Tuscany has a timeless familiarity with its gently rolling hills dipped in soft morning mist and sculptural cypress alleys. Golden wheat fields, silver olive groves and pea-green vineyards inhabiting hillside terraces form a graceful prelude to soul-soaring medieval hilltop villages. Get out, explore, hike, or ding your bicycle bell, as this rousing landscape demands.

With its lyrical landscapes, world-class art and a superb cucina contadina (farmer's kitchen), the Tuscan experience is perfectly in symbiosis with the land. Weddings take place year-round in Tuscany. Snuggle next to your partner after the ceremony in front of a warm fire, visit a vineyard in autumn and watch a grape harvest, or bicycle through the Tuscan countryside and picnic on a mountain slope.