Midway down the Italian peninsula, Tuscany with its hills, snowcapped mountains, dramatic cypress trees, and miles of coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea, provides breathtaking views everywhere you look. the Arno, its most famous river, stretchs clear across the region from Florence before making its way to the sea just beyond Pisa. The beauties of the Tuscany are innumerable: the typical, unique, gentle and warm Tuscan countryside proves a perfect foil for the abundance of superlative art and architecture typical of the region.
The whole of Europe is in debt to Tuscany for its extraordinary contribution to European culture. It was in Tuscany between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries that the great era of humanism and the Renaissance was born and developed, movements which radically renewed the culture and art of the time, leaving a profound and indelible mark on the common civilization of Europe. Great works of civic and religious architecture, sculpture and paintings of extraordinary artistic value, testify to the creative genius of great artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Filippo Brunelleschi. more info about Tuscany