Val d'Orcia & Pienza (Tuscany tour)

Val d'Orcia · Pienza

Cypress lanes and rolling hills, film-set Tuscany in a day

⚠ Tour or car only, realistically

Hours

Open countryside, no set hours. Tours usually leave around 7–8am and reach Florence around 5pm

Tickets

No entry fees for the towns or valley. Tour prices vary by operator; check the booking page

Address

Measured from Piazza Pio II, the main square of the hill town of Pienza in the middle of the valley

This is the Tuscany of postcards: wheat fields and pasture rolling like waves, a lone farmhouse on a crest, a line of cypresses snaking down to it. The landscape has been on UNESCO's World Heritage list since 2004. Tours typically stop for photos on the cypress-lined roads and at a tiny chapel on a hill, break for pecorino and lunch in Pienza, a town built as a Renaissance ideal city, then go on to the wine town of Montepulciano. A common version starts in Rome, takes in Civita di Bagnoregio and the Val d'Orcia, and drops you in Florence in the evening, doubling as your transfer.