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Limiting the choice of prime sights is not an easy task in a land as rich and varied as Tuscany. Its storybook landscape is home to medieval hill towns, fabled wines and, as crucible of the Renaissance, an unrivalled collection of artistic masterpieces. Here are the best of the best.
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Sansepolcro’s best restaurant is nearly 200 years old – a homey, wood-ceilinged trattoria of Tuscan cuisine. The owner prefers to rhapsodize about what’s best in the kitchen today rather than handing you a menu, and enjoys discussing the works of Piero della Francesca.
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Old-fashioned inn serving hearty food.
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Best restaurant in a renowned culinary town. Speciality is pasta del lucumone (“Big King’s pasta”), a baked casserole of ham and three cheeses.
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Soak up Italy in style at a classy café with tables right on the Piazza della Signoria.
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Baroque gone chaotic, effusive and overwrought (18th century).
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The Franceschini family runs one of the best seafood restaurants in Italy. Excellent wine list.
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Rossi has been in the same family for four generations. They sell elegant pieces from the top names in Italian jewellery design, while their Viale Marconi boutique carries fashionable gold and silver adornments for the younger set.
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Pisa’s oldest hotel (opened 1839) has had Ruskin and Roosevelt as guests. A few rooms occupy the 10th-century tower base, while some of the Arno-side doubles can be linked to form family suites.
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Early Baroque Flemish master who adapted Italian style to Northern tastes.
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Rent sailboards, catamarans and Zodiacs, or take windsurfing and sailing courses.
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Hotel price categories
For a standard, double room per night (with breakfast if included), taxes and extra charges.
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Restaurant price categories
For a three-course meal for one with half a bottle of wine (or equivalent meal), taxes and extra charges.
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