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Antinori nel Chianti Classico
, Bargino, Chianti
Designed by Florentine architect Marco Casamonti and opened to great acclaim in 2013,
this stunning wine estate features an all-glass tasting room suspended above barrels in the
ageing cellar.
The owners of the acclaimed La Bandita rural retreat in the Val d'Orcia have remodelled a
Renaissance-era convent in Pienza's Unesco-listed historic centre to create an alluring
boutique hotel and cafe.
After taking almost three decades to restore, Lorenzo Ghiberti's gilded brass doors from the
Battistero di San Giovanni are now on show in the
duomo
's revamped museum.
Fashionistas are flocking to the fashion label's super-chic museum and caffè, which were
recently unveiled in the 14th-century Palazzo della Mercanzia on Piazza Signoria.
In 2004 archaeologists unearthed the exciting cache of 498 gold Roman coins that are on
show in this new museum on Sovana's Roman-era main street.
Take a guided tour with a marquis and his wife in Europe's largest private walled garden.
Cementing the town's foodie credentials is this newly opened office, which can help with
tastings, tours, cellar visits, wine itineraries and other tastebud-tempting activities.
