza - Val d'Orcia, Tuscany
... beauty, thanks to the vision of Pope Pius II who was born here and who completely redesigned the centre of Pienza into a model Renaissance town. According to sources (Wikipedia!) the architect, Bernardo Rossellino, was commissioned to build a Duomo, ...
Wine/Going South
So the wine/olive oil tasting at CnC's apartment was very exciting. Another example of CnC going way beyond my expectations. We had 5 different wine, increasing in price and quality and beginning with an 8 euro bottle. The first three ...
Day Trip to Pienza
Silvio Piccolomini, who became Pope Pius II, was born here in the 15th century and strived to turn it into the ideal Renaissance town. It was built on top of the medieval castle of Corsignano, which marked the border between the possessions of ...
A Rest Day in Pienza
Italy Day 7 On day 7 we traveled from Murlo to Pienza. The day started with a quick trip to a Abbazia di Monte Oliveto, a working abbey. There we got a tour of the abbey and then had lunch at the restaurant in the abbey. The abbey had hallways around a ...
Tuscany Pienza Wednesday
Tuscany Pienza Wednesday Another long day with another underestimated mileage. They must be taking the straight line distance between towns. Ignoring the zig-zags of the gravel tracks and more importantly the up-downs. Since these medieval Sienese people ...
R & R at Il Casale
After a much longer than expected drive from San Gimignano to southern Tuscany we finally reached Il Casale (campervans, children, no local map, hot weather and longer than expected winding scenic roads do not mix!). Il Casale is situated on the very top ...
Pienza, Montalcino, Montepulciano
... this area and that ash from this volcano is what contributes to the fine taste of the Brunellos. We then went to Pienza, which was also very beautiful. All these towns are perched up on hills, overlooking the vineyards and olive ...
Pienza
... our hotel in Pienza. It is the same hotel in which I write from now and is actually a very nice accomodation. Pienza is a very small town in the beautiful Tuscan countryside, known for its superior wines. We walked around town a bit and ...
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