Driving from the Florence airport to the small town of Casole d’Elsa in the heart of Tuscany feels like traveling deep into a landscape painting of rolling hills dotted with cypress trees and stone ...

This 18th-century farmhouse known as Ferranesi balances rustic charm and contemporary interiors with wide views of the gorgeous countryside just south of Siena, an area called Crete Senesi. Nestled ...

On the west coast of the Argentario promontory in Tuscany, this wonderful property was originally a farming estate consisting of a main house set around a courtyard, several outbuildings, around ten ...

Despite its name, Hotel Follonico is not a hotel in Italy, at least not in the usual sense. It’s a six-room country house tucked away in the quiet hills of south Tuscany, near Montepulciano and Pienza ...

'They don't do time in Tuscany', jokes my friend Adrian, as we loiter in a deserted village, waiting for the local grocer's to open. This entire region closes down mid-afternoon for a lengthy siesta.

Stephen Lewis and Christian Scali met the old-fashioned way, as Scali likes to call it: at a Starbucks in Los Angeles’ West Hollywood neighborhood. It was spring of 1997, and Scali, a law student, was ...

The rolling dawn mist clears to reveal medieval hilltop villages shimmering in the early August morning sunlight and vineyards so pristine they look as though they’ve been groomed with a fine-tooth ...

It is not breaking news that buying a property in Oxford is an expensive business – but, as it goes, it is actually cheaper to purchase a farmhouse in Italy than a flat in the city. A quick search on ...