INTRODUCTION

Imagine a two thousand-acre estate in the heart of Tuscany. Two Thousand acres of cypress-studded hills emerging from the early morning mist or drenched in brilliant afternoon light that sweeps across fields of poppies, sunflowers and olive groves, or the vibrant glow of sunset splashing over the villa walls where masses of rambling roses compete for description.

Imagine swimming in your own pond at dawn or horse-back riding at dusk, not to mention eating the finest Tuscan fare three times a day and never having to do the dishes! Imagine candlelit dinners accompanied by the estate's own wine, then a last walk in a world lit by a multitude of fire-flies before retiring to your room in one of our five beautiful, eighteenth-century farmhouses.

Imagine all this beauty and solitude just seven minutes outside the historic village of Buonconvento, 20 minutes from Siena, and near to the towns of Montalcino, San Gimignano, Orvieto and Perugia, and within easy day-trips to Florence, Assisi and Pisa.

Imagine you can have all this and learn something, too!

Imagine what you could write, what you could photograph.

Just imagine.