Discover Tuscany. Walk in Piazza del Campo, in Siena, admiring the Fonte Gaia, or discover the charm of the Loggia dei Lanzi, in Piazza Signoria in Florence, when the first shadows of the evening fall. Meditate in front of the greatness of the works of Piero della Francesca or Masaccio, born a few kilometres from here, or be enchanted by the beauty of Piazza dei Miracoli in the shadow of the tower in Pisa. The great cities of art are an indissoluble part of the history of this region, but Tuscany is much more than that. The land of the Tyrrhenoi, as the Greeks called the Etruscans ancient inhabitants of the region, as it has come to us is a mix of art, culture, popular traditions and beautiful landscapes to discover. Here coexist the quality industrial production with the most sought-after handicrafts: think of the fashion, leather goods and footwear sectors, not to mention the great manufacturing of Prato; at the same time they find space, and resist the globalization of the market, typical production of handicrafts and agriculture, accompanied by an innate tourist vocation. The Tuscan sea, from Massa to Talamone, without forgetting the islands of the archipelago, offers sceneries of rare beauty. In the hinterland the landscape is true, from the plains of Valdichiana, to the hills of Chianti, up to overcome the Pratomagno massif to meet the Apennine mountain range. The Tuscan villages, mostly of very ancient origins, have been famous since the Enlightenment century: in fact, from the 18th century onwards intellectuals and artists from half of Europe were fascinated, but paraphrasing Stendhal we could say almost "kidnapped" by the history and beauty of the palaces, monuments and sacred buildings scattered around the cities and by the harmony of a countryside still characterised by a rural economy where spaces were rationalised according to the logic of agricultural production based on sharecropping. Today the economic logic has radically changed, but walking along the roads of the Tuscan countryside will seem to take a step back in time, rediscovering those landscapes that inspired painters and poets many centuries ago. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)