Pienza, Italy Travel Blogs

Under the Tuscan Rain
May 29, 2007

... 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 both ...

Under the Tuscan Sun
May 30, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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 was ...

tuscany
Jun 13, 2005 (6 photos)

... . 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
Feb 24, 2008 (11 photos)

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'
Sep 21, 2008

... 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
Jun 5, 2009

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
Dec 8, 2008 (24 photos)

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 ...

Pienza and sunset
Oct 7, 2007 (5 photos)

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 ...

Pienza, tuscany region
May 9, 2007

... 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 ...

Wine/Going South
Jun 7, 2008

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 ...

Tuscany Pienza Wednesday
Aug 27, 2008 (2 photos)

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 ...

Pienza, Montalcino, Montepulciano
Aug 11, 2009

... 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 groves.  ...

Pienza
Jun 8, 2008 (8 photos)

... 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 ...