Tuscany

The cypress-lined road to a Sienese farmhouse at dawn. The way Chianti looks in late October when the vines have turned and the olives are being pressed. The specific quality of light in a Florentine piazza at six in the evening, when the tourists have retreated and the stone exhales the warmth of the day. Tuscany is Italy's most documented region and still somehow resists being fully known — partly because it is genuinely various (the Maremma coastline and the Lunigiana mountains and the Crete Senesi are all Tuscany and all completely different), partly because it rewards the slow visit over the fast one.Our Tuscany coverage goes deep into the landscape, the food, the wine, and the art — with the specific detail that turns a good holiday into a lasting reference point.