TY - BOOK AU - Bentley,James AU - Palmer,Hugh TI - The most beautiful villages of Tuscany SN - 9780500289976 U1 - 945.5009734 23 PY - 2012///, c1995 CY - London PB - Thames & Hudson KW - Villages KW - Italy KW - Tuscany KW - Pictorial works KW - Tuscany (Italy) N1 - First published: 1995; "With 287 illustrations in colour"; Bibliography: p. 215; Around Florence and Lucca -- Around Arezzo and Siena -- The south N2 - The elegance of Tuscanys grand cities is found on a more intimate scale in its numerous small towns and villages, the most charming of which are celebrated in this revised, compact edition of the bestselling book. Thirty-six villages from all over Tuscany feature here, from those clustered around the great cities of Lucca and Florence, which produce some of the finest olive oil and are home to some of the world's greatest works of art, to the Chianti region and the valley of the Orcia, devoted to the cultivation of aromatic herbs. The vivid, highly descriptive accounts of each village are accompanied by page after page of marvellous colour photographs; Travel; Photographs ER -