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The Tuscany's Views day tour explores the region called Val d'Orcia, and specifically, the Siena's Clays (Crete senesi), located Southeast of Siena. This is a region of high quality wine and rich with ancient abbeys and castles, whose roads were travelled by Christian pilgrims on the way to Rome.
The excursion's main focus is to have you discover and embrace the Tuscan landscape with its colours, spirit and tastes.
The first stop will be in Asciano that stands in the extraordinary land of countless clay hills called "crete senesi", in the southern part of the province of Siena, and the heart of what once was the Sienese Republic; you will visit a secret roman pavement , maybe related to the ancient thermal buildings.
Siena's clays are white, brown or ochre cliffs and sometimes the gold colour of wheat before harvest time and are topped with the characteristic solitary trees beaten from the wind. From the solar brightness of the Clays to the red bricks of Monte Oliveto Maggiore Abbey, the real spiritual heart of this territory, a land civilized yet wild at the same time. You'll visit the Monastery to see the frescoes from the Stories of San Benedetto da Norcia painted by Luca Signorelli and the Sodoma.
You will enjoy a typical and excellent Tuscan lunch in a Restaurant. Finally your taste buds will be satisfied further in Montalcino, a little town mindful of a warlike Middle Ages, in which its wine Brunello is considered one of the most renowned in Italy. Here you'll taste a very good Brunello wine.