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Pienza is a renaissance town near Siena, and it’s one of the beautiful hill top towns of the entire Tuscany. It was built by the order of Pope Enea Silvio Piccolomini in 1558 on top of the medieval castle of Corsignano, which marked the border between the possessions of Siena, Florence and Orvieto. Thanks to its position (in a panoramic position overlooking the Orcia river valley) Pienza was of great importance during the Middle Ages. 
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Relais Il Falconiere Hotel Cortona is an elegant residence, built in 1600, located between Umbria and Tuscany in the beautiful countryside of Cortona. Place for complete tranquillity, where the senses are treated to sumptuous flavours and fragrances, exquisite natural and man-made beauty. Nearly all of the frescoes, architectural features and decorative works.
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Amedei is a boutique confectionery in the Pisan village of Pontedera, Tuscany (Italy). No place in the world takes chocolate making as seriously as Amedei Factory.
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The Apuan Alps (Italy) are marble mountains with a naturalistic jewel, protected by a regional natural park, an ideal destination for nature-lovers.  The picture displays an Italian village of Trassilico crowns a mountaintop in a region of Tuscany north of the city of Lucca.
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Borgo Santo Pietro Villa is a spectacular place located in the Tuscan hillside, not so far away from Florence and Siena, Italy. The villa is dominated from the 13^th century and has 13 acres of enchanting gardens. A resting place for wanderers on road to Rome 800 years ago, this ancient place continues to provide asylum to its guests today.
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The UNA Hotel is located in the historical and truly Florentine area of San Frediano, near the Lungarno and the Vittoria bridge. From here you can reach the city centre very easily in 20 minutes on foot. This this is an excellent starting point to visit other touristy villages in Tuscany like Siena, Pisa, San Gimignano and Lucca. It is within walking distance from Ponte Vecchio, Uffizi Gallery, Piazza della Signoria and Santa Maria Novella. New emotional expression for a Hotel planned to surprise guests with its extraordinary design realized in the 84 rooms and in the public areas of bar, restaurant and conference rooms. The hotel evocating the ancient Florentine spirit of hospitality in a captivating, ironic and breathtaking harmony of forms and colours.

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Florence is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. From 1865 to 1870 the city was also the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The city is often considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and was long ruled by the Medici family. Florence came under the sway of the Albizzi family, bitter rivals of the Medici. The fact that the Medici were bankers to the pope also contributed to their rise. Lorenzo Medici was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli and art created by such sculptors as Donatello, Giambologna. The burial place of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa has been located in her home town, Florence.
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