The best hotels in Tuscany range from urban retreats for some of the world’s finest city sightseeing to romantic hideaways deep in the countryside, tucked amid the vines and olive groves – or, in the ...

Tuscany enjoys the enviable quality of being saturated in wine, food and scenery and the challenging part for any visitor to this bucolic slice of Italy is deciding where to spend your time. During a ...

Tuscany’s idyllic scenery suggests to the modern visitor a simple life of refinement and repose, far removed from the vulgar intrusions of urban existence. As writer Jack Smith observes in this ...

Tourists crowd the turquoise waters and pristine white sands of the Rosignano Solvay beach in Tuscany - most of them fully aware that the picture-perfect swimming spot owes its allure to a nearby ...

Some movies can get away with just being a scenery sandwich, a few fat slabs of gorgeous vistas with a sliver of plot slipped in between. Made in Italy is that kind of movie. Liam Neeson plays Robert, ...

Everyone should draw, says the artist Fiona Graham-Mackay, our teacher for the week's painting course: 'It makes people look. Drawing's about looking; it's not about expressing yourself.' I'm hoping ...

There is something that attracted me to this place the first moment I set foot on Tuscan soil in 2011. It was a “familiar” feeling, and it was instant. Something about this part of the world speaks to ...