Greetings from beautiful, but chilly, Montepulciano, Tuscany.Hope all is well with you and your family, and Happy Valentine’s Day. Tour guide Cindy was nice to me on Sunday and gave us the day off to rest and relax in the Tuscan sun.Ok, enough of this relaxing says Cindy, road-trip!We pass this Villa right before Pienza. Is this spectacular or what?👊This area of Tuscany, Pienza, is famous for its sheep cheese. It’s called pecorino. This is a pecorino cheese shop at the areas cheese factory Coop. It’s absolutely delicious!Todays destination, Pienza, Italy!
Pienza is a very small town, less than 2,000 folks live here year round. It’s very popular with tourists, as it’s beautiful!
A hill side village, Pienza was the birthplace of Pope Pious 11. In the mid 1400’s he returned to his home village of Corsignano and seeing its poverty decided to rebuild his home village in perfect renaissance manor. In four years the village was rebuilt and renamed Pienza. Let that sink in🤔What’s left now is a true treasure of Tuscan beauty.As a pope built the village, you can imagine churchs are everywhere.Inside the cathedral, simple, but beautiful!Cathedral PienzaBeautiful!Inside the cathedral!View from the walls of Pienza.Wow!Pienza watchtower, currently closed.A little light lunch at our Villa!
Trafton’s European Adventure Part Two