Advice for your Tuscany tour in Montalcino The gentle valley of the Arbia river, framed by slender rows of poplars, invites one to climb up the hills culminating in the towered summit of Montalcino, fatherland of the much-prized Brunello wine. Alongside it, the land dries up into the characteristic scenery of the "crete" (clay hills), bread white, plunging down into eroded furrows and clinging to the proud, isolated cypresses atop the cliffs. And while, further east, the health-giving waters of Rapolano repair the many damages wrought by convulsive modern living, towards the south the Orcia valley completes with its severe mien.
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