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Val d'Orcia - a marvelous landscape of never-ending hills, grain fields, and streams, with rich clay and tufa soils; the Valdorcia is today the real icon of Tuscany, a natural setting of extraordinary beauty. It has become known all over the world as the classic Tuscan landscape. Important films like the Oscar winners The English Patient, La Vita è Bella and The Gladiator were shot here , as well as Romeo and Juliet directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and most recently Under the Tuscan Sun, cementing the Val D’Orcia’s beauty in cinematic history.
The people of the Val D'Orcia area have resisted the pressures of progress and retained the traditions of the region safeguarded the relationship between man and the environment, particularly that of hospitality, which was offered to visitors particularly during the time of the great pilgrimages.
Well worth visiting: the villages of Pienza, Castelmuzio, Castiglione D’Orcia, Montefollonico, Monte Oliveto, Monticc hiello, and Bagno Vignoni.
The Val d'Orcia was recently added in the Unesco's Heritage List and is universally recognized as one of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth.
The Val D’Orcia was, and still is, seen as an ideal representation of man coexisting in harmony with nature. Images of the Val D’Orcia and its inhabitants have come to be seen as icons of the Renaissance and have profoundly influenced the development of landscape art, engineering and philosophy in modern Tuscany.
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